Set up your own caster without the usage of rtk2go.com

Their website says that they have only one machine to run RTK2GO for everyone :
It is running on a common Windows 7 OS on an i5 machine with a reliable internet connection.
So I guess it should run the same for everyone, maybe with a little more ping for people on the other side of the world.

Anyway, if you never had issues with RTK2GO good for you, it suggests that this solution is reliable enough to use in the fields.

I chose to use the caster Centipede in the end, because it is dedicated to build an open NTRIP network (first in France, then worldwide). Also, their team also worked on the server side (the one you have at home) and built a flashable image for Raspberry Pi of their program called RTBKase. It made the installation even easier. Both server and caster are completely independent from each other. You can choose for example to use RTKBase for the convenience of the GUI, and RTK2GO at the same time.

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This thread was brought to my attention by one of our users. A couple of thoughts to interject in the hopes it is helpful.

RTK2go.com is just a copy of the SNIP NTRIP Caster setup for other people (often without a static IP or DDNS solution) to use. We generally prefer you obtain and operate your own copy of SNIP (our Lite (free) model has everything most folks need, our paid models cater to larger networks typically operated by commercial concerns). Our business model is selling Casters, not operating them in competition with our clients, please see our web site if you need more ‘sales’ text or you need a download.

…It is running on a common Windows 7 OS on an i5 machine

The RTK2go node is now hosted out of Ohio in on an Amazon Web Services VM machine. With 1,500,000+ connections every week the bandwidth was slowing our own Los Angles offices down. Often RTK2go is running our most current software, this changes about every 2 weeks and causes an interruption of <60 seconds, normally scheduled around UTC midnight. The uptime of RTK2go itself is well over 99.9% but individual Base Stations can be quite poor due to their own issues.

Is there a good SNIP configuration guide online? Mine’s working but I always wonder what awesome feature/setting I’m missing.

Try Release 3_06_00 Changes - SNIP Support - with 350+ articles on SNIP setup as well as NTRIP and RTCM in general it likely has your answer. Or, press press that small green “i” information icon on the relevant SNIP dialog window. Or, send an email to support[at]use-snip.com and we will assist. We provide support for Lite model users of SNIP as well as our paying users, no worries there.

Regards, DCKelley, SNIP support team

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Hi
I am looking for mounting my NTRIP caster on my dynamic IP address.
My router seam not to be able to support no-ip but I fund this:
https://dyndnss.net

From what I reed, with this I could only open the right port on my router and install a tool on my raspberry pi that would take care of the settings( DynDNS Updater Tool V3.0e).

Does someone heard about or tested this?

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Esprtk is releasing a ntrip caster from their software, can inject 1008 and host without the need for a computer. Supposed to be out in next week or so, will try it once it’s released. Assume will have to use a DDNs unless have static ip and also open some ports

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Once this is done do I just type my no-ip hostname into AOG NTRIP client where it says Broadcaster URL ? Also the mount point name is setup in SNIP correct ?

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Hi everyone.
We are ESPrtk team.
Right now you can create yourself an NTRIP CASTER server with only ESP32 here.
Hope it will help your work.

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Just found this post as I’ve been trying to spread fertilizer this week and ive only had rtk correction 20% of the time. Quite frustrating.

You can start using more stable NTRIP caster.
I use rtkdata.online

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Interesting. Besides hosting their own caster, looks like they also connect to other casters including rtk2go and offer those mount points in addition to ones directly hosted with rtkdata.online. So if you’re already using rtk2go you chould be able to sign up with rtkdata and connect your rovers through their ntrip service, and they will proxy the data from rtk2go. Should help eliminate temporary IP bans since you’re connecting to rtkdata and they are the ones connecting (just once) to each rtk2go mount point. That explains why my rtk2go mount point has shown a single client continuously for months, even though I am not using any ntrip clients currently.

I been trying rtkdata.online for a few days now I find the connection is a little better. Also I like their web page because it displays connected rovers information.

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@davidroberts30 also changed to this as he found rtk2go unreliable and he found this more stable

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yes, so far so good :crossed_fingers:
rtk2go was randomly dropping out, luckily at the time i wasnt relying on rtk i was ploughing and using it to help on headlands etc
it would go for anything from 60 seconds to a few hours

I have also been toying with the idea of setting up my own VPN so I could connect directly with base.

Tailscale makes it extremely easy to do. Free too and doesn’t use a central server.

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Is there any secret to connect to rtkdata?
I’ve been trying to change my base from Rtk2go to rtkdata but just can’t seem to make it work.

Can you see your base’s data in your rtkdata dashboard?

No nothing showing up there and says offline.

@davidroberts30


Should the address be all lowercase?
And is the / required after the mount point name?

Is it really active? Can’t find it.