Okay, I’ll admit I didn’t fully understand that the RTK facet wouldn’t work with iOS when I bought it.
So now I’m committed to buying a cheap android so I can use the SW maps app… yet I know nothing about androids, Bluetooth, or SPP protocols.
Can sparkfun provide a list of phones/tablet hardware that it definitely runs on? Alternatively, what can I look for when browsing the many android devices to know that it’s going to work? I already have the iPhone it won’t work on, now I have the facet that can’t do anything for me in the field, and I’m committing to buy a stupid android for a single app… frustration mounting, I just want this RTK facet to tell me lat/long. Lol why is this so difficult!?
Any $50 android go-phone will work…they all have wifi and bluetooth, and you can even hotspot it from your iPhone so it doesn’t need cellular activation.
iOS not providing apps is something that could be levied at Apple/affiliates
I couldn’t find a go phone that met the price criteria, but Best Buy had a Samsung Galaxy A7 Lite for $130 which was almost the cheapest thing. I’ve downloaded SW Maps and successfully paired the facet to it.
Only problem I’m trying to resolve is the elevation. I was reading off 9m elevation. I’m on the second floor of a house so that seems a bit high for ground elevation, but not high enough for sea level reference. Any guidance on this would be helpful
I’m trying to understand the elevation when I go reference my GCPs for my drone survey. Seems I have to use some correction to get it to a sea level referenced elevation
you need then a more advanced app to use for surveying like fieldgenius or carlson layout , those too apps are very advanced and let you add geoide file and have a lot of coordinates systems included . else try survey master ,it’s a free app on android maybe it will do the job