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nvarona opened this issue Jun 1, 2025 · 1 comment
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GPS RTK and Chip UM980 -> compatible NMEA #473

nvarona opened this issue Jun 1, 2025 · 1 comment

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@nvarona
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nvarona commented Jun 1, 2025

Good afternoon, I have a new personal project to create your base. I've installed a Raspberry Pi 3B+, connected an Ardusimple RTK GPS with a UM980 chip, and used your software to manage the Ntrip Caster RTKBase service. Everything is working fine. This software has configured the RTK GPS to work perfectly with the software. I've created a Python program to display information on three rotating screens via an SSD1306. The first will provide system information. It works correctly. The second and third screens provide information about the RTK GPS. I've created different types of connections to the GPS to extract the information it provides from the different services I have running. I have the feeling that my program can't read the NMEA information properly. I've tried modifying the messages to also send "GGA, RMC, GSA, GSV." And it won't let me add anything from NMEA. Is it possible to run both systems? Is the software only compatible with RTCM?

I've tried creating my own output, but it doesn't show anything:

str2str -in serial://ttyUSB0:115200 -out tcpsvr://:9000 -msg "GGA,RMC,GSA,GSV"

Could you give me some insight into where I went wrong or what limitations I have with RTKbase v2.6.3?

If it doesn't support NMEA+RTCM, would I have to read the information via the RTCM Python library?

Sorry if I'm asking so many questions.

Natxo

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Stefal commented Jun 2, 2025

Hello!

I have the feeling that my program can't read the NMEA information properly

There is no nmea stream inside RTKBase.

Is the software only compatible with RTCM?

With a UM980, you will get RTCM near everywhere inside RTKBase. If you really need nmea sentences, you should connect rtkrcv to tcp localhost 5015 and set it to compute a position with nmea output.

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