Anyone using Traverse PC on a Win10 tablet? Seems like a possible way to combine desktop and data collector... I'm also curious if TPC could receive measurements from a Leica via Bluetooth.
Love, Love, Love! those win 10 tablets. The ability to run any windows based software on a data collector is a real game changer. I've set up file syncing so that as soon as the crews log into the office network their data files automatically sync to the server, and with remote access and control software I can take control of the collectors in the field from my desk so long as they have an internet connection.
Randy Rain, post: 447736, member: 35 wrote: Love, Love, Love! those win 10 tablets. The ability to run any windows based software on a data collector is a real game changer. I've set up file syncing so that as soon as the crews log into the office network their data files automatically sync to the server, and with remote access and control software I can take control of the collectors in the field from my desk so long as they have an internet connection.
How are you doing the file syncing?
TXSurveyor, post: 447809, member: 6719 wrote: How are you doing the file syncing?
Source Forge Free File Sync. This is open source software designed for IT pro's so it takes a little bit of study to get it set up but seems to work flawlessly once you get it. I use this in the office with a 4TB external HD to backup my server. Because of the flexibility of the software I keep 2 separate backups of the server on the external HD, one that's a pure mirror of the server and one that mirrors the server with the added setting that does not delete files that disappear from the server. This gives me the ability to recover files that were accidentally deleted. This backup gets kind of junky because renamed files and folders persist as the old name as well as the new name. So when my actual server goes down I move the external HD to another machine on the network and remap everyone's z drive to the pure mirror at the new location.
RRain
Randy Rain, post: 447736, member: 35 wrote: Love, Love, Love! those win 10 tablets. The ability to run any windows based software on a data collector is a real game changer. I've set up file syncing so that as soon as the crews log into the office network their data files automatically sync to the server, and with remote access and control software I can take control of the collectors in the field from my desk so long as they have an internet connection.
Good God! You've become the Borg
You will release the data...resistance is futile
I would want to ask, if I could, what you see as the main reason(s) for the near asynchronous data sharing. I could guess it's some concern for; direct supervision, time dependant solutions (financial, or client timeline), marrying deed research with field efforts, or shouldering junior field crews with support in new areas, or some combination of the above. I've never heard of that level of interaction before.
Bricscad on a Linux tablet perhaps.
R.J. Schneider, post: 447954, member: 409 wrote: for the near asynchronous data sharing
sorry, meant synchronous.
R.J. Schneider, post: 447954, member: 409 wrote: I would want to ask, if I could, what you see as the main reason(s) for the near asynchronous data sharing. I could guess it's some concern for; direct supervision, time dependant solutions (financial, or client timeline), marrying deed research with field efforts, or shouldering junior field crews with support in new areas, or some combination of the above. I've never heard of that level of interaction before.
All of the above, typically it's because the crew arrives on site (construction) and the site super requests additional work that was not calculated prior to their arrival. Also there are times when the PC is having difficulty with some aspect of how the data collector works and I can remote in and unscramble whatever mess has been created and then have the PC watch as I go through the steps to show him(or her) how to perform that task. And then there are times that you are in a time crunch, the crew has finished collecting data that you need and still has other jobs to go to. They turn on their wifi hotspot while they're driving to the next job and I remote in and grab the files that I need (raw data, pictures etc) in this type of situation I have them take pictures of their field notes with the built in camera in the DC and grab them as well.
RRain
half bubble, post: 447955, member: 175 wrote: Bricscad on a Linux tablet perhaps.
I still haven't found any adequate surveying software that is ported to run with the linux version of Bricscad.
Randy Rain, post: 447967, member: 35 wrote: Also there are times when the PC is having difficulty with some aspect of how the data collector works and I can remote in and unscramble whatever mess has been created and then have the PC watch as I go through the steps to show him(or her) how to perform that task.
Thanks, that's clever as hell. Watched a dealer rep on the phone one day, while I was buying some survey supplies, walk a field crew through the steps of operating the backsight routine on the dc. I was impressed at the level of patience and service he provided for them.