Citizen to CoT

A PyTAK application that pulls incidents from Citizen's API and pushes it to TAK as a CoT Event.

Installation

1. Install pipenv using python -m pip install pipenv
2. Run python -m pipenv install to install the prerequisites.
3. Create a config.ini and adjust the settings to your use-case.

Usage/Setup

Running (as a standalone application)

Run python -m pipenv run python main.py to start the application.

Running (as a service)

1. Modify citizentocot.service to the correct working directory, user, and shell script directory.
2. Copy it to the right directory using cp citizentocot.service /etc/systemd/system/
3. Run sudo systemctl daemon-reload
4. Run sudo systemctl enable citizentocot (if you want to run it at boot, otherwise skip this step)
5. Run sudo systemctl start citizentocot to start the service

Example Config

This config connects to a TAK server instance via TLS (using a self-signed cert), pulls data and pushes CoT events every 30 minutes.

config.ini

[citizentocot]
COT_URL = tls://XX.XX.XX.XX:8089
PYTAK_TLS_CLIENT_CERT = private_key.pem
PYTAK_TLS_CLIENT_KEY = private_key.pem
PYTAK_TLS_DONT_VERIFY = true
CITIZEN_API_URL = https://citizen.com/api/incident/trending?lowerLatitude=XX&lowerLongitude=XX&upperLatitude=XX&upperLongitude=XX&fullResponse=true&limit=200
POLL_INTERVAL = 1800