DCT Antares SB, User Manual

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3.9. TAIP CONSOLE
Qualifier Action
Q Query for a single sentence.
R Response to a query or a scheduled
report.
S Configuration or set message.
Message Identifier
Alphabetical characters used to identify messages. For example
PV
for a position-velocity message,
ED
for an event definition or
ER
for
an error message. See the TAIP reference chapter for a full list.
There are some messages which are an extension to the normal TAIP
reference for which the
Message Identifier is
XA
, these messages have
a secondary identifier which is formed by the two characters following
the
XA
identifier. Extended messages are also described on the TAIP
reference chapter.
Data String
The format of a data string depends on the message qualifier and the
message identifier. The formats for each messages are described on
the
TAIP reference chapter.
Vehicle ID
The unit can be configured to output every message with the vehicle’s
ID. This is optional and is controlled by the
RM
message. The default
ID is set to
0000
. The Antares SB
TM
will check all incoming messages
for ID, if no ID is specified, the unit will accept the message. If the ID
is included in messages but does not compare with the ID previously
set, the message will be ignored.
Antares SB
TM
can be configured to use its unique IMEI number as
reporting ID. See the configuration chapter for more information.
Message Delimiter
The < character signifies end of a sentence and is used as the message
delimiter.
3.9.2 Reporting messages
The unit output messages when a command or query is sent or when
reporting an event message generated by the
Event Machine . These
messages are either the
EV
or
ET
messages. See the TAIP reference for
information on how to get the information contained on these reports.
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