stratuxcot 1.0.0b1

Stratux Cursor-on-Target Gateway.

The stratuxcot Stratux Cursor on Target Gateway transforms Stratux 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.

Stratux messages are received via the /traffic Websocket.

CoT PLIs can be transmitted to SA clients using:

1. TCP Unicast to a specified host:port.

2. [COMING SOON] UDP Broadcast to a specified broadcast host:port or multicast host:port.

3. [COMING SOON] FreeTAKServer REST API.

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

Installation

The Stratux to Cursor on Target Gateway is provided by a command-line tool called stratuxcot, which can be installed either from the Python Package Index, or directly from this source tree.

Install from the Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ pip install stratuxcot

Install from this source tree:

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

Usage

The stratuxcot command-line program has several runtime arguments:

$ stratuxcot -h
usage: stratuxcot [-h] -U COT_URL -W STRATUX_WS [-S COT_STALE] [-K FTS_TOKEN]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -U COT_URL, --cot_url COT_URL
                        URL to CoT Destination.
  -W STRATUX_WS, --stratux_ws STRATUX_WS
                        Stratux Websocket URL.
  -S COT_STALE, --cot_stale COT_STALE
                        CoT Stale period, in seconds
  -K FTS_TOKEN, --fts_token FTS_TOKEN
                        FTS REST API Token

Troubleshooting

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

Unit Test/Build Status

stratuxcot’s current unit test and build status is available via Travis CI:

Source

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

Author

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

https://ampledata.org/

Copyright

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

License

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

Examples

Connect to the Stratux device at ws://172.17.2.188/traffic, and forward CoT to TCP Port 8087 on Host 172.17.2.152:

$ stratuxcot -U tcp:172.17.2.152:8087 -W ws://172.17.2.188/traffic

Running as a Daemon

First, install supervisor:

$ sudo yum install supervisor
$ sudo service supervisord start

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

[program:stratuxcot]
command=stratuxcot -U tcp:172.17.2.152:8087 -W ws://172.17.2.188/traffic

And update supervisor:

$ sudo supervisorctl update