In the general topic areas of GNSS (with or without differential corrections), and in the area of Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) we have a long and perhaps regrettable tradition of making up a new acronym/term each and every time a committee meets. Here is a short, and very incomplete, cheat […]
Question: What is NTRIP?
“Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol,” or NTRIP, is… A protocol developed by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy of Germany (B.K.G.) around late 2004 that enables streaming of DGPS or RTK correction data via the internet over common TCP/IP methods. Here are some more informal definitions: Now […]
Question: What NTRIP Client should I use?
That is a hard question to answer without knowing more about your needs and goals. If you are seeking a very simple, yet robust NTRIP Client for use on a PC, one of the best choices would be the free product offered by Lefebure Design, LLC see the site at: […]
The Serial Streams tab
The Serial Stream tab is used to view, create, and manage the serial UART stream connections to data sources which you want SNIP to serve. A right click pop-up menu (shown above) is used to control the settings for each stream. Each serial stream has additional unique needs that other […]
Other tabs
A number of other specialty tabs also exist in the SNIP product. These represent functionality available only on the Enterprise editions of the tool. Some of these items make use of SCSC IPR and patents and may require additional fees to use. You may briefly see these tabs when the […]
The Relay Streams tab
The Relay Stream tab is used to view, create, and manage connections to remote NTRIP Caster data sources which you want SNIP to acquire data from and serve. Individual stream are color coded to reflect their overall operational up time. Various control settings for each stream are invoked with a […]
The Pushed-In Streams tab
The Pushed-In Stream tab is used to view, create, and manage in-bound connections from NTRIP Server devices which you want SNIP to serve. These are often called PUSH-In streams, these streams come to your SNIP node from remote NTRIP Servers sending you data. Your typical remote GNSS device acts as […]
Console Logging
Along the lower half of the application window, below the set of control tabs, is a scrolling textual display called the console log. Several controls provide the means to control what level of detail is shown. Below that, at the bottom of the application window, is a status display line. […]
The Status tab
The Status tab is used to quickly see the overall state of the SNIP Caster. The five status lines show the state of the server, the clients, and the status of connections in the four types of data streams. A simple color scheme is used in the text, where blue […]
Managing the Caster
Caster Management (located under the Caster and Clients tab on the right side) is used to control the internet IP address at which your SNIP Caster will provide services. Setting the values involves only a few steps: Enter the Caster IP to use. Enter the Port number to use (2101 […]
Registration Details
How can I tell if I am registered? Look at the details found in the upper right corner of the About dialog. In the Help menu, use the About… menu item. Here is a user who has not registered (and is in the one-hour at a time Evaluation mode). Here […]
Register Your Copy of SNIP
In order to use SNIP past the one hour evaluation period, you must complete a user registration. How Can I tell if I am registered? The evaluation period allows use as a “Basic” user. Additional features (more data stream connections, etc.) are available with other levels. Registration as a Lite […]
An open NTRIP caster
We maintain two open SNIP® NTRIP Casters for community use. The first is at: #1 NTRIP.itsware.net port 2101 You do not need an account or a password to connect and use it; it is free. Most public and private NTRIP Casters are “closed” in that you must first register with […]
Contacting SCSC for support
Technical Support questions regarding for SNIP are best handled by email. Please send your questions to: support@use-snip.com Of course, the better you can describe the issue you are having, the better we can reply. With just a little bit of prior notice we can also support a TeamViewer connection […]
SNIP, a high level tour
The Major GUI Tabs of SNIP Each tab is discussed in turn below in its own article. Each tab focuses on the management of a single aspect of operating the SNIP Caster. Click on an image below for further details. The Status tab The Caster and Clients tab The Serial […]
Running SNIP for the very first time
When SNIP runs for the first time on a new machine, it presents the user with a large amount of log detail which may be confusing for the first time user. This entry serves to sort out the major sections of the log during the start up phase and give […]
Installing SNIP on Ubuntu
The Ubuntu release of SNIP is no longer supported. The last installer was release 01_10 issued July 2017 and is no longer available. At this time SNIP is support on all windows platforms and OS releases from Windows 7.x onward. Most deployment run a dedicated host machine for SNIP. If […]
Saving Data into Log Files
SNIP allows you to save any mountPt stream as a raw log file on any input it gathers. These files are useful for latter post processing in a variety of ways. RINEX files are created in this way. For more details on automating the creation of RINEX files, Please see […]
Common Operating Tasks
Outline This article serves as a launching point to find the information on most common operational tasks in setting up your SNIP server. It links to other articles in the general knowledge base with further details. Setup Adding new data streams to SNIP: From another (remote) NTRIP Caster you have […]
Adding Pushed In Data from NTRIP Servers
Controlling Push-In data access Unlike relay-remote data or serial stream data, you cannot start a connection from the Caster with a button click. Rather, you must wait for the other party to connect to you. Pushed-In data [PUSH-In] is managed under the Pushed Streams tab. Pushed-Out data [PUSH-Out] is managed […]