I current use Emlid 2+ Base Station and Rover with XPAD Ultimate. Looking to upgrade the rover to the Emlid RS3 to utilize the new tilt compensation. After communicating with XPAD support, they will NOT support and are not planning too support the tilt compensation for the RS3.
I stated that there must be significant interest from the Emlid community but the support did not budge. Perhaps it is because the are trying to only support their own tilit-compensation products (unlike Microsurvey). Apparently, MicroSurvey supports the RS3 tilt compensation but this would require retraining of field crews and adjusting the current workflow.
Please note that this is not a plug for Microsurvey or XPAD but perhaps a call to action for those using XPAD to push them to support RS3 Tilt. Also, we did not start off with them because of their lack of support for Geomax Zoom 10 Total Station (XPAD supported the integration) at that time.
Hi ! Is XPAD compatible with standard NMEA GGA data ? I think it is but may require to buy an option. To be confirmed.
If it is, then you are good to go with the RS3 compensation. You will need to use the last beta version of the Reach firmware though, allowing to stream NMEA GGA with compensated coordinates to the mobile device.
Careful… i think SurPad, SurvX, SurveyMaster and XPAD go out of their way to ensure even NMEA doesn’t work with their software for good reason… competitors.
Microsurvey FieldGenius is the only one that plays nice with most equipment including robotic total stations… good luck with that with other software. Most are JUST GNSS.
Yes, you would have to relearn things and yes different Windows tablets versus Android… FieldGenius is Android also, but still work in progress. I PREFER the Windows version much better… but the Android version is much more lighweight overall software and hardware wise. The file system of Android is screwy though finding out. Again, i live and die by Windows.
I noted on their website that they support Pseudo NMEA GGA Coordinates. Would this work? Does anyone have experience with Emlid RS3 with XPAD using this method?
We haven’t tested RS3 with the XPAD software, but as Florian mentioned, you can update to the 32 Beta 1 version and stream the NMEA GGA and GST message with the tilt compensation:
When you purchase the XPAD license you will have to purchase it with “GPS Extended” and it will pull in the NMEA stream like any other 3rd party software. As mentioned before it won’t use the tilt compensation, though you can send the tilt corrected positions in the RS3’s beta firmware. We have run the RS3 beta with XPAD, it works as expected, though we did see a bug, so use with caution.
I’d like to investigate your issue deeper. Do you see this result only in XPAD or in the Emlid Flow as well? Please send me your CSV and a Full System report to support@emlid.com.
