I see that the Gotenna Pro X is going for around $250 on Ebay. Is this still a supported and working radio? I know I will need to get a frequency coordination but just making sure there is nothing in that price range with better reliability than meshtastic. My use case is riding UTV's in the woods and keeping track of folks. Meshtastic seems to work ok for tracking but fails on messages very often.
Fieldwatch 1.1.23 just got more useful on your map. 🛰️
Fieldwatch already detects drones, decodes their Remote ID, and plots the drone track and pilot location in TAK. Now it also watches your phone's own GPS for possible jamming and spoofing. When it hits, your marker in TAK gets flagged so your whole team sees it right away.
Runs on the same Android device as ATAK. Free, open source, receive-only, and fully offline. The only official release is on the GitHub releases page.
(This is a technical question related to TAK usage. Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place.)
I was wondering if someone could help me out with understanding the fundamentals of TAK, or point me to relevant documentation. I'm a computer science researcher interested in working with TAK, and I've got a local server up and running in a VM. My core problem is that I can't tell if things are broken or working as expected.
My local server has an admin dashboard which provides WebTAK, with a map of the world. On that map, I can see a marker at 0, 0 which apparently corresponds to the admin who is connected via the website. I then have a client, which connects to the server using the admin certificate and sends a COT message. A corresponding marker pops up in WebTAK, but it disappears if I refresh the page, or if I open a new WebTAK instance after sending the message. It's as if either the message isn't being saved anywhere, or WebTAK is failing to retrieve it.
So I was hoping someone could tell me if (1) this is expected behavior, (2) this indicates a likely bug in WebTAK, or (3) there's some more general issue with my COT message or my TAK server.
I'd appreciate any help with this, or a pointer to somewhere else where I should be asking. Let me know if I need to provide more info. Thank you.
EDIT: Here's an example of a typical COT message. Note that the stale time is several hours in the future.
<event version="2.0" uid="swift-agent-06" type="a-f-G-U-C" how="m-g" time="2026-10-08T18:44:14.752Z" start="2026-10-08T18:44:14.752Z" stale="2026-10-09T03:04:14.752Z">
<point lat="38.8951" lon="-77.0364" hae="0.0" ce="10.0" le="10.0"/>
<detail>
<contact callsign="SwiftBot6"/>
<remarks>Swift TAK CoT test event</remarks>
<__group name="Cyan" role="Team Member"/>
</detail>
</event>
Just pushed new variant of WearTAK. Brings the family to 4. T Watch coming soon! Note, all of these are free forever with an also free TAK.gov account.
- WearTAK-WearOS (the best one with plugins and freestanding, "the ATAK of watches"). Want the best WT? Get a Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2!
- WearTAK-Tracker (like TAK Tracker! Alerts, PLI, and physio)
- WearTAK-iOS (nearly all functionality of - WearTAK-WearOS but no plugins and requires a paired phone)
- WearTAK-Garmin (much lighter function due to Monkey C restrictions and requires a paired phone)
Bloodhounding to pastry on apple watch WearTAK and seeing other tak clients. Reply here and I'll add you to test flight.
Ragazzi, good morning. My father and I were analyzing the Alert button and came up with the idea of a small plugin for quick, visual communication with our teammates.
There are moments when we are unable to notify our teammates, because for technical reasons we cannot make a call, send a chat message, or communicate via radio. So, when we need to let the team know that at that moment we cannot pay attention to the chat or talk on the radio, it would be useful to have a plugin that allows us — for example, by pressing the volume-down button twice — to set our marker on the map directly to red. Or, possibly, to create a small dot next to our marker that turns red, or even to make a small "muted" icon appear inside our marker on the map, etc. This lets all teammates understand that at that moment we cannot talk: because I'm driving, because I want a moment of radio silence, because I'm emptying my bladder (lol), because I'm in a quick brief during an emergency scenario and I'm talking to someone — in short, because I have a sudden need and cannot pay attention to the chat for brief moments, and all these kinds of things.
It should obviously be considered a momentary status marker, which does not disable anything for me as an operator: that is, if I wanted to make a PTT call or send a message, I could. In fact, it would be nice to tie the status to these cases and have it turn off automatically when it detects that we open a channel or send a chat message (but I realize that's an extreme idea, though it would be cool). But let's stay humble: implementing a menu for manual deactivation would be the way to go.
A timer could also be added — 5, 10, 30 minutes, 1 hour or more — that when it expires returns our status to normal (this in case of forgetfulness).
A momentary need that I would like to communicate quickly.
Emergency version: obviously it would be nice to program other functions. For example: with 4 presses of volume-down, one could activate a sort of emergency "enemies on my position, help" or "they've got me, help"; with volume-down held for 3 seconds, "help, I'm hurt, I can't walk", "I've had an accident, help". In short, there's a wide range of factors and modes — I'll leave that to the more experienced programmers. Obviously the choices should be customizable, or one could even write a small message like "run, rendezvous at xxxxyyyy".
In these two cases, it sends an alert with vibration to all teammates, like the Alert application already present, but with greater potential — that is, situational clarity and information.
The ATAK Alert is interesting, but you're always forced to activate it from the menu, and in a real emergency it doesn't give you the possibility to write info: teammates only see "emergency" and that's it, which personally doesn't make much sense.
What do you think? Would it be a nice thing?
Buongiorno ragazzi.
Qualcuno sa dirmi se esiste un plugin che faccia visualizzare case /edifici in 3D con altezze approssimativamente reali?
Grazie a tutti
Used the plugin from github and it worked flawlessly twice for me before. Now I can't get PLI or contacts to pop up. I've tried resetting and reinstalling and going over my uvpro settings to no avail. Anyome have any solutions or experience?
