NEO-M9N - Integration manual
3.9.4.3 Interface
Several UBX protocol messages provide interfaces to the
AssistNow Autonomous
feature. They are:
• The CFG-ANA-USE_ANA item is used to enable or disable the
AssistNow Autonomous
feature.
When enabled, the receiver will automatically produce
AssistNow Autonomous
data for newly
received broadcast ephemerides and, if that data is available, automatically provide the
navigation subsystem with orbits when necessary and adequate. The CFG-ANA-* configuration
group also allows for a configuration of the maximum acceptable orbit error. See the next
section for an explanation of this feature. It is recommended to use the firmware default value
that corresponds to a default orbit data validity of approximately three days (for GPS satellites
observed once) and up to six days (for GPS and GLONASS satellites observed multiple times
over a period of at least half a day).
• Note that disabling the
AssistNow Autonomous
feature will delete all previously collected
satellite observation data from the flash memory.
• The UBX-NAV-AOPSTATUS message provides information on the current state of the
AssistNow Autonomous
subsystem. The status indicates whether the
AssistNow Autonomous
subsystem is currently idle (or not enabled) or busy generating data or orbits. Hosts should
monitor this information and only power off the receiver when the subsystem is idle (that is,
when the
status
field shows a steady zero).
• The UBX-NAV-SAT message indicates the use of
AssistNow Autonomous
orbits for individual
satellites.
• The UBX-NAV-ORB message indicates the availability of
AssistNow Autonomous
orbits for
individual satellites.
• The UBX-MGA-DBD message provides a means to retrieve the
AssistNow Autonomous
data
from the receiver in order to preserve the data in power-off mode where no battery backup is
available. Note that the receiver requires the absolute time (i.e. full date and time) to calculate
AssistNow Autonomous
orbits. For best performance it is, therefore, recommended to supply
this information to the receiver using the UBX-MGA-INI-TIME_UTC message in this scenario.
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