The spotcot Spot Cursor-on-Target Gateway transforms Spot position messages into Cursor on Target (CoT) Position Location Information (PLI) Points for display on Situational Awareness (SA) applications such as the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), WinTAK, RaptorX, et al. This allows partner agencies to track affiliated units without exposing existing networks, amongst other uses.

spotcot can be run as a foreground command line application, or can be run as a background service using a daemon like supervisor.

Usage of this gateway requires a Spot device with service.

IF YOU HAVE AN URGENT OPERATIONAL NEED: Email [email protected] or call/sms +1-415-598-8226

spotcot may also be of use in wildland firefighting, see Section 1114.d of the Dingell Act:

Location Systems for Wildland Firefighters.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the date of
    enactment of this Act, subject to the availability of
    appropriations, the Secretaries, in coordination with State
    wildland firefighting agencies, shall jointly develop and
    operate a tracking system (referred to in this subsection as the
    ``system'') to remotely locate the positions of fire resources
    for use by wildland firefighters, including, at a minimum, any
    fire resources assigned to Federal type 1 wildland fire incident
    management teams.

To install from this source tree:

$ git checkout https://github.com/ampledata/spotcot.git
$ cd spotcot/
$ python setup.py install

To install from PyPI:

$ pip install spotcot

spotcot uses the Spot XML Feed feature to retrieve Spot location messages from the Spot API.

To enable the XML Feed feature:

1. Login to your Spot account at: https://login.findmespot.com/spot-main-web/auth/login.html
2. In the navigation bar, click XML Feed, then Create XML Feed.
3. Enter any value for XML Feed Name.
4. [Optional] If you select Make XML page private, chose and record a password.
5. Click Create, record the XML Feed ID.

The spotcot daemon has several runtime arguments:

$ spotcot -h
usage: spotcot [-h] -U COT_URL [-S COT_STALE] -k API_KEY [-i INTERVAL]
               [-p PASSWORD]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -U COT_URL, --cot_url COT_URL
                        URL to CoT Destination.
  -S COT_STALE, --cot_stale COT_STALE
                        CoT Stale period, in seconds.
  -k API_KEY, --api_key API_KEY
                        Spot API Key ("XML Feed Id").
  -i INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL
                        Spot API Query Interval.
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Spot Feed Password for private feeds.

For minimum operation, -k API_KEY & -U COT_HOST are required.

Github: https://github.com/ampledata/spotcot

Greg Albrecht W2GMD [email protected]

http://ampledata.org/

Copyright 2021 Orion Labs, Inc.

Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.