RTKBase: a GUI for your own Gnss Base Station

RTKBase 2.2.0 is out!

[2.2.0] - 2021-01-12

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  • 2.1.x to 2.2.0 upgrade could take up to 10 minutes. Please be patient.
  • After the upgrade, restart your services or reboot the base station

Added

  • New Rtcm serial service to send a rtcm stream on a serial output, like a radio module
  • RTKBase release number, receiver model, and antenna information are sent on RTCM stream (message 1008 and 1033 added)
  • GUI->Status: Button to copy realtime coordinates to the clipboard
  • GUI->Settings: You can edit the antenna info in Main service options
  • GUI->Settings: Spinners and countdown added on reboot modal window
  • GUI->Settings: Auto refresh the webpage after a reboot (fixed time duration)
  • The archive_and_clean script delete oldest archives if there is less than 500MB available.
  • The install script check if there is enough space before starting

Changed

  • Upgrade to RTKLib v2.4.3-b34
  • Pystemd updated to 0.8.0
  • Pystemd is now installed from Pypi
  • Some python module updates
  • More dependencies are installed for aarch64 platform
  • The realtime base location calculation is now using dual-frequency ionosphere correction. You won’t see the location anymore if you use a single frequency receiver.
  • Default value for archive rotation lowered to 60 days

Fixed

  • Cleaning update modal box when closing it
  • writing absolute path to python3 in rtkbase_web unit file

Security

  • Cryptography module updated to 3.3.1

Warning for radio output:

If you plan to use a radio module on uart on a single board computer, don’t forget to enable this i/o. The methods to do this on a raspberry pi varies depending on the version but here is an example with a Pi 3B+.

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