We are currently using the emlid caster in a few of our projects and it works perfectly at the moment…however I was made aware by Emlid at the beginning of the year/late last year the the Emlid Caster Pro service will be coming to an end.
The problem is, we have around 5 emlid M2 base stations serving around 30 Leica machine control systems across the UK and I am struggling to find another provider/caster who can replace this once it goes offline.
Are there any recommendations on other providers, or even better can Emlid keep the Pro caster running instead? I understand we can move over to the caster plan however that would mean we would have to make multiple accounts, and be very restricted on what base station links to what account etc.
Our excavators and dozers move around to different projects all of the time so the caster oro works perfectly for us as we can just switch mount points easily etc but worried that a y other caster, if any will cause us problems. My other worry is having obsolete Emlid M2s once the caster goes offline
I guess to summarise;
Is the plan to disable Emlid Caster Pro still going ahead?
If so, is there any alternatives that may be of use to.us?
In an email trail from Kirill from January this year;
I wanted to let you know that we will be shutting down Caster Pro in January 2026.
Sure, the free version of Caster will work. I don’t have much to share at this point, but it was accepted according to the development strategy this year. We strongly believe the huge free period will ensure a smooth transition to the alternative products.
Please let me know if any other questions remain.
I have tried a number of alternatives however none seem to work as well or are as easy.
Its a real shame that its closing as its something we depend hugely on
You’re correct that Emlid Caster Pro will be discontinued. While I don’t have specific alternative caster services to recommend at the moment, I hope other users will share their experiences with caster services that will work well for your workflows.
Is the regular free Emlid Caster going to stay the same with a 5 rovers limit or is this going to change to something like a pay per rover type of plan? I assumed the free version was propped up by money from the pro subscriptions.
Hi @Gabriel_C , for one account of Emlid Caster, you can use up to 10 rovers. So far, this limit will stay. There is no plan to change to a pay-per-rover plan. Thank you for the feedback, though. I’ll add it as a feature request!
This is just the Pro service correct? The free Emlid Caster service will still be around? I ask because I use that every day, works great for correction to both rover and drone. Id hate to see that go away.
