RS2 with a phone and only source of internet data is phone 4g lte

[liudmila.slepova]

Hi @hydrocynus,

@hydrocynus

Is there a way to connect and control the RS2 unit other than with wifi so that I can turn my wifi off and use my 4g lte data from my phone to receive the RTK corrections from the base?

We recently introduced the BLE feature that allows you to connect to Reach using Bluetooth on your phone. At the moment, it’s in Beta. But you may try this out if you don’t plan to do any significant work with the receiver. Please check this topic for more info.

@hydrocynus

I also tried fieldgenius (I have a license) for Android but I cannot get it to work as I am getting an error when I connect to the the bluetooth (during the testing communication test).

Reach should work with Microsurvey FieldGenius. Have you tried following the configuration steps from our guide?

@hydrocynus

Another question would be how much data the RTK correction requires? I could get a 200mb sim card (per month) for $5.

I can’t say the exact number, but the RTCM3 messages are lightweight. I took a random log on my computer from CORS and its size is 2.1 MB. It was recorded for 2 hours.