Watch from anywhere

Publish to the Aircast cloud

On Streaming, expand Manage next to the camera and find Aircast cloud. If the device is signed in to your Aircast account it reads off with a Connect to cloud button, and one click publishes the camera.

Once it says connected, a Watch from anywhere link appears: a browser watch page that streams over WebRTC, with no Tailscale involved. Share it by minting revocable watch links from your cloud dashboard rather than handing out the raw stream URL.

Or keep it on your tailnet

Use this when you want the dashboard, telemetry and video on a private network you control, with no traffic through the Aircast cloud. The device joined your tailnet during setup, and Get Started covers getting your laptop or phone onto it. Install Tailscale has the per-platform detail.

Once both ends are on the tailnet, open the device by its tailnet name. The Flight page answers the three questions worth asking before take-off: is the camera live, is the link up, and can the ground station see the aircraft. Its link row names the address the device is answering on, which is what you hand to anyone else who needs it.

The Streaming page offers the same feed in the forms the rest of your kit wants: Copy RTSP link for QGroundControl, VLC or anything else that speaks RTSP, and a QR code that opens the stream on a phone. The phone has to be signed in to the tailnet too, which is the trade this route makes: everyone who can watch is someone you have already let onto your network.

Hand out the picture, not the device

A share link is one camera and nothing else: no navigation, no settings, no addresses, and no way back into the device. Someone holding the link can watch that camera and reach nothing else, which is what makes it safe to send to a command post or a commander who should not be inside your dashboard.

Create one from Share links on the Streaming page. Label it for whoever is receiving it rather than for the camera: weeks later that label is the only way to tell which of six links belongs to whom, and therefore which one to revoke. Every link is created with an expiry rather than living forever, and the page states when it stops working.

Turning a link off stops it opening immediately. It stays listed as spent instead of disappearing, because a link you cannot see is a link you cannot be sure you revoked.