{"id":2518,"date":"2016-11-08T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2518"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:53:21","slug":"typical-one-node-snip-site","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/typical-one-node-snip-site\/","title":{"rendered":"A Typical One-Node SNIP Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often we get questions regarding using <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> for &#8220;just one caster in my home-office-barn-garage&#8221; applications.\u00a0 And that is precisely why we created the free <em><strong>Lite<\/strong><\/em> model of <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SNIP<\/span><\/strong> to serve just that need.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The <em><strong>Lite<\/strong><\/em> model provides a means to use your old PC <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>*1<\/strong><\/span> and whatever GNSS unit you wish to use, to create a Base Station you can put in the back room and forget about.<\/p>\n<p>Several different configurations are possible.\u00a0 You can run <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> as your own <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-caster\/\">NTRIP Caster<\/a>, with such a local devices connected (as a serial port and an <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-server\/\">NTRIP Server<\/a>), or you can <strong>PUSH-Out<\/strong> the data to another remote Caster as be being done here.\u00a0 [In fact you can do both of these in the same device]\u00a0 Your <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\">NTRIP Clients<\/a> can then connect to any at these points as you allow.<\/p>\n<p>Here is node with a simple <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/adding-serial-uart-data-streams\/\">uBlox device connected with a serial port<\/a>. It is part of a local network of low cost devices we operate.\u00a0 It does however have a good roof mounted antenna as described <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-antenna-should-i-use\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 As the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> screen image below shows, this node had been running for just under <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">16 full days<\/span> when the image was captured. The last disconnection-reconnection event (of which there had been 102) occurred one day and 18 hours and 59 minutes before.\u00a0\u00a0 This resulted in an overall connection up-time of 99.7% for this stream.\u00a0 It has served out about 480MB of raw data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2517 size-full\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP.png\" alt=\"typicalonenodesnip\" width=\"685\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP.png 685w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP-50x44.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP-600x523.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TypicalOneNodeSNIP-320x279.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also see in the console log that this <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Caster has created a <strong>PUSH-out<\/strong> connection to our <a href=\"http:\/\/rtk2go.com\">RTK2go.com<\/a> portal and is sending the local data there.\u00a0 You can connect <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>&#8216;s PUSH-out data to any other caster that will accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so here serves two purposes.\u00a0 First, because the <strong>RTK2go.com<\/strong> node lives on a public static IP with a registered domain name, it is easy for other parties to resolve the domain name and get to the data.\u00a0 Second, this data is being logged for use in an RTK research project and frankly it is easier to collect the final log data in one place and allow <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>&#8216;s <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-can-snip-be-used-as-a-data-logger\/\">FTP data logging services<\/a> to archive it for us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>*1<\/strong> <\/span>We are even informed that some folks are using old Windows XP nodes for this. Officially, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> is recommend for use with Windows 7 or newer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>*2<\/strong> <\/span>Which is why it often very problematic to run a 24-7 server or data feed from a home. Local IPS (in this case Time-Warner Cable) have no idea how to operate their own networks and quite often there are significant network disruptions for short periods of under a minute if not longer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Update (processing results)<\/h4>\n<p>A user had asked to see the results of this RTK filter using a uBlox6T unit.\u00a0 So here it is in an <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/ublox-tests-with-a-1000-meter-baseline\/\">article from<\/a> using common RTKLIB tools.\u00a0 Please <strong>note the scale<\/strong> in the lower right corner.\u00a0 This is more or less typical on what you can expect to see with very good antenna placement between two static sites of under ~10km.\u00a0\u00a0 The first of these shows the L1-only device with corrections provided from a high grade L1\/L2 survey device.\u00a0 The second set of plots uses another L1-only uBlox6T device that is co-located with the high grade L1\/L2 survey device as the base station.\u00a0 In neither of these plot sets is the ability of the L1\/L2 ionosphere measurement pair used.\u00a0 The L1-only uBlox6T used as a base station looks deceivingly good under such ideal conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/ublox-tests-with-a-1000-meter-baseline\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2536\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/uBlox6T-1kmBaselinePlot.png\" alt=\"ublox6t-1kmbaselineplot\" width=\"324\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/uBlox6T-1kmBaselinePlot.png 648w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/uBlox6T-1kmBaselinePlot-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/uBlox6T-1kmBaselinePlot-50x27.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/uBlox6T-1kmBaselinePlot-600x320.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/uBlox6T-1kmBaselinePlot-320x171.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often we get questions regarding using SNIP for &#8220;just one caster in my home-office-barn-garage&#8221; 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