WarDragon Pro Open-Source, Cost-Effective Rugged Drone Detection + More (ANTSDR e200)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this video, I’m thrilled to introduce the WarDragon Pro Kit-a versatile, advanced drone detection system that goes beyond just Bluetooth and Wi-Fi based Remote ID. Remote ID, sometimes called the “digital license plate” of drones, broadcasts crucial flight information so that security teams, law enforcement, and other stakeholders can monitor drone activity in real time.
Key Highlights
Multi-Protocol Drone Detection
While the WarDragon Pro excels at detecting BT and Wi-Fi Remote IDs, it’s also equipped with an ANTSDR e200 capable of detecting DJI’s Drone ID-and new firmware (coming soon) aims to identify various other drone video/data links.
Long-Range Coverage & Expandable Hardware
With specialized antennas, LNAs, and BPFs, the WarDragon Pro can detect signals from several kilometers away. This customizable hardware approach allows you to fine-tune for specific frequencies or strengthen range based on your application.
TAK/ATAK Integration & Third-Party iOS App
The internal computer stats and GPS location of the WarDragon Pro can seamlessly interface with TAK/ATAK, delivering real-time data for situational awareness.
A third-party developer named Luke is working on an iOS app that connects directly to the WarDragon Pro’s ZMQ servers or via multicast, making deployment more flexible in diverse operating environments.
Future-Ready & Highly Adaptable
From law enforcement to commercial drone monitoring, the WarDragon Pro’s modular design means continuous expansion with firmware updates. You’ll be prepared to detect emerging drone signals and protocols as they evolve.
Whether you’re involved in drone security, search & rescue, or simply need to keep an eye on drone activity, the WarDragon Pro Kit is a next-level solution that’s built to adapt and grow with the changing landscape of UAV technology. Watch the video to see it in action and learn more about its cutting-edge features.
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Love how this project is evolving into something great!
Bro you put in alot of work in from the operating system to the the hardware and youtube videosand thank you for doing it
Just in time! Thank you!
really appreciate your work bro
This is what I’m talkin about!
I was talking about this exact subject several days ago and was hoping you'd chime in. How about a drone with an onboard SDR, directional antenna(s) and a downlink (900 Mhz ISM?) to the drone operator to direction find the rogue drone operator's uplink to their drone and track it back to the rogue operator? No decoding necessary just DF tracking. Even better if the drone would auto track, follow and report.
BTW your audio is popping on the "Ps" maybe overdriving the ADC or maybe need a pop filter for your mic.
One thing I have not thought of a solution for is tracking Combat drones that are programmed with target GPS co-ordinates and no RF link to or from an operator..... any ideas? I wonder if GPS receivers used in a drone would have any IF signal leakage that could be tracked... but if the GPS receiver is direct conversion that would not work...
I'm not even close to being at your level of coding... my background is in RF and IT. I do appreciate your excellent work on DragonOS... I have been installing it on Ham friend's computers. All but 1 of my computers are running Linux OS including DragonOS on several.
Great work as usual. Keep at it!
Thanks for the responds and feedback! Been trying so hard to pull together a drone with equipment on it (SDRs, PIs, Jetson, etc) just been taking so much longer then I originally thought as I teamed up with someone to handle that part. In fact, another person is making a gimbal mount that will spin and aim a directional antenna towards the video links!
As for the popping, I wonder if that’s the same popping I tried to selectively edit out quickly, it was so annoying. Sounded like I was doing something with my lips or popping gum. I have a super cheap headset so maybe all I need is this filter you’re saying. Probably about time I invest in a decent headset. Thanks for the motivation.
Ordered a pop filter or so I think I did. It’s a foam cover for the end of the mic, right?
Great video! I’ve got a dji M350, happy to haul your ideas on the drone and help you test it. The drone is capable of carrying a few kilograms as payload. I’m in Detroit area if interested
I went and looked that up, that’s awesome! I’d definitely love to get some gear up on it and in a video ha!
Yeah man, would be interesting to turn the drone into a “looking glass”
❤ Thanks
noice.
Drone motors operate at high frequencies due to the need for small size combined with high output. Typical frequencies include 3,000-5,000 Hz, but there are plenty of high-performing models operating at up to 10,000 Hz. Any thoughts on the signature from the actual motors, is the electrical emf significant or not? Thanks
That’s a good question that I do not have an answer to. If it was detectable, I wonder at what range? At some point I figure there’s going to have to be computer vision detection/visual confirmation in the loop.
@cemaxecuter7783 similar to how there are databases for ships motors and props. Sonic signature. In this case though there is some sort of electro magnetic signature for the frequencies mentioned. Thanks for the reply
Have you explored PandwaRF?
" is a family of pocket-sized, portable RF analysis tools operating the sub-1 GHz range.
It allows the capture, analysis and re-transmission of RF via an Android device or a Linux PC.
Practically, it removes the ‘standard SDR Grind’ of capturing, demodulating, analyzing, modifying and replaying by hand - replacing it with a simple but powerful interface."
Not yet, but I’ve looked at them a few times. Could be handy.
How would you go about integrating this into an optical tracking system? I have some camera gimbals that I would like to use to get an eye on drones. I control the gimbals with a python gui on either ubuntu 24.04 or Raspi OS.
Talking with a couple people now - one in reference to gimbles and computer vision and the other with RF guiding antennas. If there’s detections with gps coordinates you could pluck those out and slew the camera for confirmation. That’d be great.
Attach a camera and gimble to the WarDragon and do it all with the available compute.
@@cemaxecuter7783 Sounds like one path is to recieve a set of gps coordinates from the war dragon, let the gimbal do the math based on its own gps coordinates to swing the cameras over to the right spot. Then let my thermal camera and mv take over from there. Or I could keep the gimbal simple and let the war dragon run the machine vision algos. Great stuff excited to try this out.
@@cemaxecuter7783 there is a project that I've seen IIRC on The Thought Emporium channel that visually depicts WiFi/2.4 Ghz signals and strength.... the display looks like a thermal camera. Combine that with camera/Gimbal azimuth/elevation and GPS...? Not the software app "WiFi Radar"... this was a hardware project. I'm looking for the video now....
Edit: upon further thought it seems there would be some difficulty with my idea because of all the WiFi signals as background noise... maybe AI to identify the target signal based on collected/observed parameters then track it. It would be ideal if the observation drone could lock onto the target drone or targt drone operation site and track/follow it.
I don't think you can rely on relative position just from gps coordinates. Tracking for elevation would still be difficult without letting thermal/nv use image recognition tracking.
Is there some special reason you selected remote ID. I just bring it up since there is a lot of clever open-source code for manipulating remote ID, such as spoofing it. Kevin Finisterre did the original exploitation. I think in 2017. There was an open-source system floating around in 2008 that had nice features around tracking people of interest and pulling and associating other data to it, like social media and geolocating. At a later time, exploitation was added but that does not seem like something your trying to do. Alo. Also, what antennae are you using? 1 to 2 km in an urban area is really good. In a more open area, it's okay, depending on your build. If you have time, consider fingerprinting. It's helpful to track phones over days, weeks, and months. Grab the low and high-level features of the signal, and you can do some sophisticated analysis. Also, I hope you have checked the laws and then become extremely conservative about doing any public collection.
Remote ID is detectable and decodable and while it can be spoofed, looking at it over time would surely weed out a simple spoof that’s static/stationary and has no changes in RSSI/power. I’d like to layer it with other techniques such as the video link detection that’d be harder to spoof. Currently not aiming for exploitation, but rather a system capable of providing SA for drones and other EM activities. Someone in Europe reported they detected the RID off a DJI at 6km with LNA/BPF added. The stock antennas are 8dBi. I’m not certain there’s an issue detecting and decoding RID as theres various APP and hardware offerings ranging from cheap to extremely expensive. I’m trying to hit a low to middle ground while also offering the flexibility of open source that people can do as they please with. Soon I’ll have a Java based tool that’ll handle things much more elegantly.
The individual helping by making the mobile app is looking to add different techniques to detect spoofing. I forgot to mention that.
Glad my drones don't use radio anymore. I dont have remote ID. I do have IP though since im using starlink in my project or cell phones embeded into the drone as the brain.
Im also using end to end rotationg key encryption. ( made by some students at my college )
My new tech makes drones attsck hardened
Also im working on full autonomous drone code architecture. Soon you wont be able to detect us at all.
I do mask the IPS and my server tech is locked down at the moment. I also started messing with rotating servers
For those situations where regulations apply and are within detectable means, this applies - for remote ID over cellular or for situations were there’s no RF for whatever means - I suppose you’d have to count on Radar, Visual Detection, and/or maybe noise. But even in your case, the first part of what you mention is RF based or could be - but not detectable/decoded by what I’m showing. For full autonomous.. hopefully one of the previously mentioned techniques could be used otherwise.. I’ll start building my bunker lol.
@cemaxecuter7783 actually brother you seem super well equipped in knowledge of current technologies in the drone feild. I subscribed, I'll probably be back to actually figure out how to get in contact with you for collaboration on this and future technologies.
I have assembled a small team of students at the moment under my professors and we are actively working on cutting-edge drone architecture.
Eventually we want to be able to stage an attack on the drone network code in real time in lab so we can figure out how to beat most attack vectors.
We don't actually have a drone working at the moment, just a mass of test hardware and a lot of code.
Doing feild testing using cars at the moment. We drive the hardware far away from the base stations for range evaluation and to see of the Navi code will plot the path to the next cell tower.
We just started using starlink, which mostly works the exact same though. The navigation code is slightly modified.
Shoot me a message via cemaxecuter.com - I try to stay on top of email
@cemaxecuter7783 I reached out, I left an email with my number and my alternate private email
Any idea about range?
I’ve received test results ranging up to 6km with external LNA/BPF added. Me personally I’ve detected the BT RID I added onto a drone from 1.5Km with stock 8dBi antenna I include. I need to do further distance testing. It was just that that’s all I was comfortable flying the drone out during that one test.
I would say ranges in urban areas are gonna vary, but if you’re able to get the correct cabling and external antenna is up high, you’re probably gonna get kilometers in range.
Need links for hardware please
cemaxecuter.com/?product=wardragon-pro-kit
Or are you asking for a by item list - that I don’t really have made up and available. Big pieces though are a sniffle compatible dongle (sonoff is my choice), the AntSDR e200, esp32 s3 w/ modifications and at least a pc running DragonOS. For the PCs I build, I do very specific post install work that I can’t cover in the DragonOS ISO alone.
the US "Drones" are not the usual drones ;)
Bro! You need to get your ass to New Jersey and actually put your expertise to use in a real world situation!
I actually took a short trip! :)
@@cemaxecuter7783please say hello to E.T.s for us! 😅
lol man.. those are commercial planes..
And probably some stars too ha
😂
Where is all this open source info.....time to build
Check out some of my previous videos where I break down a good portion of the code. Also check my github DragonSync repo that I’m still working on
github.com/alphafox02/DragonSync
There’s a lot of moving parts and firmware etc required too.
Would love a github of this project
Here’s the DragonSync repo - the python code and not the iOS app.
github.com/alphafox02/DragonSync
As far as all other components, it’s made up of (currently) various projects and hardware.
@cemaxecuter7783 thank you!
Dumb this down with a better GUI & I will instant buy
Works with both ATAK/iTAK and the iOS app so far. I know I get technical in the video, but I’m trying to show what’s going on behind the scenes. Essential one can purchase, plug into a LAN, point iOS APP at IP for direct ZMQ connection and pull in info. It’s gunna get easier though, have someone working on a tool that handles taking over dongles and creating multicast traffic.
Let me know some things you’d like to see as well. I’ll try and do a video on this other gui I’m referring to soon.
Wouldn't this be just as feasible with a much cheaper SDR? Say, a Hack RF One?
Not the advanced things I’m referring to. It’s ran in FPGA on the AntSDR.
@@cemaxecuter7783 I thought the Hack RF had an FPGA but you're right. It's just a CPLD.
@@cemaxecuter7783 Oh, interesting. Hack RF is only a "CPLD" (Complex Programmable Logic Device). A step down from an FPGA. I didn't know that, thank you.
Can't they just use proprietary network protocols to bypass this? Why use standardized tech if you're using drones for warfare... makes more sense to just create your own.
Not sure who you mean by they? For FAA remote ID it’s a standard and required by law - it’s the nature of the design. As far as video feeds, that’s something that’ll hopefully be handled by the SDR. In terms of warfare, I can’t speak to what all is present there. Obviously things such as Remote ID wouldn’t be turned on, unless someone’s really wanting to have a bad day.
Is it possible to hack 5g network???
Check out my other video on 5Ghoul.