septentrio AsteRx-m3 Pro GNSS Receiver Installation Guide

Release Notes and Installation Guide

AsteRx-m3 Pro Firmware Package v4.12.1

1 Installation Guidelines

In order to upgrade the firmware to version 4.12.1, only the following file is to be installed on the receiver:

SUF file

AsteRx-m3 Pro-4.12.1.suf

Located in firmware/

Contains

See section 6

There is no need to install the file AsteRx-m3 Pro-4.12.1-failsafe.suf, unless Septentrio Support advises otherwise.

2 New Features and Improvements

2.1 New features in version 4.12.1

Galileo OSNMA support has been added.

2.2 Improvements in version 4.12.1

1. It is now possible to configure the PPS pulses to be generated every 4 seconds.

2. Decoding of Galileo I/NAV ephemerides in difficult environment has been improved.

3. The state of the PPS output signal is undefined when the receiver boots.

4. The spoofing detector has been improved and identifies more types of spoofers.

5. The handling of VRS correction data has been refined to improve position accuracy.

6. When using "setUMSDOnConnect,on" and the USB cable is disconnected, the internal disk is now automatically re-mounted and logging resumes.

7. Handling of antenna phase center offset has been improved.

8. Decoding of BeiDou ephemerides in difficult environment has been improved.

9. Antenna in-rush current limitation has been increased.

10. A new command setIpKeepAlive has been added to allow the customer to enable and configure TCP/IP keepalive functionality on the IP and IPS ports.

11. The receiver now has full support of the QZSS J04.

2.3 New features in version 4.10.0

1. The satellite timing system used for the positioning is now selected automatically by default. GLONASS cannot be used.

2. A second independent PPS output is now available.

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3. IP over USB is now available.

4. QZSS support has been added to the positioning engine.

5. The maximum number of satellites used in RTK positioning has been increased.

2.4 Improvements in version 4.10.0

1. BeiDou Phase III signals (B1C and B2a) are now encoded in RTCM3 MSM according to the second amendment to the RTCM version 3.3 standard

2. The NMEA talker ID for BeiDou has been changed from BD to GB in accordance with the

NMEA version 4.11 standard.

3. Login with Ed25519 SSH keys is now supported.

4. An issue related to an invalid UTC time field at startup of the receiver in the NMEA interface has been resolved.

5. Decoding of Galileo ephemerides at cold startup has been improved.

6. Interoperability with VRS bases has been improved.

7. TLS 1.3 is now supported.

3 Known Issues and Limitations

1. When configuring the receiver to broadcast or multicast data (e.g. SBF, NMEA) over UDP, on the "Ethernet over USB" network interface, the data is transmitted twice. Unicast UDP and other network interfaces are not affected by this.

2. It is not possible to upgrade the receiver using mobile Safari on iOS devices.

3. If more than one user simultaneously changes settings via the web interface, the resulting configuration of the receiver may not be consistent.

4. The web server on the receiver has been tested with Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft

Edge. If you experience any problems with your browser, please use a different client application.

5. IPS connections may stay visible in the web interface after the client has been disconnected.

6. The NTRIP server connection is sometimes not reliable when connected to a caster running "Professional Ntrip Broadcaster" (up to v2.0.22).

7. Firewall on computers can delay accepting connection by up to 4 minutes. Before using

IPR functionality ensure that the desired IP port is enabled on your computer.

8. The generation rate of GBS and GRS NMEA sentence is limited to 1 Hz.

9. When accessing the webUI over HTTPS, occasional CPU overloads can be detected.

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4 Support

For further information or support, please consult the Septentrio support website

( http://www.septentrio.com/support).

5 Legal Notice

Septentrio does not authorize the use of its products as critical components in devices or systems intended for safety-of-life applications or in devices or systems, of which the failure may endanger life or cause injuries, unless written approval is given.

All the firmware and documentation delivered with the AsteRx-m3 Pro Firmware Package is licensed, as explained in the About page which is accessible via the web interface of the receiver.

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6 System Components and Versions

Product:

Version:

Receiver Platform:

Release Date:

Failsafe

Operating System

GNSS Firmware

Antenna Information

AsteRx-m3 Pro

4.12.1

GRB0053

20 April 2022 version

12.0.3-gd202d26

12.0.3-gd202d26

6.12.6-g23b011e72d

2.13.0-62076b17

Y

Y

Y

Y

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