BarnardHQ Professional Aerial Operations

What actually happens to your drone stream when your SaaS subscription lapses?

With most platforms — DroneSense, FlytBase, LiveU — the answer is simple: nothing works. Your stream goes dark. Your data is locked. Your operation stops.

We built eyeson differently.

eyeson is self-hosted. That means the software lives on YOUR server. Not ours. When you install it, it's yours. If you ever stop paying us — for whatever reason — the software keeps running. No kill switch. No remote lockout. No hostage situation.

Let that sink in for a second.

You're not renting access to a platform. You're buying software that you own the deployment of. Your server. Your data. Your rules.

Here's the real-world math that nobody else will show you:

DroneSense charges $1,500 to $5,000 per drone per year. Per drone. If you're running five drones, you're looking at $25,000 a year — and the day you cancel, everything stops.

FlytBase meters you per viewer minute. Every person watching your stream costs you money. Scale up an operation or run a public safety event with hundreds of observers, and that bill compounds fast.

LiveU requires $10,000+ just to get started with hardware.

Blu-Link is $3,000 to $5,000 per hardware unit.

eyeson Solo? $149 setup. $39 a month. Unlimited drones. Unlimited viewers. $617 for your entire first year.

Team ops: $299 setup, $89 a month.
Agency scale: $499 setup, $209 a month.
Full managed deployment: $999 setup, $499 a month.

And every single tier runs on infrastructure you control.

The companion Android app captures your full DJI controller screen — OSD data included — and streams it with sub-second WebRTC latency. We're not approximating real-time. We're delivering it.

This isn't a cloud product dressed up as infrastructure. This is actual self-hosted software built for operators who understand what data sovereignty means in the field.

If your drone operation depends on a third-party cloud staying alive, staying affordable, and staying available — you have a single point of failure you don't control.

We think that's the wrong way to build critical operations.

So we didn't.

Links in the description to get started, see pricing, and deploy your own instance today.

Your server. Your data. Your rules.

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BarnardHQ Professional Aerial Operations

What happens to your drone operation when the SaaS company you depend on goes under?

It happens more than people talk about. A startup raises a round, burns through it, and one Tuesday morning you get the email: "We're shutting down services on April 30th."

Your entire live streaming setup — gone. Your viewer links — dead. Your mission-critical workflow — starts over from scratch.

This is the hidden risk of cloud-dependent drone streaming, and almost nobody in the industry talks about it because the vendors selling you those subscriptions have zero incentive to bring it up.

Here's how eyeson was built differently.

**Your server. Your data. Your rules.**

eyeson is self-hosted. That means the software lives on infrastructure you control — your cloud account, your on-premise server, your rules. When you deploy eyeson, you own the deployment. We don't hold your streams hostage. We don't sit between you and your viewers.

And here's the part that really matters: if your subscription ever lapses — for any reason — the software keeps running. No lock-out. No "your account has been suspended" screen mid-mission. You don't lose access to a platform you've built workflows around just because a payment failed or you needed to pause for a slow quarter.

Compare that to what you're probably paying right now:

→ DroneSense: $1,500–$5,000 per year, per drone. Per. Drone.
→ FlytBase: Metered per viewer minute. The more people watching your stream, the bigger your bill.
→ Blu-Link: $3,000–$5,000 in hardware per unit before you've streamed a single frame.
→ LiveU: $10,000+ just to get started.

eyeson Solo is $149 setup and $39/month. That's $617 for your entire first year — unlimited drones, unlimited viewers, sub-second WebRTC latency.

Not per drone. Not per viewer. Total.

The companion Android app captures your full DJI controller screen including OSD data, so your ground operators and remote stakeholders see exactly what the pilot sees — altitude, speed, battery, all of it — in real time over a stream you control.

If you're running a team or an agency, the numbers scale accordingly:

→ Team: $299 setup + $89/month
→ Agency: $499 setup + $209/month
→ Managed (we handle deployment): $999 setup + $499/month

Every tier. Self-hosted. Zero cloud dependency.

The question isn't whether you can afford to switch to eyeson.

The question is how long you can afford to keep paying per-drone, per-minute, per-everything fees to a platform you don't own and can't control.

Link in the description to get started or book a demo. We'll show you the full setup — live — so you can see exactly what you're getting before you commit to anything.

Your operation shouldn't be one vendor email away from falling apart.

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BarnardHQ Professional Aerial Operations

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