taky

taky - A simple COT server for ATAK

Features (and anti-Features!)

• Should support multiple ATAK clients simultaneously! You can see them on the map!
• GeoChats are routed to appropriate groups / UIDs, unless broadcast!
• SSL support with optional client keys!
• Some design consideration for XML security!
• Actually somewhat decent CoT routing uses Marti for other items. If unspecified, packets are considered broadcast.
• A hacked up XML parser written by someone who barely understands XML!
• Advanced Pythonic implementation of CoT model, with only 5 hours of combined industry experience in implementing CoT technology!
• Server shuts down with only one Ctrl+C!
• Does not require root to run!
• Thread safety? Why would you need thread safety?
• Slightly less-than-broken Data Package Server
• Requires no SQlite / databases! (For now!)

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or greater
• lxml
• dateutil
• flask

This application was developed with Python 3.8, and tested with ATAK v4.2.0.4. It is slowly progressing towards a beta state, and should work for playing around.

But, really. Using this is for anything important is probably a very-bad-idea (TM).

Installation

Inside the taky folder, run

$ git clone https://github.com/tkuester/taky
$ cd taky
$ python3 setup.py install

Alternatively, you can use pip!

$ python3 -m pip install taky

Usage

$ taky -h
usage: taky [-h] [-l {debug,info,warning,error,critical}] [-c CFG_FILE] [--version]

Start the taky server

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l {debug,info,warning,error,critical}
                        Log verbosity
  -c CFG_FILE           Path to configuration file
  --version             show program's version number and exit

# Run taky on 0.0.0.0:8087
$ taky

# Run taky within the folder (ie: if you can't install it)
~/taky $ python3 -m taky

taky, if no configuration file is specified, will check the current directory for taky.conf and then /etc/taky/taky.conf.

With no (or an empty) configuration file, taky will start a tcp server on 0.0.0.0. A sample configuration file is located in the project root.