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  • Ah a fellow perun addict.

    Honestly I think he oversold the effectiveness of the systems. The work I did is still ongoing so I’m up to speed on the available systems, though mostly on the RF side. If you watch the stuff coming out of Ukraine the drones aren’t really being impeded all that much and if you know how to use ardupilot and selectively enable your data link you can pretty much get away with whatever you want because the US isn’t gonna allow anyone to jam GPS right next to multiple major airports. If you want to avoid even relying on GPS there are starting to be mature solutions out there too.








  • Yeah the FPV community is way better because they actually have to know what they’re doing mostly. They’re mildly noncompliant but only regarding the regs that shouldn’t apply to the size of stuff they fly; RID, registration, and BVLOS don’t make sense for airframes lighter than a goose. They tend to avoid other people because they understand the public is wary of drones and they’re wary of Karens and untrained cops. They put far more hours on their airframes than any of the other amateur operators but every single time I’ve been near a drone doing something dangerous, stupid, or annoying it was a DJI.





  • As you’ve probably seen you can buy semi dumb security cameras from Armcrest/Loryta/Empiretech/whatever that’ll run off of a barrel jack and/or Ethernet cable. Most of them have the option to insert an SD card and they’ll event log to that, at which point just don’t plug in the Ethernet cable except to manually pull recordings.

    One other thing to think about is maybe consider “Frigate NVR” running on a pi or something and connected to cameras on it’s own wifi or Ethernet network that’s isolated from the Internet and your LAN. It’ll make local access easier because as with just about anything security related you’ll want to periodically check to make sure it’s actually working. You should be able to setup the pi to serve as the WiFi access point for all this.