Firmware Changelog

Device Firmware

Version Date Changes
2.47 2024-04-05

Added support for GNSS receiver firmware version 20230830
Improved tolerance to heading drift due to high ionospheric activity
Limitation: reports higher than expected position standard deviation when using GNSS receiver FW v20230830
2.30 2023-11-10 GNSS receiver configuration is also reset to default upon a factory restore.
More reliable RTCM input buffering in edge cases
Populate GGA number of satellites field correctly when NTRIP client sends position to NTRIP server
Improved web UI map fitment in the browser
Fixed NMEA2000 Rate-of-Turn message (PGN 127251) scaling factor
Improve position standard deviation under RTK Float on v2 HW
Correct time accuracy when using external time source
Improved NMEA2000 reliability. Max 17 satellites reported in PGN129029
NMEA0183 GGA message now reports GNSS Quality = 2 when there is an SBAS Fix. Previously it reported 1
Support more NMEA 0183 output messages in ANPP195 GPIO Output Config Packet
NTRIP client GGA message now has DOP field populated and doesn't include any extra preamble bytes
Reset time upon cold reset
For POE variant, NTRIP client now sends position to NTRIP server regularly to better support VRS
Fixed memory leak that could cause crash after 100's of network dataport connect/disconnect cycles
Fixed memory leak in NTRIP client
In the NTRIP client, don't prepend HTTP preamble when sending GGA message
Correctly populate the NTRIP client GGA message DOP field
Increased magnetometer sample rate for improved navigation
Change NMEA2000 to report DGNSS instead of 3D under SBAS fix
Fix potential out of order NMEA2000 Fast Packets incompatibility with some receivers
Improved reliability when there are a lot of satellites on HW v2
Improved reliability NTRIP client on HW v2 POE variant
Fixed issue with NTRIP client not streaming from some servers
Fixed NMEA2000 Position rounding
Fixed NMEA2000 output data was noisier than the equivalent ANPP data
Changed GNSS firmware version reporting in ANPP69 to prefix version number with a 9 when receiver chipset versions are different
Fixed WebUI map and pin show different location to numerical position
Fix Factory Restore and Cold Start Reset not clearing position
2.24 2022-09-28 Fixed failure to set NMEA packet rates
Fixed ANPP packet periods packet not rejecting packets other than state packets
2.23 2022-09-05 Added support for hardware v2.3
Improved SBAS performance
2.22 2022-07-12

Added support for Aries GC2 GNSS Receiver firmware v220622 - improved RTK performance and fix time, improved SBAS support, added support for QZSS
Improved navigation filter performance during RTK Float
Improved reliability of RTCM corrections
Improved RTCM3.x support
Added support to Web UI NTRIP client for connecting to servers with NTRIP V2.0
Improved NTRIP server reconnection
Added choice of auto or manual DNS config for DHCP mode in network configuration Web UI
Fixed bug where DNS server field was ignored for Static IP mode
Fixed current DNS server address not populating in the ANPP IP configuration packet
Added GNSS Fail flag if GNSS receiver cannot boot properly or has unsupported firmware version
Added hardware version check on startup, sending the unit to bootloader if the firmware is incompatible with the hardware
Improved recovery from failed GNSS Receiver firmware updates
Fixed issue when setting GPIO Output NMEA message rate to 25Hz disabled the message
Various bug fixes
2.2 2022-02-11 Added support for HW v2.2 - minimum FW version for HW v2.2
Improved vehicle type configuration on HW v2.x
Fixed map not showing in Web UI
Removed unsupported NMEA Packet rate from Web UI
Fixed support for SBAS on HW v2.x devices
Fixed timestamps on NMEA0183 packets that sometimes jumped backwards
Fixed user config not saving on HW v2.x devices
Fixed Zero Current Orientation values not updating in Web UI
Fixed magnetometer measurement on HW v2.x
Other general reliability improvements
2.1 2021-10-06 Updated to support v2 hardware
1.24 2020-01-12

Improved heading reliability
Fixed intermittent issue with heading status indicator in Web UI
1.23 2020-12-18 Fixed NMEA 2000 time/date stamps that was outputting random times – Serial variants
Fixed ANPP GNSS Receiver Info packet length
1.2 2018-11-01

Stability and accuracy improvements
Bug fix for false magnetometer failure
Bug fix for Raw Satellite Data packet always on/always off
Default vehicle profile changed to small boat
Bug fix for cold start reset not working Heave fix
0.96 2017-12-05 Initial release firmware

Firmware Changelog

GNSS Receiver Firmware

The GNSS receiver firmware is updated separately to the device firmware.

Version Date Changes
20230830 2023-08-30

Recommended for use with v2.47 FW or newer
Improved heading stability
Note: SBAS is not available in this FW
20220622 2022-06-22 Improved RTK performance and fix time
20211228 2021-12-28 Performance improvements
20210517 2021-05-16 Initial release

Note: To upgrade the firmware to the latest version, see Upgrading the Firmware.