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    Starlink dish status

    When a Starlink dish is on the same network as your Aircast device, Aircast reads the dish’s local API and shows its health in the Device tab of the app the drone serves, so you can see obstruction, latency, loss, throughput, and alerts without a separate app.

    The Starlink card

    Open Settings → Device → Connection. The Starlink card sits below the cellular modem. On a drone with no dish it just reads no dish.

    What the dish is doing1:22Latency, loss, obstruction, and a reading that admits its age.
    ReadoutWhat it means
    Latency · lossthe line under the badge: round-trip time to the Starlink point of presence, and the packet drop rate. Sustained loss above 10% marks the link degraded.
    Downlink / Uplinkcurrent throughput in each direction. Hidden while the dish has no service.
    Obstructionfraction of the sky currently blocked; a warning shows when the dish is obstructed.
    Uptimehow long the dish has been running since its last reboot.
    Firmwarethe dish’s reported software version.

    A reading that has gone stale is labelled with its age rather than shown as though it were current. A four-minute-old status looks exactly like a healthy one until something tells you how old it is, so the card says. If the last poll failed outright, that error is printed too rather than swallowed: a dish that stopped answering is a different problem from a dish reporting bad numbers.

    The badge on the card summarizes the link at a glance:

    onlineThe dish answered and the link is healthy, with clear sky, low loss and no alerts.
    degradedThe dish is present but struggling: obstructed, high packet loss, or an active alert (thermal throttle, motors stuck, unexpected location). The card explains which.
    no serviceThe dish answers but carries no traffic, and the card names the reason: starting up, stowed, overheated, searching the sky, asleep, or an account problem such as no subscription, away from the service address, roaming not allowed, or moving too fast for the plan.
    unreachableA dish was seen before but the local API is not answering now, so the dish is unplugged, powered off, or the address is wrong. The card says when it last answered.
    no dishNothing has answered at the dish address. On a cellular-only drone this is normal.
    can’t reach / wrong addressThis device has no route to the dish, or something other than a dish answers at the address. Fix the wiring or correct the dish address below.
    no health dataAn encrypted-only terminal, such as Starshield, refused the status request. Video is unaffected; dish health needs Starshield credentials.

    Setting the dish address

    Aircast reaches the dish’s local API at a fixed address. The default, 192.168.100.1:9200, is where a standard Starlink dish serves its API, so most setups need no change. If your dish is reached at a different address (for example behind a router that remaps it), set it here:

    1. In the Starlink card, expand Dish address. It opens by itself when the card reads wrong address.
    2. Enter the address as host:port, a hostname or IP then a colon and the port. Leave the port off and 9200 is assumed.
    3. Press Save. The change is stored on the device and takes effect within a few seconds, with no reboot. Use default puts it back to the standard address.

    The card stays on the page even with no dish, so you can point Aircast at the dish before it’s reachable. After saving, watch the badge: it flips to online once the dish responds at the new address.

    Flash your card in about 5 minutes

    The Aircast Flasher downloads the image, sets Wi-Fi and hostname, and verifies the card.

    Download the Flasher