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The adsbcot ADS-B Cursor on Target Gateway transforms ADS-B aircraft location data to 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.
ADS-B data can be read from various sources, including:
- dump1090 Aircraft JSON HTTP feed, see: https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090/blob/master/README-json.md
- ADSBExchange API call: https://www.adsbexchange.com/data/
CoT PLIs can be transmitted to SA clients using:
- TCP Unicast to a specified port:address pair.
- UDP Broadcast to a specified broadcast or multicast port:address pair.
For more information on the TAK suite of tools, see: https://www.civtak.org/
The command-line program adsbcot can be install from the Python Package Index (Option A [preferred]), or directly from this source tree (Option B):
Option A) Install from the Python Package Index:
$ pip install adsbcot
Option B) Install from this source tree:
$ git checkout https://github.com/ampledata/adsbcot.git $ cd adsbcot/ $ python setup.py install
The adsbcot command-line program has several runtime arguments:
$ adsbcot -h usage: adsbcot [-h] -C COT_HOST [-P COT_PORT] [-B] [-I INTERVAL] [-S STALE] [-D DUMP1090_URL] [-U ADSBX_URL] [-X ADSBX_API_KEY] optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -C COT_HOST, --cot_host COT_HOST CoT Destination Host (or Host:Port) -P COT_PORT, --cot_port COT_PORT CoT Destination Port -B, --broadcast UDP Broadcast CoT? -I INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL URL Polling Interval -S STALE, --stale STALE CoT Stale period, in hours -D DUMP1090_URL, --dump1090_url DUMP1090_URL Dump1090 URL -U ADSBX_URL, --adsbx_url ADSBX_URL ADS-B Exchange API URL -X ADSBX_API_KEY, --adsbx_api_key ADSBX_API_KEY ADS-B Exchange API Key
At a minimum, you'll need to specify:
- -C COT_HOST, where COT_HOST is the IP or Hostname of the CoT Event destination.
- One (1) of the following sets of arguments:
- -D DUMP1090_URL, where DUMP1090_URL is the URL to a system running the dump1090 ADS-B decoder.
- -U ADSBX_URL & -X ADSBX_API_KEY, where ADSBX_URL is the URL to a ADS-B Exchange feed you'd like to use, and ADSBX_API_KEY is your ADS-B Exchange API Key.
Master:
Develop:
Github: https://github.com/ampledata/adsbcot
Greg Albrecht W2GMD oss@undef.net
Copyright 2020 Orion Labs, Inc.
Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.