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Summary of Contents for Holybro H-RTK M8P GNSS
- Page 1 H-RTK M8P & F9P GNSS Full Manual & Installation Guide V1.2 H-RTK Page | 1...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Contents Introduction ………………………………………………………. 3 Warranty and Return Policy Plug and Play Installation …………………………………… 4 Connecting, configuring and getting your first GPS lock Copying the settings to the GPS unit on your model Updating your GPS unit……………………….……………… 10 Downloading the software and firmware Uploading the new firmware to the GPS units Confirming the version of the newly loaded firmware Using U-Center for Real Time Recording and... -
Page 3: Introduction
Thank You Thank you for purchasing the one of the HolyBro RTK GPS products. When used together these GPS units can provide a far greater degree of accuracy than traditional GPS units. This manual is split into two parts; the first is an overview of the basic setup of the GPS units. In the following examples the Here M8P is used but the setup and operation of M8P and F9P GPS units are the same. -
Page 4: Plug And Play Installation
H-RTK M8P Rover Lite one and H-RTK M8P Helical or H-RTK M8P Base one A compatible Pixhawk flight controller (HolyBro PixHawk 4 or Holybro Durandal is recommended) A configured telemetry radio set so the GPS data can be continually sent to and from the flight controller while flying ... - Page 5 Connect the both the ground station GPS unit (H-RTK M8P Helical or H-RTK M8P Base) and the telemetry radio to your laptop using the supplied USB cables. On the UAV side connect the H-RTK M8P Rover Lite to the GPS port on your flight controller using the 10 pin connector cable.
- Page 6 Basic configuration For this step Mission Planner needs to be installed and running on your Laptop (https://ardupilot.org/planner/). Note that the PixHawk/Durandal flight controller and attached H- RTK M8P Rover Lite GPS unit do not need to be powered when the base unit is being configured. Open Mission Planner and go to Optional Hardware and select the RTK/GPS Inject tab.
- Page 7 As part of the search, the box on the right side of the Mission Planner displays the current star search position. Below are some of the status messages you may see: Position is invalid: the base station has not been effectively positioned yet ...
- Page 8 When your screen looks like this, store the Current location on Mission Planner: Click Save Current Pos, before opening the plan. Enter a name in the box for the save and click OK. In the following figure, you can see where you stored in the list.
- Page 9 TIP: If you use F9P Base and Rover, the orange RTK FIX led on F9P Rover Lite module will blink when receiving RTCM data. And the RTK FIX led will stay on lighting when the Rover module has entered the RTK status. Congratulations, you have successfully setup the HolyBro RTK GPS system! H-RTK Page | 9...
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Page 10: Updating Your Gps Unit
Updating your GPS units This step is optional but highly recommend for the optimum performance of your new HolyBro GPS products. To update your GPS units you will need to download and use the free u-Center software. Use at least version is V19.03. - Page 11 Uploading the new Firmware To upgrade the base station module, connect the base station module to the COMPUTER using a USB cable. To update the H-RTK M8P Rover Lite module, you need to connect the module to the USB-UART small board, and the small board is then connected to the computer. As shown in the figure below: Open u-Center software, click the connect button (in the red circle as shown below), and select the corresponding COM port for your GPS unit...
- Page 12 Select tools-> Firmware Update, and check the corresponding options in the diagram. Uninstall and select the Firmware you downloaded in the above step. For the base station use: DO_EXT_301_HPG_140_REFERENCE.ab799cc302b64f28ba73b55dfa945a04.bin For the H-RTK M8P Rover use: DO_EXT_301_HPG_140_ROVER.91bbd17d889e0fe40c2d823991595224.bin In the Flash Information Structure (FIS) File, select Flash.xml, which is located in the u-Center installation directory Under, u-center_v19.03 select flash.xml.
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Page 13: Confirming The Version Of The Newly Loaded Firmware
Click OK and wait for the firmware to upload to the GPS. It usually takes less than a minute to burn. If the writing of the file is successful then the upgrade interface status is displayed in green. Confirming the version of the newly loaded firmware Once the upload is complete you can confirm the updated version of the firmware on the module. -
Page 14: Using U-Center For Real Time Recording And Playback
As shown in the figure, the current firmware version is FWVER=HPG 1.40 REF, indicating that the current firmware version is 1.40 base station version. Success! Using U-Center for Real Time Recording and Playback U-Center can record the data of the currently connected GNSS module for later analysis and use. To do this make sure that the GNSS module is connected to U-Center (the connection mode is the same as the upgrade process above), click the bug icon below to open the Debug Message: Then, click enter view->... -
Page 15: Using U-Center For Diagnostics
Using U-Center for diagnostics You can also use the more advanced features of the U-Center software to see how the GPS units are performing and working. This can be especially useful for troubleshooting. To do this, connect the base station to the U-Center software, and check whether the Fix Mode column is displayed as TIME in the box in the upper right corner of the software interface. - Page 16 The star searching precision of survey-IN set in advance is too strict, or the base station has not completed the star searching process. Use U-Center to set up the specific survey-in. See the following section for more detail on common errors, issues and tips for operation.
- Page 17 absolute accuracy of the base station, the longer the star search time will take. The data of star search and location of base station can be viewed in the nav-> SVIN page in Message View. The base station can also be set to fixed-point mode. When the current precise geographic coordinates of the base station are known you can manually input those into the base station.
- Page 18 To make sure the current settings are saved, go to the Messages view -> ubx -> CFG (Configuration) page and click Save Current Configuration option, then click Send (as shown below). Note: The base station and Rover module must have the same Settings and use the same navigation system configuration;...
- Page 19 Base station input/output ports and protocol Settings problems The uBlox M8P chip supports a variety of input and output protocols, including USB, UART, I2C, and more. HERE+ base station module USES USB protocol for data communication by default, and gets and outputs RTK data.
- Page 20 Change the output frequency of mobile station In the default frequency of position information output by Rover module is 1HZ. If you need to speed up the position output frequency, you can enter the Messages view -> ubx -> cgf-> RATE setting and change the Measurement Period.
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