SFPD CAD to Cursor-On-Target Gateway.

Example agencies: * DC Fire & EMS: EMS1205

The SFPD CAD to Cursor-On-Target Gateway (SFPDCADCOT) transforms SFPD Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) calls for service to Cursor-On-Target (COT) Events for display on Situational Awareness applications such as the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), WinTAK, RaptorX, TAKX, iTAK, et al. More information on the TAK suite of tools cal be found at: https://www.tak.gov/

Support Development

Tech Support: Email support@undef.net or Signal/WhatsApp: +1-310-621-9598

This tool has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and Frontline Healthcare community. This software is currently provided at no-cost to users. Any contribution you can make to further this project's development efforts is greatly appreciated.

Installation

SFPDCADCOT's functionality provided by a command-line program called pulsecot.

Installing as a Debian / Ubuntu Package [Recommended]:

$ sudo apt update
$ 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/pulsecot/releases/latest/download/python3-pulsecot_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-pulsecot_latest_all.deb

Install from the Python Package Index (PyPI) [Advanced Users]:

$ python3 -m pip install pulsecot

Install from this source tree [Developers]:

$ git clone https://github.com/ampledata/pulsecot.git
$ cd pulsecot/
$ python3 setup.py install

Usage

The pulsecot command-line program has 2 runtime arguments:

usage: pulsecot [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG_FILE, --CONFIG_FILE CONFIG_FILE. Default: config.ini

Configuration

Configuration parameters can be specified either via environment variables or in a INI-stile configuration file.

Parameters:

• CAD_URL: (optional) SFPD CAD Data URL.
• COT_URL: (optional) Destination for Cursor-On-Target messages. See PyTAK for options.
• POLL_INTERVAL: (optional) Period in seconds to poll API. Default: 30

There are other configuration parameters available via PyTAK.

Configuration parameters are imported in the following priority order:

1. config.ini (if exists) or -c <filename> (if specified).
2. Environment Variables (if set).
3. Defaults.

Source

SFPDCADCOT source can be found on Github: https://github.com/ampledata/pulsecot

Author

SFPDCADCOT is written and maintained by Greg Albrecht W2GMD oss@undef.net

https://ampledata.org/

Copyright

SFPDCADCOT is Copyright 2022 Greg Albrecht

License

Copyright 2022 Greg Albrecht <oss@undef.net>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.