Documentation
Everything from the first SD card to a fielded fleet. New here? Start with Getting Started. Buying parts? The starter kit and tested cameras are under it.
Getting Started
Flash the card, power on, watch your drone. Start here.
Get Started →
Flash Aircast, run the on-device setup wizard, and open the dashboard in about 10 minutes.
Recommended Starter Kit →
Every part with buy links: Pi, 4G modem, camera, flight-controller link. $120–180 all in.
Watch From Anywhere →
Share a browser link through the Aircast cloud, or keep it private on your tailnet.
The Dashboard →
Overview, Network, Streaming and Telemetry pages on the device itself.
Flight Debrief →
Every flight kept as a timeline of what the device noticed, including alerts held back mid-flight.
Aircast Flasher →
Download the Flasher. It fetches the image, sets Wi-Fi and hostname, writes and verifies the card.
Disk Encryption →
Lock the drone’s data to a key server you choose: first boot, the unlock prompt, the recovery key and the boot log.
Ground Control
Telemetry into QGroundControl or Mission Planner over the same link as the video.
QGroundControl →
Aircast QGC: standard QGroundControl with multiple video streams.
SkyDroid H16 →
Run Aircast QGC on the H16 remote and switch the air unit between MIPI and HDMI.
Radio over USB →
Fly over Starlink or 4G with your own EdgeTX radio, every channel on the number your receiver uses.
Telemetry Setup →
Point QGroundControl or Mission Planner at the MAVLink UDP endpoint.
Networking
Tailscale is how you reach the device from anywhere. Headscale if you want to host that yourself.
Install Tailscale →
Mandatory on the drone and on every phone, tablet or laptop that watches it.
Packet Radio →
A wfb-ng link of its own: video and telemetry where there is no cellular coverage, and through jamming.
Headscale Control Server →
Run your own control server and point the device at it with a pre-auth key.
Hardware
Modems, Starlink, power, and keeping a fielded Pi alive.
Waveshare SIM7600G-H 4G HAT →
The recommended modem. Auto-configured over QMI, no AT commands.
Qualcomm 150Mbps 4G LTE USB →
Generic USB sticks: switch them into USB network mode.
Starlink Mini Uplink →
Activation, plan, wiring over Ethernet, power budget and monitoring.
Starlink Dish Status →
Obstruction, latency, loss and throughput from the dish on the dashboard.
Hardware Reliability →
SD endurance classes, symptoms of a dying card, BEC and power-loss practice.
Cameras
Aircast streams any RTSP or ONVIF source. These are the ones we have tested, with connection guides.
Troubleshooting
Named by symptom. Find yours.
Device Unreachable →
Dashboard will not open: .local on Android and Windows, and the recovery hotspot.
Camera Not Showing →
A camera that stops publishing gets a named cause on the Streaming page. Each cause has a fix.
VPN & Browser Conflicts →
Opens in one browser but not another, or the video stays black.
Downloads
The Flasher for your computer, and the Pi images it writes.
Flash your Pi in about 5 minutes
The Aircast Flasher downloads the image, sets Wi-Fi and hostname, and verifies the card.
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