Documentation

Hover, in plain language.

What Hover is, how it works, and how to use it: for the operators who fly, the admins who run the org, and the IT and procurement teams evaluating it.

Hover is a managed drone-relay platform. We carry live video and MAVLink between a drone in the field and the people who need to see and respond to it (command staff, dispatch, mutual-aid partners, public-information officers) across the cellular and satellite links agencies actually have.

Start with Concepts if the words are new, How it works if you want the architecture, or jump to whatever question you walked in with.

Start here

Getting started

From signup to a live feed: create your org, install Hover, create a deployment, and pair the field and command-post sides.

Architecture

How it works

Three components, one stream of video, one stream of telemetry, between the drone and the room. Built to hold up on real cellular networks.

Vocabulary

Concepts & glossary

Orgs, tenants, teams, deployments, roles, tiers, flights, the relay, public viewers, Sentry, detections, assets: the words the rest of the docs use.

Integrations

Connect Hover to Claude

Add Hover to Claude Code, claude.ai, or Claude Desktop with a browser sign-in, no API key, and ask about your fleet from where you work. Read-only and scoped to your org.

DJI drones

DJI Enterprise live streaming

Get a Matrice or Mavic 3 Enterprise drone's live feed into Hover over custom RTMP: the Pilot 2 menu path, stream settings, and what to expect.

DJI drones

DJI consumer live streaming

Get a Mini, Air, Mavic, Neo, or Flip drone's live feed into Hover over custom RTMP from the DJI Fly app.

Sensor mesh

Wave height

How an ocean drifter measures significant wave height from its own motion on the water, and what to expect from a reading.

Sensor mesh

Wave period

How the drifter reads dominant wave period, the rhythm of the strongest swell, from the same motion analysis.

Deployment

What to expect when deploying

What's managed for you, what your team brings, the network it needs, and the rough timeline from signup to a live feed.

Security

Security and data handling

Authentication, per-session credentials, transport, what's logged, what Hover keeps, and what it doesn't.

FAQ

Common questions

CGNAT, drone compatibility, recording and evidence, compliance, and how pricing actually works.

More guides on the way

Deeper guides for the Hover CLI, the Hover Relay desktop app, and the dashboard are rolling out. The first sensor mesh pages are live: how the ocean drifters measure wave height and wave period. This page links the rest as they land. To start now, follow Getting started or sign up and create your first deployment.

Where to go next

Evaluating drone-streaming options? Start with How it works and the FAQ. Looking at procurement? Deployment and Security are the two pages your IT and legal teams will want. The Security page covers how authentication and credentials work, what data Hover holds, what it logs, and the current compliance posture.

Questions a page didn't answer?

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