CoT route simulator

This script takes a KML file containing a placemark with a linestring, and uses it to place a user defined number of bots around the route which are pushed to a TAK server using Cursor-on-Target XML.

The bots will follow the route at a user defined interval so you could make vehicles follow a circuit...

Requirements

A TAK server IP with SSL (https://github.com/Cloud-RF/tak-server)
The CA file named as ca.pem
User certificates named as simulator.pem and simulator.key
A KML file containing a single path, no folders etc.

Installation

Place your three SSL files into the ssl folder.
Install python3 dependencies
Create a hosts entry in /etc/hosts for takserver and your server IP to pass SSL validation

pip3 install pykml requests

Usage

python3 simulate.py kml/NYC_Marathon.kml takserver

Notes

The interval, number of bots and TCP port can be changed within the top of the script. The CoT message can be edited. Be careful as bad CoT may get silently dropped.

Known issues

TAK server reports one client only

This is normal as many UIDs are reporting over a single TLS connection with a single cert.

CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "simulate.py", line 102, in <module>
    s.connect((TAK_SERVER_ADDRESS, TAK_SERVER_PORT))
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ssl.py", line 1342, in connect
    self._real_connect(addr, False)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ssl.py", line 1333, in _real_connect
    self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ssl.py", line 1309, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: IP address mismatch, certificate is not valid for 'X.X.X.X'. (_ssl.c:1131)

Create an entry in /etc/hosts for your takserver. The common name in the SSL certificate needs to match your entry. The default CN for the Cloud-RF Takserver Docker is 'takserver' so your hosts file should read like:

127.0.0.1  localhost
x.x.x.x    takserver

Cloud-RF/cotroutesim