Dave L, post: 390802, member: 12092 wrote: I just checked the web and an RH16 Radio handle is $1600 with no guarantee I'll be able to get much further than my DC to Parani connection.
I had my screen on my Surveyor+ fail and it was still under warranty. The dealer overnighted me a Surveyor 2 to use as a loaner which I did for a few weeks.
When I first tried it I could not get it to connect. I had to call tech support, and I remember the guy asking what kind of handle I had and him responding "Ok that's the newest one. That's what you want to have because it'll work better with the long range Bluetooth." We got the collector and instrument/handle bonded, and I was able to use it pretty far out (I do remember having a little connectivity difficulty at around 1,400 - 1,500 ft.
I'd be curious to know any info you find out on this. I have a Leica robot with RH16 BT handle paired with the surveyor2 also. I tested the range out when I first got it and could only get 600-700' before loosing lock? Wide open road, nothing in the way. Is there a setting for different BT options or something?
JMH4825, post: 390893, member: 10876 wrote: I'd be curious to know any info you find out on this. I have a Leica robot with RH16 BT handle paired with the surveyor2 also. I tested the range out when I first got it and could only get 600-700' before loosing lock? Wide open road, nothing in the way. Is there a setting for different BT options or something?
I have a leica ts12 and a surveyor2 last week i still had a connection at 1700 feet.
but today I kept losing connection around 700 feet and putting the antenna thingy up on the gun didn't seem to make a difference.
I'm convinced it depends on radio traffic. the 1700' was on a big farm in the middle of nowhere and 700' was a commercial area of Wash-DC.
Dave L, post: 390802, member: 12092 wrote: I just checked the web and an RH16 Radio handle is $1600 with no guarantee I'll be able to get much further than my DC to Parani connection.
I feel like this post got a little sidetracked by the radio handle question. It doesn't matter what radio handle you have if you are using your Parani radio at the instrument, and from your first post we know you had the Parani on that end communicating with the instrument through the RS232 port. Therefore, the problem is most likely with your data collector. Could be settings or hardware.
Have you used the ParaniWin utility to pair the Surveyor2 with the Parani? If you need help, just ask.
Update on the issue. Well after only a day and a half with the Parani hanging off the data collector, I hit it and knocked it over breaking something on Parani. So I went back and started from scratch to connect the DC Bluetooth to the Parani at the instrument. I did some testing at a local shopping center so I could check communication distance. Out to about 750' I did not have any issue with comms. At around 1000' with just a couple of trees in the way I was still able to communicate with the robot as long as I pointed the DC at the Robot. I still need to do some more testing but for whatever reason the DC Bluetooth seems to be working better with the Parani at the instrument. I used this setup yesterday and it seemed to work flawlessly besides a couple of user errors.
