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DRI (Direct Remote Identification)

Dirk_ANAFI

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With the last FreeFlight 6 and firmware update the Anafi is able to send DRI messages (European format).
Is there already a smartphone app to receive these messages?
 
It has to do with the proposed new European laws. If they approve of the Parrot method, then our Anafi will receive a European classification and be allowed to fly with the stricter laws. That is when you broadcast the signal. It will involve the Anafi app needing internet connection to broadcast the location. Of course the anafi itself will not broadcast anything, sorry Dirk
 
Hi Test2000,

I think, the Anafi broadcasts indeed!
This is called "Broadcast Remote ID". The drone itself sends DRI messages locally over it's existing Wifi transmitter.
Therefore I was asking for an app able to receive these messages.
Perhaps you mean "Network Remote ID"!? I don't think that this was implemented just now.
 
What do you want to do with this?
It's DRI, it's for the authorities and it's for identification.
Originally, all drones broadcast their telemetry data, but only the remote control that was paired with it was able to decode it. Because of the drone laws, the authorities have obliged drone manufacturers to make their encryption available and compatible with the authorities' devices.
This way, the authority can see all the drones flying in the airspace, the drone's home point and their route, which is stored on the receiver device.
We users have nothing to do with this.

In America, there was a plan by DJI to have an app so that anyone could see anyone else's drone. This caused a great outcry, saying that bad people could then find the owner of the drone via the drone's home point and take away their expensive device.
 
What do you want to do with this?
It's DRI, it's for the authorities and it's for identification.
Originally, all drones broadcast their telemetry data, but only the remote control that was paired with it was able to decode it. Because of the drone laws, the authorities have obliged drone manufacturers to make their encryption available and compatible with the authorities' devices.
This way, the authority can see all the drones flying in the airspace, the drone's home point and their route, which is stored on the receiver device.
We users have nothing to do with this.

In America, there was a plan by DJI to have an app so that anyone could see anyone else's drone. This caused a great outcry, saying that bad people could then find the owner of the drone via the drone's home point and take away their expensive device.
The drone control stream can still be technically encrypted, but drone systems have to transmit certain information messages (drone ID, pilot ID, height, course ...) now. These messages don't contain all control infos of the control stream, but only the mentioned infos.
The DRI messages are not secret and of course not only for authorities.
You can compare this with ADS-B or AIS: Nearly every plane or ship sends it's data (position, height, ICAO, type of plane/ship ...). These data can be used by authorities but of course also by other planes/ships (e.g. for collision alert) and by everyone.
 

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