AirTAK C-UAS Getting Started¶

AryaOS UAS Screenshot

AirTAK C-UAS should operate plug & play out of the box with nothing more than a TAK EUD (ATAK, WinTAK, iTAK) connected to AirTAK C-UAS's WiFi hotspot.

When in-doubt, reboot.

Initial Setup¶

AirTAK C-UAS can operate in one of three modes:

Standalone: One or more EUDs connected directly to the AirTAK's WiFi Hotspot or Ethernet. This mode requires no additional configuration is the default - off-the-shelf/out-of-the-box - configuration.
LAN, MANET: AirTAK's WiFi or Ethernet connected directly to a LAN or MANET.
TAK Server: AirTAK's WiFi or Ethernet connected to a LAN, and configured to send CoT to a TAK Server.

AirTAK CONOP Modes

Standalone using WiFi¶

This mode uses AirTAK's built-in WiFi Hotspot to provide connectivity to the TAK EUD. CoT events are sent directly to the EUD over this WiFi network.

Connect the USB power supply to the device. Ensure color-coded direction of connector (yellow to yellow, black to black).
After a 2 minutes, a new WiFi network should appear with a name like AryaOS-XXXX. Connect to this network.
Open ATAK, WinTAK or iTAK.

LAN, MANET, TAK Server using WiFi¶

This method uses AirTAK C-UAS' built-in WiFi hotspot to reconfigure the device to connect to an existing WiFi network, disabling the on-board WiFi hotspot.

Connect the USB power supply to the device. Ensure color-coded direction of connector (yellow to yellow, black to black).
After a 2 minutes, a new WiFi network should appear with a name like AryaOS-XXXX. Connect to this network.
From a web browser (Chrome, Safari), browse to: http://aryaos.local (or http://10.41.0.1).
Click WiFi Configuration:
Select the WiFi network you'd like AirTAK C-UAS to connect to:
Enter Password and click Connect:

Once you've connected AirTAK C-UAS to a WiFi network, the AryaOS-XXXX hotspot AP will no longer broadcast an SSID. You can access the device dashboard by accessing its IP address, for example, if your WiFi network is using DHCP and has given AirTAK C-UAS an IP of 192.168.0.3, you'll browse to: http://192.168.0.3.

LAN, MANET, TAK Server using Ethernet¶

This method uses the built-in Ethernet port to connect to an existing network.

Connect the USB power supply to the device. Ensure color-coded direction of connector (yellow to yellow, black to black).
Connect an ethernet cable to the external ethernet port of the AirTAK.
From a web browser (Chrome, Safari), browse to: http://aryaos.local

Once you've connected AirTAK C-UAS to your ethernet network, you can access the device via its IP address, for example, if your ethernet network is using DHCP and has given AirTAK C-UAS an IP of 192.168.0.3, you'll browse to: http://192.168.0.3.

Connecting an EUD¶

AirTAK C-UAS has been tested with all TAK Products, including iTAK, WinTAK & ATAK. Out-of-the-box, local CoT feeders send to Charontak on the gateway, and Charontak transmits Cursor on Target CoT to the multicast Mesh SA group of 239.2.3.1:6969. Upstream TAK Server destinations are configured as Charontak lanes from Cockpit at https://<host>/admin/.

Connect to a TAK Server over TLS¶

Combine PEM client cert & PEM unencrypted client key into a single combined.pem:

cat client.pem > combined.pem
openssl rsa -in client.key -out client.key.plain
cat client.key.pem >> combined.pem

Using sftp, scp, pftp or other file-copy tool, copy combined.pem to /etc/combined.pem on the AirTAK.
Browse to the AirTAK C-UAS dashboard: http://aryaos.local (or IP:1880/ui).
Select ARYAOS DASHBOARDS:
Under the AirTAK Dashboards hamburger menu, select System Configuration:
In Cockpit, open Charontak and configure the local-to-takserver lane with the TAK Server URL, for example tls://takserver.example.com:8089, plus the TLS certificate paths. Keep local feeder COT_URL values pointed at Charontak (udp+wo://127.0.0.1:28087).
Click Save Changes & Restart.

Updating AirTAK / AryaOS¶

Watch GitHub Releases for new AryaOS images. To build from source or understand CI artifacts, see Download or build.