Hi all,
I looked everywhere and can’t see how to configure the portability shield so it will do something other than show number sats and accuracy.
They say it can do things like display the actual coordinates
The button doesn’t seem to yield any settings menu.
is there a way to get into rtk software and do it that way?
A bluetooth connection to a GIS is required to see the lat/lon/alt coordinates. This may seem odd, but when you need to display 9 decimal points to show millimeter level accuracy, showing the numbers on a small display is not conducive to taking measurements. It’s better to rely on the phone to record points. That said, the RTK Everywhere firmware is opensource so you are welcome to modify it to meet your needs.
They say it can do things like display the actual coordinates
Let me know where, that would be a mistake.
So WYSIWYG on the OLED display then?
I have no prob using it with SW maps and my skylark correction signal.
What does the memory card do?
I think they mentioned coordinates in a video
Who is “they”? Do you have a link to this video?
I think you might want to read through the hookup guide, especially the “arduino examples” section.
That said, the portability shield is just hardware (a screen, a navigation switch, a battery socket and charger, a power switch and a SD card socket.) It’s up to you to write the code that runs on the RTK Postcard that make all the things on the portability shield actually function.
Down side to this is the portability shield isn’t “plug and play” but the upside is you can program it to do anything you want it too, like display coordinates, or show the current time, or save your travels to a SD card for later use.
What does the memory card do?
You can log the output of the LG290P to SD.
well that’s a bummer.
I goofed soldering the header pins onto the shield, then I had to order that really good solder sucker tool to clear the holes again. I finally got it all put together nice like in the video and it doesn’t really do anything unless I program it and I hate programming.
I must be missing hookup guide stuff cause I never saw any arduino. i’ll look again, maybe someone wrote some code we can try and load to brick it.