After receiving my L-Band, I followed the Hookup, YouTube but I didn’t have the CH340 driver, so I stopped. Now trying again. I downloaded the CH340 driver and then connected the L-Band to my laptop, held the power button but it doesn’t come on. My laptop chimes as if it recognizes the L-Band and then chimes off. Not getting any popups or notifications when the laptop chimes. So I open Tera Term, but still no CH340. Only seeing COM3: Intel Active Management Tech. Which is the only COM showing in my Device Manager. When I executed the CH340 drive, it said it was waiting for something. The L-Band will power on, just not while connected to my laptop. The L-Band did power on the first time I connected to my laptop and it did something. While not connected to the laptop, I power up, go to config and the Wi-Fi symbol is blinking and shows a IP address. I did try using the L-Band between the time I first connected to my laptop and now trying to connect to my laptop (Windows 10) but it was only showing at best 130mm H and the locations are 8’ off when I import the shape files into AutoCAD Map 3D (MD83F NAD83).
Does the unit power up without USB attached? Power the device by pressing and holding the power button for ~3s. I will assume the answer is yes because you said “The L-Band will power on, just not while connected to my laptop.”
Can you try a different computer?
Please note that you can use a direct WiFi connection to the RTK device to input your L-Band ‘Home WiFi’ credentials. Please see:
but it was only showing at best 130mm H
This sounds correct for normal, non-RTK operation. Once you have L-Band configured, this will drop to 20mm or less.
locations are 8’ off when I import the shape files into AutoCAD Map 3D (MD83F NAD83).
This sounds correct because the RTK uses the WGS84 coordinate system. Please see: https://docs.sparkfun.com/SparkFun_RTK_ … t-location
Thanks for your response.
Yes, it powers on, NO Cable attached.
Before your response yesterday, I tried connecting to my laptop via Bluetooth, ran Tera Term, changed baud rate 115200. While the unit (Facet L-Band receiver) was on, I plugged the USB into the unit and was able to see the CH340 driver and change the baud rate 115200. Typed “P”, 2, put my SSID in. Typed 3, put my password in. Got my keys, said 44 days left or something like that.
Much better results. However, I still need to find a way to batch convert Grid to Ground. I haven’t tried SySence yet, as it would be time consuming. The KMZ exported from SM Maps looks good in GoogleEarth. So, that may be a way as a last result.
Glad to hear it!
a way to batch convert Grid to Ground
Understood. Unfortunately I don’t know the GIS software arena very well. We generally draw the line at the receiver and try not to dip into the data collector side of things.