adsbcot 3.0.0b7

ADS-B Cursor-on-Target Gateway.

The adsbcot ADS-B 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.

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ADS-B Data can be recevied from a dump1090 recevier using: 1. Aircraft JSON HTTP feed. See: https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090/blob/master/README-json.md 2. Raw TCP (via pyModeS) 3. Beast TCP (via pyModeS)

If you’d like to feed AIS data from another source, consider these:

• adsbxcot: ADS-B Exchange to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms ADS-B position messages to CoT PLI Events.

• stratuxcot: Stratux ADS-B to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms position messages to CoT PLI Events.

Installation

The ADS-B to Cursor on Target Gateway is provided by a command-line tool called adsbcot, 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 adsbcot

To support direct network streaming (raw & beast) from dump1090, you must install the extra package pyModeS.

To install with pyModeS support:

$ pip install adsbcot[with_pymodes]

Install from this source tree:

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

Usage

The adsbcot command-line program has several runtime arguments:

usage: adsbcot [-h] -C COT_HOST [-P COT_PORT] [-S STALE] [-I INTERVAL]
              [-U 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
   -S STALE, --stale STALE
                         CoT Stale period, in seconds
   -I INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL
                         For HTTP: Polling Interval
   -U URL, --url URL     ADS-B Source URL.
   -X ADSBX_API_KEY, --adsbx_api_key ADSBX_API_KEY
                         ADS-B Exchange API Key

Troubleshooting

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

Unit Test/Build Status

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

Source

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

Author

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

https://ampledata.org/

Copyright

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

pyModeS is an optional extra package, and is Copyright (C) 2015 Junzi Sun (TU Delft).

License

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

pyModeS is an optional extra package, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Examples

Connect to dump1090’s Beast TCP running on host 172.17.2.122, port 30005 & forward CoT to host 172.17.2.152, port 8087:

$ adsbcot -C 172.17.2.152:8087 -U tcp+beast:172.17.2.122:30005

Connect to dump1090’s Raw TCP running on host 172.17.2.122, port 30003 & forward CoT to host 172.17.2.152, port 8087:

$ adsbcot -C 172.17.2.152:8087 -U tcp+raw:172.17.2.122:30003

Poll dump1090’s JSON API at http://172.17.2.122:8080/data/aircraft.json with a 10 second interval & forward CoT to host 172.17.2.152, port 8087:

$ adsbcot -C 172.17.2.152:8087 -U http://172.17.2.122:8080/data/aircraft.json -I 10

Poll ADS-B Exchange’s API every 5 seconds & forward CoT to host 127.0.0.1, port 8087:

$ adsbcot -U https://adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2/lat/36.7783/lon/-119.4179/dist/400/ -X SECRET_API_KEY -I 5 -C 127.0.0.1 -P 8087

Running as a Daemon

First, install supervisor:

$ sudo yum install supervisor
$ sudo service supervisord start

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

[program:adsbcot]
command=adsbcot -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