Review for "Mosaic X5 GNSS RTK CORS Fanless Station"

Mosaic X5 GNSS RTK CORS Fanless Station
Mosaic X5 GNSS RTK CORS Fanless Station

Mosaic X5 GNSS RTK CORS Station based on Raspberry PI4 with optional PoE support. The ELT_RtkBase software support NTRIP server, NTRIP caster, TCP server and TCP client connections and data logging, RTCM3 and RINEX data formats. Direct support for Onocoy and RTK Direct services, local database for hundreds of rovers. Four different methods for base coordinates detection. Detailed documentation for entry level customers, fast and easy setup. Open source software, custom modification possible.  This product comes with 1 years worldwide warranty

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By AB Jor on 25/12/2024 Mosaic X5 GNSS RTK CORS Fanless Station 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
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Lots of features...no complaints, but in regards to Adam M's comment: Still need to get the QZSS and NavIC GNSS stuff working on the Septentrio...
Septentrio in an older document (1) indicates You can also check them using the web interface or RxControl (go to Help Receiver Interface and select the Permitted Capabilities tab); But I'm clueless about this.

This can be done at the command line in the Admin/Expert window
getReceiverCapabilities command will show sat info
setSignalTracking command
setChannelAllocation command
setSatelliteUsage command

I have not been down this rabbit hole, but commands are harmless, and commands means a person knows what they are doing.

1. Pg 43 88 : Command Line Interface Reference Guide: November 28, 2016
https://www.septentrio.com/rx_refguides/ssrc4/refguide.html
mosaic-X5 Reference Guide 2020-12-03
https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Septentrio%20PDFs/Mosaic-x5_Firmware_v4.8.2_Reference_Guide.pdf


Shop owner reply (12/01/2025):
I highly recommend using the latest firmware (currently 4.14.10.1) and the latest documentation. All documentation and the latest firmware are at https://www.septentrio.com/en/products/gnss-receivers/gnss-receiver-modules/mosaic-x5 on the Resources tab.
I will explain again that with QZSS and IRNSS. Mosaic-X5 has few channels, in fact, it can only receive 60 satellites. This is not enough for Europe. As a result, the receiver rejects low satellites. That is, you can receive QZSS when it has an elevation angle of 5 degrees or more. And you will not receive it at an angle of 1-2 degrees.

With IRNSS, everything is worse so far. Reception of ephemerides and almanacs from IRNSS has not yet been implemented, there is only reception of measurements. This means that the receiver does not know which of the IRNSS is low, which is high. Therefore, it takes up 7 channels for IRNSS. This leads to the fact that low satellites are no longer received by other systems. Therefore, I disabled IRNSS reception for Europe. If you are in India or nearby - of course, enable it.

I recommend updating ELT_RTKBase to version 1.7.5 using the "Check update" button. In the new version, in addition to a more stable connection, RxControl will also work.
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