Antares Release Notes
Coming NEXT (Antares 4.0.7 - Mid April)
- Satellite communication (Satcom) support
- Idle signal (G05)
- Idle counter, CL tag, and XACL command
- Over-speed counter, CS tag, XACS command, and G27 signal
- XARE Region Event
- XAQQ signal ban
- XATA sms alias
- XASP signal persistence
- F21 Board Critical temperature
- G40/G41 Region signals
- XABR serial baud rate
- Serial Camera
- Ignition counter, CE tag, and XACE command
- QTM implementation for Pegasus console
- QST1 implementation for Pegasus console
- QST2 implementation for Pegasus console
- QXANS implementation for Pegasus console
- Technoton
Supported Signals:
- E00–E99: Event signals
- F00: Ignition
- F13: Main power
- TD0–TD9: Time and distance
- IP1: Input 1
- XP1, XP2: Outputs
- S00–S09: Speed limits
- R00–RZ9: Polygonal regions (360 regions)
- U00–U99: User signals
- G15, G16: Power saving mode (PSM) signals
- F01: GNSS FIX
- F22: Long time without GNSS FIX (More than 1 hour)
- G03: System reset
- A00, A01: Socket signals
- F23: Jamming detected
- G04: Jamming persisted
- F02: Roaming
- F03: GSM
- F05: GPRS attach
- F08: SIM insertion
- F14: Cell ID change
- F12: Motion Signal
- F15: Low Battery
- G07: Towing
- J00-J09: Heading Thresholds
- TO0-TO9: Onewire temperature thresholds.
- G00: SECO enabled.
- G01: SECO activated.
- G02: SECO running.
- Q00-Q99: Ibutton signals.
- F18: Ibutton connected.
- F19: Ibutton authorized.
- F11: PSM ended.
- C00-C99: Counters.
Supported Extended TAGs
- DOP: Dilution of Precision
- SV: Satellites in Use
- BL: Battery Level
- IX: Inputs and Outputs Status
- VO: Virtual Odometer
- VH: Virtual Hour Meter
- IS: Ibutton state
- EA: Onewire temperature
- AL: Altitude
- SC: Service Cell
- AP: Accelerometer parameters
- CVxx: Counter values.
Supported Commands
- AM: Set or get airplane mode
- DA: Configure destination addresses
- ED: Define events
- GR: Configure regions
- GS: Configure speed limits
- IV: Query or update interface version
- PV: Query position and velocity
- RF: Configure APN
- RT: System reset and configuration (>SRT<, >SRT;CONFIG<)
- SS: Query and Set signal status
- ST: GNSS status.
- SA: Sequential ACK
- TD: Configure time and distance parameters
- GC: Counters.
- XACT: Communication test
- XADP: Configure destination point
- XAEF: Manage extended tags
- XAFU: Firmware upgrade (long format)
- XAGP: Set GPRS pause
- XAKA: Keep-alive
- XAKY: Configuration control
- XAPS: Power saving mode
- XARS: Query registration status
- XAVO: Set or get virtual odometer and control signal
- XAFUGW: Antares upgrade to the latest version.
- XAGF: Anti Drift filter configuration.
- XAICMT: Accelerometer Motion threshold.
- XAICHM: Hard motion threshold.
- XAVH: Virtual hour meter.
- XASE: Safe engine cut off.
- XAIB: Onewire Ibutton.
- XAIL: Ibutton authorized list.
- XAIA: Ibutton extended authorized list.
- XATI: Onewire temperature general information.
- XATL: Onewire temperature ID asociation.
- XATO: Onewire temperature thresholds.
2026-04-03 Antares 4.0.6 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-4.0.6.swu;;<)
- ANT-217 - Added: multi-response command support in RS232 console mode.
- ANT-270 - Added: AP Accelerometer Extended tag.
- ANT-275 - Added: QST GNSS status command.
- ANT-234 - Added: The GC command to consult and interact with counters module.
- ANT-234 - Added: User counters.
- ANT-259 - Added: Distance counters.
- ANT-258 - Added: The CVxx extended tag.
- ANT-258 - Added: Cxx counter signals.
- ANT-258 - Added: Time counters.
- ANT-297 - Improved: Antares diagnostics to Syrus Cloud. Some messages were classified as critical, and they are forwarded to slack in order to be attended with higher priority.
- ANT-297 - Fixed: The logic to trigger SECO signals.
- ANT-297 - Fixed: The mechanism to restore HW signals state after doing a configuration reset.
2026-03-24 Antares 4.0.5 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-4.0.5.swu;;<)
- ANT-281 - Added: A new Syrus Cloud diagnostic message for the microcontroller reset reason.
- ANT-231 - Added: Mechanism for reporting battery charging voltage.
- ANT-222 - Added: Mechanism to download Assisted GPS data, improving time to fix.
- ANT-215 - Added: Safe Engine Cut OFF.
- ANT-285 - Added: Support for onewire iButtons.
- ANT-285 - Added: Support for onewire temperature sensors.
- ANT-194 - Fixed: Mechanism to establish the MQTT connection when the system time is invalid.
- ANT-225 - Added: XAEC command to configure the system time.
- ANT-225 - Added: QVR;+ command that includes the compilation time.
- ANT-257 - Added: Onewire driver patch.
- ANT-264 - Added: STX text message command and MDT RS-232 module.
- ANT-286 - Fixed: Microcontroller bootloader mechanism. It was finishing incorrectly when the process was triggered a second time.
- ANT-151 - Changed: Reference time to reset the OS by no connection changed from 86400 to 3600.
- ANT-151 - Added: Mechanism for sequential ACKs of events.
- ANT-271 - Added: AL extended tag for altitude reporting.
- ANT-272 - Added: SC extended tag for cellular network info reporting.
- ANT-276 - Added: XABS battery level query command.
- ANT-265 - Added: PSM Ended F11 signal.
- ANT-265 - Fixed: Virtual hour meter format.
2026-03-09 Antares 4.0.4 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-4.0.4.swu;;<)
- ANT-230 - Added: Virtual Hour Meter (VH extended tag and XAVH command).
- ANT-252 - Fixed: Battery voltage value reported to Syrus Cloud is now in V instead of mV.
- ANT-252 - Added: Battery charging state to Syrus Cloud diagnostic messages.
- ANT-237 - Added: Hard Motion signal (F16).
- ANT-219 - Added: Heading report signals (J00–J04) and XAGH command.
- ANT-195 - Added: Towing signal (G07).
- ANT-251 - Added: APN mask for DCT SIM cards.
2026-02-24 Antares 4.0.2 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-4.0.2.swu;;<)
- ANT-228 - Fixed: Syrus Cloud MQTT broker message queuing for Antares devices.
- ANT-221 - Added: Device reset reason reporting in Syrus Cloud diagnostic messages upon application startup.
- ANT-249 - Added: XAFUGW command to update the device to the latest stable firmware version.
- ANT-232 - Added: Low battery signal (F15).
- ANT-250 - Fixed: Geofence evaluation mechanism that was generating false triggers when inside geofences.
- ANT-107 - Added: SSH session management commands to start, stop sessions, and request active port information.
- ANT-185 - Added: XAEC command to upload files and folders to DCT FTP server.
- OPS-9491 - Added: GNSS anti-drift filter to improve positioning accuracy during low-speed motion or stationary periods.
- OPS-9493 - Added: Motion signal (F12) to detect device motion based on accelerometer.
- OPS-9517 - Added: XAGF command to configure and query GNSS filter parameters (HDOP limit, speed threshold, motion detection, enabled/disabled state).
- OPS-9516 - Added: XAICMT command to configure the motion detection threshold.
2026-02-10 Antares 4.0.1 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-4.0.1.swu;;<)
- ANT-246 - Added: Speed limit signals (S00–S09).
- ANT-246 - Added: GS command for speed configuration.
- ANT-246 - Added: Polygonal region signals (R00–RZ9, 360 regions).
- ANT-246 - Added: GR command for polygonal region configuration.
- ANT-218 - Added: VO as an extended tag for the virtual odometer.
- ANT-218 - Added: XAVO command to set and get the virtual odometer value and control signal.
- ANT-210 - Added: Support to trigger user signals (U00–U99).
- ANT-210 - Added: Support to trigger PSM signals (G15, G16).
- ANT-210 - Added: Support to trigger FIX signals (F01, F22).
- ANT-210 - Added: Support to trigger system reset signal (G03).
- ANT-210 - Added: Support to trigger socket signals (A00, A01).
- ANT-210 - Added: Support to trigger jamming signals (F23, G04).
- ANT-119 - Added: BIST test case for 5V and VCC power supplies.
- ANT-119 - Added: BIST test case to validate modem revision.
- ANT-186 - Added: XAGP command to set a GPRS pause, entering airplane mode for 30 seconds.
- ANT-186 - Added: AM command to set and get airplane mode.
- ANT-186 - Fixed: The ONE LONG LED state now indicates airplane mode.
- ANT-213 - Added: Support to trigger roaming signal (F02).
- ANT-213 - Added: Support to trigger GSM signal (F03).
- ANT-213 - Added: Support to trigger GPRS attach signal (F05).
- ANT-213 - Added: Support to trigger SIM insertion signal (F08).
- ANT-213 - Added: Support to trigger Cell ID change signal (F14).
- ANT-220 - Added: Mechanism for queuing diagnostic messages for Syrus Cloud.
- ANT-141 - Added: MQTT diagnostic message for long periods without GNSS.
- ANT-141 - Added: Mechanism to restart the OS upon detection of a GNSS port issue.
- ANT-141 - Enhanced: System debug mechanism with more information.
- ANT-141 - Added: MQTT diagnostic message for PSM activation/deactivation.
- ANT-141 - Added: MQTT diagnostic message for reset reason reported by the microcontroller.
- ANT-141 - Added: MQTT diagnostic message indicating application startup.
- ANT-184 - Added: XADDUP command to send a test diagnostic message to Syrus Cloud.
- ANT-110 - Added: QXATT query command to prevent Pegasus from querying this parameter multiple times.
- ANT-110 - Added: QPV command to query position and speed.
2026-01-26 Antares 4.0.0 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-4.0.0.swu;;<)
- ANT-140 - Added: Mechanism for supporting extended tags.
- ANT-140 - Added: DOP, SV, BL, and IX as supported extended tags.
2026-01-14 Antares 1.3.50 (>SXAFU1https://syrus4.dctserver.com/apex/releases/antares/antares-1.3.50.swu;;<)
- ANT-193 - Added: Mechanism to set the system time to GPS epoch when the system starts in January 1970. This avoids sending EV frames with invalid timestamps.
- ANT-193 - Added: Mechanism to keep the last known location as a backup in case the GNSS loses position. This avoids jumping to 0,0 when EV frames are sent.
- ANT-139 - Added: Condition to avoid validating the KY when it is an internal command.
- ANT-139 - Added: Mechanism to execute actions triggered by events.
- ANT-138 - Added: Restriction to avoid starting BIST process if command is received from an interface other than the serial port.
- ANT-138 - Added: Error code 08 to restricted commands.
- ANT-189 - Added: XAPS command to set and get the power saving mode.
- ANT-189 - Added: Mechanism for retrieving modem temperature using the QTEMP AT command.
- ANT-152 - Added: Mechanism for incrementing the session counter.
- ANT-152 - Added: Diagnostic message to Syrus Cloud when a new connection is established.
- ANT-152 - Added: Utility to retrieve available RAM, CPU load, session number, and network interface IP from the system.
- ANT-167 - Added: TAIP KY mechanism that uses a configurable key to lock the device configuration.
- ANT-167 - Added: List of commands permitted by the KY mechanism.
- ANT-182 - Added: Mechanism to restart the connection when no ACK is received.
- ANT-182 - Added: Mechanism to discard events after several retries.
- ANT-182 - Added: Mechanism to save and load the last known position from non-volatile memory.
- ANT-167 - Added: Complete mechanism to use the circular buffer by sockets.
- ANT-167 - Improved: TCP connection stability by including keep-alive idle, interval, and counter.
- ANT-167 - Added: XAEC command to clear a specific socket buffer.
- ANT-166 - Added: Client ID to the last will and testament message.
- ANT-165 - Added: XAPSI user command to enter power saving mode immediately.
- ANT-163 - Added: XART command to query Antares version, IMSI, SIM ID, network operator, modem variant, and interface version.
- ANT-142 - Added: Circular buffer implementation along with its unit test.
- ANT-158 - Added: Secondary watchdog mechanism.
- ANT-157 - Added: Instruction to call and finish the terminal task.
- ANT-157 - Added: Task in charge of processing incoming commands received via the system console.
- ANT-112 - Added: TAIP console via SMS.
- ANT-153 - Added: TAIP command SRT to reset the system.
- ANT-104 - Added: Keep-alive mechanism for connection maintainability.
- ANT-150 - Added: Mechanisms to restart the OS and check the boot mode in case the microcontroller is not responding.
- ANT-102 - Added: Mechanism for updating the microcontroller.
- ANT-102 - Added: Utility to download remote files.
- ANT-102 - Added: IV (interface version) command to query and update the Antares interface version.