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Viewing and coordinating live streams

Mirada can connect to a live drone feed and show it in the media viewer, so you can watch a flight as it happens — and, on the desktop app, run the detector on it in real time. This page covers everything you do with a single stream. For running several drones at once and pulling them together on a shared map, see Air operations & multi-drone coordination.

Connecting to a live stream

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Open Add Data → Wireless Livestream. There are a few ways to connect:

  • Scan the QR code shown by the pilot’s app — the simplest path.
  • Phone relay — let your phone scan the QR code on this computer’s behalf.
  • Auto-discovered devices — streams on your local network show up in the list; pick one to connect.
  • Stream ID — for a stream coming over the internet, type its Stream ID.

Password-protected streams prompt for their password. For a local-network stream, the pilot accepts your connection request before the video starts. Once connected, the live video appears in the media viewer.

For a direct capture device — such as an HDMI capture dongle on a controller — use Add Data → Wired Livestream instead, which Mirada auto-detects.

Sharing a live stream

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To let someone else watch the same feed, use the Share stream button in the playback controls. Mirada gives you a link you can send to a teammate — they open it to connect to the same live stream from their own copy of Mirada.

Switching between streams

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You can connect to more than one live stream and bounce between them. Each connected stream is its own channel in the sidebar — select one to watch it, and select another to switch. To reconnect to a feed you watched earlier, use Recent Streams in the hamburger menu.

Whenever you pause or scrub back through footage that’s already streamed in, a Realtime button (or the R key) jumps you straight back to live.

Recording a live stream

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Click Record to save the live feed to disk. When you Stop, Mirada turns the recording into a normal video channel in your case — so you can review, scrub, bookmark, and re-run detection on it just like imported footage.

Running the detector on a live stream

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Live detection runs on the desktop app. While streaming, click Record / Detect to record and run the detector on incoming frames at the same time (the config dialog pre-checks Enable Detection). Hits appear in the sidebar as they’re found.

The Live detections control in the playback controls chooses which detection overlays to show:

  • DJI AI — the aircraft’s own on-board detector.
  • Pilot (Eagle Eyes) — the detector running on the controller.
  • Mirada — Mirada’s own live detector, running on this computer.