Hi All, I am a prospective buyer of a LS, and have been reading the available on-line docs and posts to see its abilities and limitations. My attraction to it is its RTK abilities in tough conditions. I hope to integrate into my tool box initially for locations, but would use its additional features over time as I become comfortable with them. My area has good cellular and RTN coverage, so for the moment I will work with out a local base.
My current setup is a custom pocketPC data collector connected to a robotic TS and NMEA GPS by bluetooth (SD1000). I rent a RTK as needed, but that arrangement will soon end. Besides being a PLS, I am a professional programmer and am not intimidated by microcontrollers, RS232, USB and other wiring/connection issues. (As an aside, I am happy to see the LS has migrated migrated from windows to LINUX.)
My current hope is to be able transfer RTK derived points to my robotic system via bluetooth (or in the worst case, SD card.)
So, finally to my question... At the moment, I see two options to transfer points from the LS to my system:
The first would be to put the NMEA stream out of the LS by bluetooth, and then process it in my collector with a rolling average for a few epochs after the LS (and me) are happy with the results, and if the average and SD look good, save it in my collector. This will work, but will slow down the collection process and require me to use both systems for every shot.
The second (and I think preferable) would be to transmit “accepted”, finished points (or groups thereof) to my collector via bluetooth. I see online screen-shots for the LS showing a “Generic Bluetooth Data Exchange” and a “Leica GSI Bluetooth Export”. I cannot find any other references to these processes, and am curious if they actually are usable, and if they they send ASCII data over bluetooth serial protocol that I can use at my end?
Thanks! Jim
My current setup is a custom pocketPC data collector connected to a robotic TS and NMEA GPS by bluetooth (SD1000). I rent a RTK as needed, but that arrangement will soon end. Besides being a PLS, I am a professional programmer and am not intimidated by microcontrollers, RS232, USB and other wiring/connection issues. (As an aside, I am happy to see the LS has migrated migrated from windows to LINUX.)
My current hope is to be able transfer RTK derived points to my robotic system via bluetooth (or in the worst case, SD card.)
So, finally to my question... At the moment, I see two options to transfer points from the LS to my system:
The first would be to put the NMEA stream out of the LS by bluetooth, and then process it in my collector with a rolling average for a few epochs after the LS (and me) are happy with the results, and if the average and SD look good, save it in my collector. This will work, but will slow down the collection process and require me to use both systems for every shot.
The second (and I think preferable) would be to transmit “accepted”, finished points (or groups thereof) to my collector via bluetooth. I see online screen-shots for the LS showing a “Generic Bluetooth Data Exchange” and a “Leica GSI Bluetooth Export”. I cannot find any other references to these processes, and am curious if they actually are usable, and if they they send ASCII data over bluetooth serial protocol that I can use at my end?
Thanks! Jim