{"id":7172,"date":"2020-08-09T22:28:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T22:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=7172"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:43:56","slug":"release-2_13_00-changes","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-2_13_00-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Release 2_13_00 Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is new in the SNIP<\/span> 2_13_00 release<\/strong> – released August 8th 2020
\n(updating the prior release of 2_12_00 of November 22nd 2019):<\/p>\n

This is the next production release of SNIP<\/strong><\/span> following the Rev 2_12 release<\/a>.\u00a0 This release contains a large number of new features as well as several minor SNIP<\/strong><\/span> corrections and improvements in response to user requests.\u00a0 It is strongly<\/strong> recommended that all deployments upgrade to this edition.<\/p>\n

This release supports both 32-bit and 64-bit installations on all Windows Platforms from Windows 7 onwards.\u00a0 It is strongly recommended that all Windows 32\/64 SNIP<\/strong><\/span> installations now update to using this release.<\/p>\n

Notable changes in this release include<\/h2>\n

Changes include several newly added features which were slated for the next major release (SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Rev3) as well as improvements in nearly every major area of SNIP<\/strong><\/span> including:<\/p>\n

General SNIP<\/strong><\/span> GUI and Console<\/h3>\n

Perhaps the most immediate change noticeable to current users is the use of an HTML table format style for presenting lists of items in reports.\u00a0 Under the hood, a more effective rendering approach is now used and results in a cleaner look to various reports.\u00a0 Table columns now align precisely when very short and very long mountPt names are being used.\u00a0 (click to enlarge the images below)<\/p>\n

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In the tab for each stream type<\/a> there is now an improved sorting button.\u00a0 The previous method of alphanumeric\u00a0 sorting has been augmented (with a drop-down control) to allow sorting by the status<\/em> of the stream, the data received<\/em> and sent<\/em>, connection count<\/em> attempts, and other criteria.<\/p>\n

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Console entries now append a small arrow symbol to indicate the stream type and\/or client connection as well.\u00a0 This is discussed further in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a result of the changes to use html table formats, the display of “past” mountPts now uses a 2-up layout for a more compact representation (found in the STATUS report<\/a>).\u00a0 The column first time seen<\/em> has been replaced with the last time seen<\/em> in response to user comments.<\/p>\n

The console entries can now be displayed with some additional time and date formatting choices, in response to user comments.\u00a0 Different ordering of Date and Month provides for more localization support.\u00a0 This article<\/a> describes the various supported choices.<\/p>\n

A calculation of average messages per second<\/em> has been added to the message counts line for the Station Details<\/a> in each Base Station slot.<\/p>\n

PFAT<\/a>\u00ae Controls<\/h3>\n

For Base Station data streams that are missing message types MT1007<\/strong>, MT1008<\/strong>, and MT1033<\/strong> (often needed for interoperable use with Trimble rovers), these can now be easily added to any RTCM 3.x data stream with any arbitrary message content desired (e.g. ADVNULLANTENNA etc.).\u00a0 This article<\/a> describes the process in more detail.<\/p>\n

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Some additional logic has been added to control when data is first sent to NTRIP Clients<\/a> during the initial Universal Decoder<\/a> & parse testing after a Base Station connection starts.\u00a0 This allows the operator to prevent sending any initial (unparsed) message information until the PFAT<\/strong><\/span> process has been started on that stream.<\/p>\n

The ability to edit various textual strings in the PFAT<\/strong><\/span> Translation<\/a> tool for Station Details<\/a> has been improved to allow the operator to enter an empty string for these details (in prior editions of SNIP<\/strong><\/span> one could only edit the text, but not set it to be empty).<\/p>\n

In the Station Details,<\/em> in antenna name<\/em> entry, a large set of over 700 standardized antenna model names has been added to a drop down selection list to assist the operators.\u00a0 Minor spelling and capitalization issues in these names may cause problems with some post processing software; the list serves to eliminate misspelling as an error source.<\/p>\n

Reports<\/a><\/h3>\n

As mentioned, various reports now use an HTML table format for a cleaner look and feel in the SNIP Document Viewer<\/a> and on web browser devices. The legacy \u2018list\u2019 table view style can also be enabled with the Preferences Dialog<\/a> if desired.<\/p>\n

There is a new IP Usage Report<\/a>\u00a0 which presents (only to the operator) a summary of which IP addresses have connected the most often to the Caster. Useful for detecting and correcting misconfigured NTRIP Client devices.<\/p>\n

There is a new PROCESS Report<\/a> which presents a summary of memory and general resource tracking of the Caster on the Host machine. This is also useful for tracking VM machine SNIP<\/strong><\/span> deployments.<\/p>\n

RTCM Message Decoder<\/a> Dialog<\/h3>\n

The following ephemerides message types are now fully decoded and displayed:<\/p>\n