Changing icon pallet from CoT 2525C to OSM and show the correct Icon

General
1

After using node-red to inject an API key to input data onto the map we can modify the code to switch between unknown, friend, neutral, and hostile. When we try to use a different icon such as one from the OSM table transport icon the icon doesn’t change on the map and leaves one of the original 4 2525c icons. What do I need to change in the code to have new items from the api key show up as the transport icons?

var call = msg.payload.eventTime;
var alertid = msg.payload.alertId;
var lat = msg.payload.estimatedEventLocation[1];
var lon = msg.payload.estimatedEventLocation[2];
var headline = msg.payload.headline;
var remark = msg.payload.headline + ' ' + msg.payload.publicPost.link
const cinco = 10 * 60 * 1000;
const diez = 2 * cinco;
const stale = new Date(Date.now() + diez).toISOString();

/*
Not all fields are required for display on most TAK Products, other systems may
have different requirements. YMMV.
*/

msg.payload = {
    "event": {
        "_attributes": {
            "version": "2.0",
            "uid": call,
            "type": "a-h-G-I-i-e-icc",
            "how": "m-p",
            "time": new Date(Date.now()).toISOString(),
            "start": new Date(Date.now()).toISOString(),
            "stale": stale
        },
        "point": {
            "_attributes": {
                "lat": lat,
                "lon": lon,
                "hae": "0.0",
                "ce": "9999999.0",
                "le": "9999999.0"
            }
        },
        "detail": {
            "remarks": remark,
            "usericon": 'iconsetpath=6d781afb-89a6-4c07-b2b9-a89748b6a38f/Transport/caution.png'

        }
        }
}

return msg;
2

Going to need a bit more information I think.
How are you then converting that to xml and sending that to TAK ?
can you show us the xml that is being sent ?

3

If you are using the latest (0.15.0) version of my TAK registration node then you can send a simple object to create the marker (values hardcoded just for demo)

msg.payload = {
    name : "Caution-001",
    lat: 52,
    lon: -1,
    icon:"6d781afb-89a6-4c07-b2b9-a89748b6a38f/Transport/caution.png",
    SIDC: "SHGIIE",
    remarks: "Oops - something to look out for here."
}
return msg;

Example flow

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4

I am the one helping rivershark with this code on the server. How would we go about doing the stale and start times for it? I have everything else coded over to your module. btw big fan made my spaghetti code so much easier

5

Hi, start time is set to "now" when the message is sent. stale time can be set by setting msg.payload.ttl to a time to live in seconds - so based on your code above msg.payload.ttl = 1200