Hello, I’ve been using Stefal’s rtkbase for two years and I’m very grateful for the system. My question is whether it’s possible to use Wi-Fi on an Orange Pi 3 with the rtkbase software, and if so, how do I do it?
The easiest way is to connect over Ethernet and then use nmtui over ssh to setup wifi. But the wifi on at least some of the orange pis is notoriously bad. I don’t know about the opi 3 but I have an opi zero3 that I finally put a wifi-usb adapter because the onboard wifi was worse than useless.
What is the best service for CSRS PPP now?
I also use an OPI Zero 3, which USB adapter did you use? Is it difficult to configure?
This was the one I used. No longer available but any adapter that uses the AR9271 chip should work. The one I got doesn’t have 5 GHz wifi, I don’t know if any of them do.
You might have to
sudo apt install firmware-atheros
install the firmware and it should work by default.
I have been seeing a problem over the past two days where the caster seems to be cutting out. Internet seems to be maintaining but I lose RTK occasionally and then when I check with RTK2go I see that it has reset back to start up phase.
Has anyone had a problem with this before or have any thoughts on what might be causing it?
Stop using rtk2go. Use another caster. There are multiple chooses or just install Tailscale on the pi running rtkbase and on the windows tablet, using the same google account and connect to base that way. For using this there is the Ntrip caster option on the pi.
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I’m going to attempt this set up with Tailscale. Within the RTKbase itself is there any configuration that I need to do? I haven’t used a VPN set up like this before, so I am not sure how to configure the back end on the RTKbase, I’ve only ever done the RTK2go connection via NTRIP Caster.
It’s very easy. You install Tailscale with one command inside the terminal, you can find the command on the internet.
You open the cmd or powershell on a windows pc that is on the same network as the rtkbase and enter the following ssh basegnss@192.168.0.15 (obviously enter your rtkbase ip address this is just an example) The password is basegnss! Don’t worry if you don’t see the password when typing it’s a Linux thing.
Once finished it will give a link which is then used to link a google account to Tailscale. On the tractor tablet you also install Tailscale, but for windows it’s just a regular installer and log in to the same google account.
On your RTKbase homepage you go to settings then Ntrip Caster Service, enter a username and password and the base station name.
On the tractor tablet open Tailscale and find your ip adress (this is not the same as before) and enter it into Ntrip ip, click verify them open source table and agio will show you a list of base stations which will likely be only one, enter username and password and that’s it, congratulation you are now connected via Tailscale.
Also if there is a problem with the base you can enter the Tailscale ip adress of the base into a browser and manage it. But this only works if the pc or phone has Tailscale installed.
Hope this helps, good luck