Arma 3 Players Guide
It's highly recommended to configure ARMATAK stuff locally BEFORE you're joining a multiplayer session.
ATAK -> Android App for Situation Awareness
ARMATAK -> Arma 3 mod that sends the player's position to a websocket connection
SIMTAK -> App that will connect into a websocket and mock the device's location based on information provided by the websocket.
ATAK-CIV is publicly available on Play Store, download and authorize the permissions on your phone (there are many of them, it quite makes sense because of the functions required).
ARMATAK is publicy available in the Arma 3 Steam Workshop and Github, just subscribe on Steam Workshop and Steam should handle the installation of ARMATAK.
SIMTAK is not authorized to be on Google Play Store yet, here is a step by step about how to install it:
- Download the ARMATAK mod from Steam Workshop.
- Open the Mod content folder (right click on the mod in the Arma 3 launcher -> Open Folder -> I understand)
- Move the simtak.apk file to your android phone
- Open the simtak.apk file on your phone, it's a android app installation package, in order to install a app from outside the playstore, you must explict authorize that.
- Enable Developer mode on your phone
- On Developer options (inside the settings), define SIMTAK as Default Fake Location App
If you are using a Samsung device, there is a "Adaptive Battery" feature for battery saving that will break SIMTAK or apps that runs services on background. In order to solve it, users must follow the "Solution for users" tab on this website.
Remember to disable Battleye before starting the game, after stating the game, right on briefing screen or inside the game already, ARMATAK's websocket should be running by default, but you can check if it's up and running on the log located in:
<your arma 3 mod folder>/armatak.log
It should be getting something like this:
2024-12-12T02:46:04.470687400-03:00 armatak::websocket - WebSocket server started.
2024-12-12T02:46:04.471617600-03:00 ws - Listening for new connections on 0.0.0.0:4152.
Then you can get your phone and open SIMTAK, it should look like this:
On the server address, add your websocket address connection, if ARMATAK is running fine, it should be like this:
ws://<your address>:4152
If your computer running Arma 3 with ARMATAK and your phone are on the same Wifi router, the computer local address should be able to connect (ipconfig on command prompt and you will can check it), if your cellphone is not on the same network as your computer, you will have to port forward the port 4152 to your computer in order to allow external connections to ARMATAK socket. After pressing the connect button, you should check the following screen:
If you cannot see the "Not Initialized" message, you're probably using a Samsung Phone with adaptive battery enabled, check the installation step to handle it. Now, you can press the "Start Tracking" button in order to connect to the WebSocket and start mocking the location.
After started the connection, you should see those "Connection Server Success" messages, and then a message containing the player's information will be prompt every second, you can now switch to the ATAK app (without closing the SIMTAK app).
This is a Arma 3 addon for streaming unit locations to TAK End User Devices using a OpenTAKServer.
