inrcot 1.0.0b1

Support inrcot Development

inrcot has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and Frontline community at-large. This software is currently provided at no-cost to our end-users. All development is self-funded and all time-spent is entirely voluntary. Any contribution you can make to further these software development efforts, and the mission of inrcot to provide ongoing SA capabilities to our end-users, is greatly appreciated:

Wildland Firefighting

inrcot 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.

Installation

The Garmin inReach to Cursor on Target Gateway is provided by a command-line tool called inrcot:

Installing as a Debian/Ubuntu Package:

$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/pytak/releases/latest/download/python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/adsbxcot/releases/latest/download/python3-inrcot_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-inrcot_latest_all.deb

Install from the Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ pip install inrcot

Install from this source tree:

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

Setup

inrcot uses the Garmin Explore “MapShare” feature.

1. Login to Garmin Explore: https://explore.garmin.com/

2. Browse to the “MY INFO” page: https://explore.garmin.com/Inbox

3. Click “Social”.

4. Under MapShare > Enable MapShare click to enable ‘MapShare: On’.

5. Click “Feeds” and note the “Raw KML Data” URL, we’ll use this URL.

For more information on inReach KML Feeds see: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=tdlDCyo1fJ5UxjUbA9rMY8

Usage

The inrcot program has one command-line argument:

$ inrcot -h
usage: inrcot [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG_FILE, --CONFIG_FILE CONFIG_FILE

You must create a configuration file, see example-config.ini in the source respository.

An example config:

[inrcot]
COT_URL = tcp:takserver.example.com:8088
POLL_INTERVAL = 120

[inrcot_feed_aaa]
FEED_URL = https://share.garmin.com/Feed/Share/aaa

Multiple feeds can be added by creating multiple inrcot_feed sections:

[inrcot]
COT_URL = tcp:takserver.example.com:8088
POLL_INTERVAL = 120

[inrcot_feed_xxx]
FEED_URL = https://share.garmin.com/Feed/Share/xxx

[inrcot_feed_yyy]
FEED_URL = https://share.garmin.com/Feed/Share/yyy

Individual feeds CoT output can be customized as well:

[inrcot]
COT_URL = tcp:takserver.example.com:8088
POLL_INTERVAL = 120

[inrcot_feed_zzz]
FEED_URL = https://share.garmin.com/Feed/Share/zzz
COT_TYPE = a-f-G-U-C
COT_STALE = 600
COT_NAME = Team Lead
COT_ICON = my_package/team_lead.png

Source

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

Author

Greg Albrecht W2GMD oss@undef.net

https://ampledata.org/

Copyright

Copyright 2021 Greg Albrecht

License

Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.