50 km of HD video, low-latency control
How it works
Glass to glass in tens of milliseconds
The signal path from the camera on the drone to a screen on the ground, with two output paths at the receiver.
Two links
Video down, control up
One radio pair carries a broadcast video stream and a bidirectional control link.
H.264 or H.265 encoded on the companion, broadcast on 5.8 GHz with forward error correction. No association, no handshake, no IP addresses. Packets that arrive are decoded, and FEC recovers the rest.
Telemetry streams from the flight controller to the companion over serial, then to the ground station over WebSocket in field mode or MQTT in cloud mode. Gamepad input runs at 50 Hz.
Transport modes
Three modes, one link
Direct RF broadcast with no internet required. Video and control travel over the local link with sub-100 ms latency. This is the primary path for active flight.
No dedicated box
A laptop as the ground station
The RF video and telemetry link ships today and runs on a dedicated ground station. Direct Link, in development, drives the same USB radio straight from a laptop with a userspace driver, so a Mac, Windows, or Linux machine becomes the ground station with no separate box.
See the whole platform
The video and data link is one layer of a complete, open drone stack.
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