Not an expert but have you tried a different cable? Could be using a power only cable maybe
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Thanks for your quick help…I checked and verified the cable is ok. I think I’m missing something on setting up the Pi4. How do you “open up a terminal” on the Raspberry pi to follow the Stefal instructions?
Pi4 seems to stuck on the login as well:
That second picture is your terminal. You need to login to it in order to send new commands.
Ok when I plug keyboard and pi4 connected to monitor…when i type “basegnss” it appears as “bqsegnss”? Ive verified keyboard works correctly on another computer, but for whatever reason it replaces the “a” with a “q”. anyhow I’m connected wireless through terminal now, but I can’t seem to command this line:
Where do you expect the a and q to appear on your keyboard? Are you mixing the qwerty keyboard setting with e.g. the French one? The same keyboard works differently if the keyboard layout is selected differently.
Thanks NorthernFarmer I finally got my issues figured out. If you want to see what I did here’s the link to this thread:
I don’t think your signal strength is good enough to use for a base station, and it’s maybe not even good enough to get a position at all? You should have a lot more green satellites. It can take a minute to get a position after powering up, but not much longer than that. I think you will need to improve your signal strength.
Here’s mine, and it’s raining right now.
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Maybe, but the GPS coordinates should appear??.. or RTKBase doesn’t works well with my Waveshare card?. I have moved the antenna, better quality and number of sats now but stiil no coordinates.
Hey Antonio, sorry, I didn’t realize that you were using a Waveshare and I assumed that you were using an F9P. Usually you need to have a good reading (>35dB) of 6 or more satellites in a constellation to get a good position. Its possible with less, but not always stable. That’s kind of a rule of thumb that I’ve learned over time and not really scientific.
I’m not sure what your next step should be. Are you able to use any Waveshare program to connect to the receiver and verify if it is getting a position that way?
That would sound like an antenna issue probably? Idk
Can You create some short instruction how to use tailscale, on both windows tablet, and RTKBase raspberry Pi to handle direct rtk corections - without rtk2go serices?
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I just recently set it up. I can do that this evening.
@Stefal should I put it on here, a new forum post, or fork your repo and put it in the readme?
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would be great,
thx in advance
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I think you can probably just figure it out from a few screenshots?
Do this step first because it will force you to do the signup and everything. Install Tailscale on your autosteer tablet: Installing Tailscale on Windows · Tailscale Docs
Install Tailscale on your pi: Download · Tailscale
Configure the RTKBase local Caster (use whatever username, password, mount names that you want). I am sending the default RTKBase messages which is a lot more messages that you require.
Configure AgIO. Make sure the Username, Password, Mount are all the same. When you update AgOpenGPS to a new version you’ll have to re-enter everything, so you can see why I picked the names that I did.
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Login to the tailscale website and disable key expiry, or you’ll have to re-set the keys every 6 months.
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Login to the tailscale website and set an exit route, so that other devices (computers, printer, IP cameras, etc) on the same network as the pi can be accessed remotely. This allows me to print from the tractor to my home office, RDP from my office desktop to an autosteer tablet, etc
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Install tailscale on your phone, so that you can access basegnss.local from anywhere anytime just to check the status. You can also VNC (like remote desktop) to tablets (painful on the small screen).
seems very easy.
I will check it on Saturday.
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just wondering has anyone successfully used RTKBase with Intelliview/Pro 700? Since I have it working with my ag leader display I’m tempted to unlock RTK on our seeding tractor (Pro 700) rather than renew RTX again. But not sure if there might be compatibility issues.
Problem solved. Found a program to flash the image from a tutorial. Tried that twice and neither attempt worked. Switch to Balena etcher and everything worked right away. The one that did not work was Win32diskimager just for everyone’s information.
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Yes, I’m using this ones:
I have used the Ntrip Client from QGNSS soft from Quectel and I can see the RTCM3 messages from the base. So I think they are working ok. Maybe there is some type of incompatibility with RTKBase soft.
Maybe, I’m looking for a better quality one