Remote ID receivers

A Remote ID receiver is a listen radio. It sits still. It does not fly. Dark Sky Systems LLC sells receive-only kits. When an aircraft is transmitting the required US Remote ID message, the receiver can decode it.

ASTM F3411 is that message set. OpenDroneID is the public format over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The radio in the kit determines which of those paths it can hear. We map fields as sent. We do not invent a track.

Typical fields, when the aircraft sends them: aircraft ID, ID type, latitude, longitude, altitude, heading, speed, operator location, and self-ID text. ID type is serial, registration, session, or network ID as broadcast. Operator location is the location in the message. We do not find the operator by direction-finding. We do not invent a house.

US Remote ID sits under 14 CFR Part 89. The receiver receives broadcasts. It does not enforce Remote ID. It is not a substitute for it. A craft that must broadcast, and is broadcasting, can appear. A craft that is not broadcasting cannot.

Power is USB-C on the pocket and board kits. The Raspberry Pi kits are a host computer plus a Remote ID board. Field Pad is the map and spectrum on a host we build. In every case the radio is receive-only. Transmit is none.

Dark or RID-off aircraft are not in the picture. If the radio is off, there is no message. A quiet map is not a clearance of those aircraft. Quiet means no live cooperative tracks. That is all it means.

Analog video-only craft are not OpenDroneID. An FPV flyer that sends video and no Remote ID does not appear on the receiver. The receiver is not a camera. It is not a video decoder. It is not a spectrum analyzer. It does not sweep every signal on 2.4 GHz and call the sweep an aircraft.

This is not a jammer. Dark Sky Systems LLC does not jam, spoof, or intercept. No take-over. No effects. Antenna gain is a radio. Rings on a map are scale. We do not publish a detection range.

ADS-B is a different layer. Crewed transponders on 1090 MHz, and in the US on 978 MHz. Some Raspberry Pi kits hear that layer as well. The ADS-B feeder kit hears only that layer. See Remote ID and ADS-B below.

Dark Sky Systems LLC is not a licensed security company. Not dispatch. If people are in danger, call 911 first.

One company. One listen line. Pocket screens, a desk node, a bare board, indoor and outdoor Raspberry Pi kits, an ADS-B feeder with no Remote ID board, and Dark Sky Console. Shop prices below are Ready-to-Run. Hardware Only is the same kit. You load the image.

Ready-to-Run is the shop sticker. We load the image before it ships. Extra business day. Labor, not a radio markup. Hardware Only ships as hardware. Hardware Only vs Ready-to-Run.

Pocket Remote ID Receiver is the best seller. One-piece USB-C receiver. 1.14 inch color screen. Three buttons. Cooperative Remote ID in the hand or on a command desk. Ready-to-Run $129. Hardware Only $79.

Pocket Remote ID Receiver w.FL is the same pocket screen with a w.FL jack. Not u.FL. RP-SMA to w.FL adapter in the box. Ready-to-Run $139. Hardware Only $89. Antenna gain is a radio. Rings are map scale.

Pocket Remote ID w.FL + antenna puts the pocket w.FL, a 2.4 GHz omni, and the pigtail in one checkout. Ready-to-Run $149. Hardware Only $99.

Desk Remote ID Receiver is the door or desk node. Remote ID board, OLED, small weather box. Ready-to-Run $179. Hardware Only $129.

ESP32 Receiver Board is the bare USB-C ESP32-S3. In stock. No screen, no battery, no box. Plug it into a Raspberry Pi or a host you already own. Ready-to-Run $59. Hardware Only $39.

Raspberry Pi Receiver is the indoor named-site kit. Raspberry Pi 5, Remote ID board, USB receive radio, 1090 whip. Cooperative Remote ID and 1090 ADS-B. Ready-to-Run $479. Hardware Only $399.

Raspberry Pi Receiver Outdoor leaves the receiver outside. Weather box, 9 dBi 1090 on a mast, plant, or fence. Antenna gain is a radio. Ready-to-Run $729. Hardware Only $649.

Raspberry Pi ADS-B Feeder is 1090 and 978 aircraft broadcasts only. No Remote ID board. Do not buy it for drones. Ready-to-Run $369. Hardware Only $299.

Dark Sky Field Pad is $5,900. A device we build. Same glass as /console/. Green is on your list. Red is transmitting and not on the list.

Start with the job, not the catalog. A screen in the hand is a pocket receiver. A named indoor site that also hears ADS-B is a Raspberry Pi. A mast, plant, or fence is the outdoor Pi. The map and spectrum is Field Pad, a device we build. Pick one computer. Add the other only as a second node.

Two other decisions sit next to this one. Pi vs ESP32 is the computer. Hardware Only vs Ready-to-Run is who loads the image. Field Pad sample is the satellite map plus waterfall.

A desk without a color screen is Desk Remote ID Receiver. A host you already own takes the ESP32 Receiver Board, in stock. Neither flies. Both are receive-only.

Two layers. Do not mix them. Remote ID is the drone broadcast on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. ADS-B is crewed aircraft transponders. 1090 MHz is Mode S. 978 MHz is US UAT. A quiet Remote ID picture says nothing about ADS-B. A quiet ADS-B picture says nothing about drones.

Raspberry Pi Receiver and Raspberry Pi Receiver Outdoor hear cooperative Remote ID and 1090 ADS-B in one kit. That is the named-site pair.

Raspberry Pi ADS-B Feeder is 1090 and 978 only. No Remote ID board. It will not list a drone. Buy it to feed aircraft broadcasts. Do not buy it as a Remote ID receiver.

Dark Sky Field Pad plots cooperative Remote ID and ADS-B from the radios in the case. Cyan on the map is ADS-B.

Pocket kits hear Remote ID only. They do not include an ADS-B radio. If you need both layers in one box, that is a Raspberry Pi kit, not a pocket screen.