adsbxcot 1.4.1

ADS-B Exchange Cursor-on-Target Gateway.

The adsbxcot ADS-B Exchange Cursor on Target Gateway transforms Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) aircraft position information into Cursor on Target (CoT) Position Location Information (PLI) for display on Situational Awareness (SA) applications such as the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), WinTAK, RaptorX, et al.

For more information on the TAK suite of tools, see: https://www.civtak.org/

Support ADSBXCoT Development

ADSBXCoT has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and Frontline community at-large. This software is currently provided at no-cost to our end-users. All development is self-funded and all time-spent is entirely voluntary. Any contribution you can make to further these software development efforts, and the mission of ADSBXCoT to provide ongoing SA capabilities to our end-users, is greatly appreciated:

Installation

The ADS-B Exchange to Cursor on Target Gateway is provided by a command-line tool called adsbxcot:

Installing as a Debian/Ubuntu Package:

$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/aircot/releases/latest/download/python3-aircot_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-aircot_latest_all.deb
$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/pytak/releases/latest/download/python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/adsbxcot/releases/latest/download/python3-adsbxcot_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-adsbxcot_latest_all.deb

Install from the Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ pip install adsbxcot

Install from this source tree:

$ git clone https://github.com/ampledata/adsbxcot.git
$ cd adsbxcot/
$ python setup.py install

Usage

The adsbxcot command-line program has several runtime arguments:

usage: adsbxcot [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-d] [-U COT_URL] [-S COT_STALE] [-A ADSBX_URL] [-X API_KEY] [-I POLL_INTERVAL] [-F FILTER_FILE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG_FILE, --CONFIG_FILE CONFIG_FILE
  -d, --DEBUG           Enable DEBUG logging
  -U COT_URL, --COT_URL COT_URL
                        URL to CoT Destination. Must be a URL, e.g. tcp:1.2.3.4:1234 or tls:...:1234, etc.
  -S COT_STALE, --COT_STALE COT_STALE
                        CoT Stale period, in seconds
  -A ADSBX_URL, --ADSBX_URL ADSBX_URL
                        ADS-B Exchange API URL.
  -X API_KEY, --API_KEY API_KEY
                        ADS-B Exchange API Key
  -I POLL_INTERVAL, --POLL_INTERVAL POLL_INTERVAL
                        For JSON API: Polling Interval
  -F FILTER_FILE, --FILTER_FILE FILTER_FILE
                        FILTER_FILE

Troubleshooting

To report bugs, please set the DEBUG=1 environment variable to collect logs.

Source

The source for adsbxcot can be found on Github: https://github.com/ampledata/adsbxcot

Author

adsbxcot is written and maintained by Greg Albrecht W2GMD [e-mail]

https://ampledata.org/

Copyright

adsbxcot is Copyright 2020 Orion Labs, Inc. https://www.orionlabs.io

License

adsbxcot is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

Running as a Daemon

First, install supervisor:

$ sudo yum install supervisor
$ sudo service supervisord start

Create /etc/supervisor.d/adsbxcot.ini with the following content:

[program:adsbxcot]
command=adsbxcot -U https://adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2/lat/36.7783/lon/-119.4179/dist/400/ -X xxx -I 5 -C 127.0.0.1 -P 8087

And update supervisor:

$ sudo supervisorctl update

Filtering

New in the latest version of adsbxcot is the concept of filtering. Filters can be specified in a configuration file or with a csv ‘known craft’ file.

Using the filter configuration file:

Either:

A) On the command line specify the filter configuration with the ‘-F filter.ini’ flag, where ‘filter.ini’ is the name of your filter configuration file.

B) In the config.ini file, specify the filter configuration with FILTER_CONFIG=filter.ini, again, where filter.ini is the name of your filter configuration file.

In either case, the filter configuration file is laid out as follows:

[FLIGHT]
include = xxx
exclude = yyy

[ICAO]
include = xxx
exclude = yyy

[REG]
include = xxx
exclude = yyy

Please note that each section is mutually exclusive. You can only use one filter method at a time and you should only specify one filter type at a time.

For example, to filter only ICAOs 1234 and 4567, create a filter.ini as follows:

[ICAO]
include = 1234, 4567

Then start adsbxcot with ‘-F filter.ini’ or add FILTER_CONFIG=filter.ini to the config.ini file.

Another example, to exclude all United Flight 1010 from your feed:

[FLIGHT]
exclude = UAL1010