We are excited to release a new Gadgets interface for the Soracom LTE-M Button, giving customers improved visibility and easier control over their buttons directly in the User Console.

Within this new interface, you can now view important information including your Soracom LTE-M Button's current mode, last connection, battery voltage, and other useful details. The interface also makes it easy to update button settings, such as changing the operation mode, configuring external accessories, and enabling additional options in order to take advantage of all of the Soracom LTE-M Button's features.

Gadgets UI Features

• View and manage all of your buttons in one place
• Check the connection, battery, and other status to identify problems quickly
• Configure button settings such as operation mode, external accessories, and other options
• Connect buttons to Soracom Beam, Soracom Funk, and Soracom Harvest Data for forwarding data to your web server, a cloud service, or simply storing directly on Soracom

For more information or to start managing your Soracom LTE-M Buttons with the new Gadgets interface, visit the Soracom LTE-M Button documentation.

We are pleased to announce the addition of the SoraCam Motion/Sound Detection event source to Soracom Flux.

This new event source allows you to launch Flux App when a Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) compatible camera detects motion or sound. With this enhancement, customers can now build workflows based on real-world activity captured by SoraCam-compatible cameras.

To use this event source, please ensure that motion detection and sound detection features are enabled on the target SoraCam-compatible camera. For configuration instructions, refer to:
Enable or disable motion detection recording for SoraCam-compatible cameras (Japanese)

Please note that Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) are available in Japan Coverage only. For more information about coverage types, see: Overview of Coverage Types

We hope this new feature empowers you to build even more dynamic and responsive IoT solutions with Soracom Flux. For any questions or assistance, feel free to contact Soracom Support.

New options have been added to the video export API for Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) (exportSoraCamDeviceRecordedVideo).

These improvements make it easier to view exported videos in environments where audio playback was previously not supported or where handling ZIP files was inconvenient.

MP3 can now be specified as the audio codec

You can now use the audioCodec parameter to specify MP3 as the audio codec when exporting videos.
If MP3 is supported in the playback environment, both video and audio can be played, even in environments where audio previously could not be played.

Note: Selecting MP3 will consume twice the usual exportable duration.

Videos can now be downloaded in MP4 format

You can now use the archive parameter to choose whether to download videos as ZIP archives or directly in MP4 format.
Downloading in MP4 format allows you to play videos without the need to extract ZIP files.

With these new options, you can export video files in a format that better suits your use case.
For details and configuration instructions, please refer to the API reference.

We are excited to announce that Soracom Flux now supports the newly-released Google Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Google Gemini 2.0 Flash models.

To use these models in your Soracom Flux application, simply add an AI action and select Google Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Google Gemini 2.0 Flash from the list of available AI models.

Each AI action request will consume the following number of Flux credits:

For more information on Soracom Flux, please refer to the Soracom Flux documentation.

Soracom Flux now allows you to view your event and credit usage for the past four months, including the current month, in graphical format.

To access this information, log in to the Soracom User Console and click Menu → Soracom Flux → Flux Usage Status. The following panels will be available:

For details, please refer to View Flux Usage.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact the Soracom support team.

Soracom Air for Cellular plan-US-max now supports MO (Mobile Originated) SMS, giving IoT devices that use plan-US-max for connectivity the ability to send SMS messages.

In addition to the existing support for receiving MT (Mobile Terminated) SMS, this update now allows for bidirectional communication between devices and servers using SMS.

Please note that plan-US-max MO SMS support is limited to sending messages to the Unified Endpoint SMS address 901001. Data sent to Unified Endpoint can be stored in Soracom Harvest Data or forwarded to a different destination using another service such as Soracom Beam. Sending messages to other addresses is not supported.

For more information, please refer to the Sending Data with SMS & USSD documentation.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Soracom support team.

We are pleased to announce the following user interface improvements for Soracom Napter:

New Visual Explanation of the TLS Option

When creating an On-demand Remote Access session from the User Console, a new diagram will show the connection between the device and Napter, and the connection between Napter and the client. This diagram will update according to your TLS Option selection, allowing you to visually understand how the connection will be established:

View On-demand Remote Access Session Remaining Time

When viewing the list of On-demand Remote Access sessions, each session now displays the remaining time, allowing you to more easily check how much time is left before the session expires.

To check the originally requested session duration, simply hover your mouse over the [i] icon.

For more information, please refer to the Napter: Usage documentation.

We are excited to announce a new time-lapse video creation and download feature for Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam). With this feature, users can choose a specific time period, interval, and frame rate, and create a summarized time-lapse video from an existing video that has been uploaded by a SoraCam device. This allows for more efficient monitoring of on-site conditions, without the need to download and review entire videos.

Note that a cloud continuous recording license is required to use this feature.

For more information about the time-lapse video feature, please refer to Generate and Download Time-Lapse Videos (Japanese).

We are pleased to announce that math functions can now be used in Soracom Flux expressions, such as in the execution condition of a Flux Action as well as in some input fields. These functions include trigonometric and logarithm functions, allowing for more complex calculations when building Flux applications.

For more information, please refer to the Use Expressions in Actions documentation.

Starting April 10, 2025, customers using invoice payments will have the option to change their payment due date from “month-end closing, next month-end payment (NET30)” to “month-end closing, payment end of month after next (NET60)”.

This change will apply to invoices issued for the April 2025 billing cycle onward.

Please note that a handling fee of 550 JPY (tax included) will be added per invoice when the due date is changed to NET60.

For details on how to switch to invoice payments or change the payment due date, please refer to the following guide: Update Invoice Information Issued by Net Protections (Japanese).