rftop
December 24, 2025, 9:03pm
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I can’t find the correct SparkFun webpage either.
Here’s a post that’s related
@ChrisO - $5.90 is for MQTT based service which we have been told is EOL’d. New accounts will be maintained but future customers will not be given access. Also, we’ve found the MQTT based corrections to be not nearly as good as the RTCM/NTRIP corrections. RTCM/NTRIP is my recommendation.
We have baked our ZTP profile into the RTK Firmware so that users give us their device ID, we whitelist that ID and charge the user $15/month, then when a user provisions, our system handles all the NTRIP credentials, prepopulating so folks don’t have to mess about. We tried to make the user experience as simple as possible, but yes, SparkFun is reselling PointPerfect’s service. If you want to go direct to PointPerfect and get the RTCM/NTRIP service for cheaper, you can. You’ll have to copy/paste NTRIP credentials (a bit of hassle), and you may or may not be given access. Historically PointPerfect was a bit cagey about wanting to only deal with companies, not individual users, but I think they started…
doug_f:
How did you sign up?
I have multiple accounts with ThingStream. I enter the NTRIP credentials into the various Apps I use.It appears (from the linked post above) that isn’t the case when you purchase through SparkFun - for the added value of ZTP, or Zero-Touch-Provisioning.
I was not aware of that, and some of my NTRIP recommendations might not make sense w/ the SparkFun service.