@ajohansson
Thank you! I thought I was doing something way wrong.
At this point I have no expectations with iTAK. I’m playing with it to learn what features will work for me and what will make life easier. I have some hopes to use it to help me and my guys on the big incidents. If it works, that will be cool, if not then no harm done. If I think it will work, I’ll pay for a server and get the whole ball rolling. Right now, my only fear is that I’m too much of a knuckle dragger to figure it out.
Well if it were me and you really wanted to use something like this on an incident go Android so you can have things like off grid comms with mesh radios etc from beartooth or gotenna(remember with gotenna pro you need freqs this is a 5 watt radio, goteanna consumer and beartooth mk2 uses 900 mhz open ism band) So iTAK just really isnt going to do that stuff in the near term.
I work for a fire dept full of knuckle draggers that have figured out how to use ATAK just fine. Like anything that is new you need to have repetition. I can support you with training materials and guidance.
I finally got the FTP/Cloud Plugin Project finished. This video will walk you through how to use the Cloud/FTP plugin with my FTP site for downloading historical ops maps. The final ops map from every major fire in CA from 2015 to present is on here (if you see one missing that you want just pm me and I will add it). I may start putting data packages for current incident sharing as well. It would be great if we could access the Federal FTP site this way as well. It is totally doable to make a configuration that is download only. Essentially exactly what we have now through the web but make it browsable through ATAK. I hope you enjoy.
Made a new video on a KML network link for RAWS data.
I just did a little update on it. I made an assumption you may have already had a KML network or remote resource running. At the end of the video I added a section on how to start from scratch.
For those that use the AlertWildfire Cams in TAK (or the new Alert CA cameras) service should be restored. Everything is the same, except for the following:
CA is currently a bit interesting. Some cams are on Alert Wildfire and some are on the new site. If you download current_cams, or ca_cams, you will get ALL cams in CA across both services. The video links will be the same and grab from the right location.
As always, please reach out if you notice anything wonky. Joe threw this all together fairly quickly over the weekend and was playing pokemon battles, craft maker, and CAD designer for his kids most of the day, so he was less than 100% focused. That said, thank you for your understanding and please let me know if anything is broken so I can let Joe know. I want to publicly thank Joe Austin of ninehilltech.com for doing this for free on his own time for our community
