Drone video and telemetry, live over 4G or Starlink.
Radio links run out of range. Flash one SD card for a Raspberry Pi with a 4G modem and a camera, and the feed reaches your ground station from anywhere a phone gets signal.
On your phone?
Setup runs on a computer, where you write the SD card. Email yourself the link and pick it up there.
Or read the setup guide firstBuilding it in the open · what to buy
Questions? Message me on Telegram or WhatsApp
From SD card to live video in three steps
Bring a Raspberry Pi, a 4G modem with a data SIM or a Starlink dish, and an RTSP camera: about $120–180 in parts. The rest is three steps.
Flash one SD card
The Aircast Flasher downloads the image and writes your Wi-Fi onto the card. No terminal.
Power on the Pi
On first boot it brings up the 4G modem or Starlink and joins your network.
Fly with live video
A setup wizard finds your camera and flight controller. Then point QGroundControl or Mission Planner at the device.
Ten minutes in, this is your device in the fly app — telemetry connected, link and health live, one tap from adding a camera.
It lists what you need, then downloads the Aircast Flasher.
Built for drones you can't see
Inspection crews, BVLOS operators and rescue teams fly it where radio links end. Tap the mission closest to yours and I'll follow up about it.
Flying something else? Tell me what you're building.
Every page, built for the field
Cameras, telemetry, and connection — each its own page in the Device tab, served from the drone. Tap the mission view to enlarge.
Everything in one view — flight plan, live video, and telemetry together on a standard ground station.
Cameras
The video plane, powered by MediaMTX — ~300 ms glass-to-glass WebRTC served straight from the device.
Telemetry
MAVLink over the same 4G link — point QGroundControl or Mission Planner at the endpoint.
Connection
Cellular, Wi‑Fi, and a Tailscale panel — reach the device and streams from anywhere.
From the people flying it
Unprompted reports from pilots who put AirCast on their own aircraft.
1 hour on one battery, 60 km flown. 4G video and control system. Open source, free — the server, the VPN, all of it written in Georgia. It works perfectly, go use it.
The software is free. The cloud is $9 a drone.
Aircast runs on your own Raspberry Pi, or in beta on an Orange Pi or Radxa board, and on your own network, with no license to renew. Add Aircast Cloud when you want every flight's video and telemetry stored, analysed and watchable from anywhere.
Aircast
The software on your drone and ground station
- HD video streaming over 4G or Starlink
- Full telemetry & MAVLink support
- Setup app served by the drone, no account
- Encrypted end to end, nothing routes through our servers
- Self-hosted VPN: Tailscale or Headscale
- Direct founder support
No account, no credit card. You buy the Pi, modem and SIM plan once.
Aircast Cloud
Storage and flight analysis for every flight
- 100 GB of flight video and telemetry storage per drone
- Every flight analysed: track, distance, height and take-off place
- Watch live from any browser, no VPN
- Shareable video exports with the flight data burned in
- Encrypted at rest, private to your account
- Cancel any time, full refund within 14 days of your first payment
Free while card payments are being set up. Billing starts only after you subscribe.
Built by people who fly
Decades of combined experience across aviation, streaming systems, and mobile development — and direct founder support when you need it.
- —10 years building web and mobile systems across e-commerce, fintech, and SaaS.
- —Built the AirCast streaming pipeline — WebRTC video from the device over 4G and Starlink.
- —Led teams of up to 10 engineers on the architecture of complex products.
- —FPV pilot — builds and flies his own quads, so AirCast is designed by someone who actually flies.
Go · React · WebRTC · Raspberry Pi · MAVLink · Node.js
- —15+ years with UAVs — prepares and tunes airframes and hardware for testing.
- —Integrates the AirCast module across platforms: fixed-wing, VTOL, and multirotor.
- —Runs field trials of video and telemetry on real aircraft.
ArduPilot · On-board integration · Field testing · Airframe tuning
UmbrellaWe partner with the Umbrella team, who design and build custom drones for specialized applications — including BVLOS operations.
Flash it. Power on. Fly.
One SD card, ~10 minutes to the drone's setup screen, and it's live over 4G or Starlink — no account, no cloud, nothing to pay us.
Want the details first? Read the docs. Questions? Message me on Telegram or WhatsApp — I personally help with setup.