Appreciate the mention, thanks! Looks like a neat TOC-in-a-briefcase setup 👍👍

S2 UNDERGROUND MENTIONED!!! LETS GO!!!

I believe S2 underground also has a decent application video.

Thank you for sticking to your promise to elaborate on ATAK usage, it’s so helpful to have an authoritative voice for beginners (me lol) to follow

"Water's rising. Time to start collecting your maps." Genius. The whole setup and delivery. A very welcome reminder that I (all of us, really) need to not only be learning, but engaging and practicing. Thank you

Thanks for the shout out T.RexLabs!

S2 reference? Ugga bugga, one of us!! One of us!!

I literally said to my screen "Of course you'd take the old one, there's 50 gold sovereigns in there!" 😆

Just flooded in houston. We used atak so me, wife and kids could all align at school and work and figure out how to get home. Super helpful piece of software, and we learned about it from you guys.

What a host of information you provide in this video! I've got a lot to research and practice. The ATAK plugin for garmin watches blew my mind.

S2 Underground name drop?! Based.

BIG SHOUTOUT TO S2UNDERGROUND!!!

I am not the techiest person, and I love the idea of implementing some of these things. I consume all S2 Underground content too. These surface level videos that give an idea of all that can be done are great, but I want to see how each component is configured!

Perfect timing, right as i get back into using meshtastic. Good refresher from s2's old vid

A good all be it DIY solution for camera are the ESP-Cam boards, a 3d printed enclosure along with an 18650 and you have some small and quick to deploy camera.

I'll be honest I just found this channel but if all your content is as instructive as this video I'll be here a lot!

When you're walking through a building and see a map of the building, don't take a photo of it, use your camera's scan function. It produces a much better quality copy.

Using ATAK for disaster response and printing out paper maps for other team members reminds me of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

I had an ATAK operation this morning, getting to the bathroom! 😎

I can't decide which I want more. That briefcase or that horse trailer jet.

Youve not only successfully sold me on ATAK, But also every devuce you've shown here. I still worry about the devices traceablility, but the utility of this is far greater than i ever thought any civilian would have access to.

I'll give you a scenario to work with. Squad size team of people dispersed in an urban area with requisite equipment and training. One gets a call that a CHOP/CHAZ style zone has been setup and a relative is stranded inside, but precise location is unknown. The team has comms that can get them to a staging area. They arrive on site with the gear they need to run covert or overt unsupported extraction using items available on the civilian market (including vehicles). They need to determine location of the stranded person and extract them.

So mind boggling to see my hometown on the KZfaqs. Also, nanerpuddinfestvle is GOATed

The SD card thing is amazing especially when Internet is out or unwanted.... To ba able to assemble a group of friends to help move furniture during a storm can all be planned out and gone over by each individual before meeting to save that leather sofa

Isaac, I have been watching every t rex labs video, and I have to say, I love how u tell us what's possible but you don't spell out HOW to do it. It frustrates me but I love it because it makes me think and explore

Always a exciting experience watching your videos

S2 baby!

Trying to get my friends onboard with this technology. It needs to be practiced and drilled as much as the sexy cool-guy gun stuff.

Sweet mother of mercy! 😮

Great video. Practical application and what to learn helps me know where to start!

For your upgraded internet/wifi gateway/router, consider watching the KZfaq vid from Dave's (Plummer) Garage about the Spitz AX 5G Wi-Fi 6 Cellular Gateway, a multi-wan, 2 sim, travel router.

much more content like this please!

Great video, well produced, and thought provoking. I love T.RexLabs!

A thing to be aware of, "Flipper Zero"-esque devices can witness the area network you are operating. I'd recommend a multiple-kill switch device so you can shut down your network if austere conditions arise. Not sure how this would really be achieved, but it should probably be considered.

Love the vids you’re putting out Isaac.

Yessssss! Been waiting for this one!! 😍

Best channel in the entire world

I really need some off line ip cameras that don't need the cloud. Likely I am not the only one watching your stuff. Let us know if you find anything worthwhile!

Great video

Thanks for the work you put into this. And S2 I have been watching and building ATAK with Lora over in my neck of the woods. I couldn’t have done this with you both. I have referenced you now 3 year old ATAK video to many people.

Indeed Christmas comes twice a year. Love the Atak shoutout gents keep up the good work!

Nah, I'm thinking using Terraform to throw up a FreeTak server on AWS when needed. I like the secret Anytone radio. Sneeky. :)

The irony being how ubiquitous wireless earbuds have become. You should get a dreadlock mullet and pink foam rubber sneakers to complete the look though.

LOVING these TAK videos, please keep them coming! WOuld be great to do one on UAS Tools with a Thermal Drone integration...

Good shit guys. Thank you for the content!

Very inspiring, thanks!

The water definitely is rising, thanks

Ah yes! John Cleese for the win! So classic. 🎉 New mission uploaded: Persuade S2U-A to ditch the silly balaclava and step into the light. 😅

Good video!

I was waiting for this one

Also recommend checking out Microhard radios if you haven't already. Great long range high bandwidth IP radios, multi channel MIMO, some with meshing, some with LTE capabilities. They make some that are very small and lightweight and good on battery usage, used them on 12ft wingspan VTOL drones. Similar capabilities to some of the Silvus embedded radios, but more affordable price point.

perfect, just what i was looking for

Love it!

Might need to make your own cam. 😉

Love the ATAK content! Now I'm kicking myself for throwing out my Android phones

Will there be more regarding ATAK? And / or the briefcase? Keep up the awesome work!

We have a group on the Greyman network as well!

Would like to incorporate this into the group of guys that I hunt with. We do pushes and this would come in handy to find where people are and to communicate better. We use radios but not everyone has one, but everyone has a cell phone.

The IBPF... sounds so spooklike

This is awesome

I cant be the only one... but the briefcase was in "From Russia With Love".

Let's go S2!!!

thanks again

Awesome information. Still seems like sorcery

I have not tried it but old cellphones can be used as wifi cameras. Most people have old ones laying around. New cheap ones can be bought at Walmart for low cost. So if you find one that works well and you find that you need extras, Walmart is close by. They are flat for storage.

The bond case was from the movie ‘From Russia with Love’, not Dr. No 😁

Isaac, have you seen the revamped beartooth? Looks like they have taken it a completely different direction and would be a really good team Manet radio that doesn’t require you to solder your own board and 3d print housings

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 sending love, good morning

Sounds like there could be a several day class just about ATAK

RTSP firmware on Wyze cam will facilitate LAN connection which might allow it to integrate directly into ATAK.

20:05 I see what you did there :) And it's true!, He lives! :)

Now, if only there were up to date "How To" videos! Concept is great if you can make it work!

I wish the full-featured ATAK were available on iOS so that it could be used in groups with different platforms. Most of my folks have iOS devices.

When you find out your alarm clock radio is listening, then your 2004 car radio, then your phone on airplane mode, you realize the best way is to have old tech that has an off switch.

You need to look at this in conjunction with beartooth radios

I want a training and field problem class. Figuring it out on your own before getting it to non-technical buddies is hard.

Super Noob. Trying to learn. If SHTF and me and my group is using ATAK how easily accesible is it for the OP to track us. Govt, insurgent, local enforcement etc or the app maker to give the information out just like some safe companies due for red flag laws.

For future bags add to the TAK server please a bridge into Meshtastic, that would give a real off grid setup. I am working on a similar solution, the idea is to have WLAN for the close surroundings, and LoRa Meshtastic for the ones that are more far away or people that are distributed in a building or underground.

The navigation plugin probably is running some version of the A* (A star) algorithm. Essentially, you break a map down into a grid, call certain squares passible (roads) and other squares impassable. You have a starting square and a goal square. Im going to simplify here, but you look at any adjacent square that is passable and give it a a score 'g' representing how far you had to travel to get there. Since this is the first move, you give it a 1 (next is 2, and after that 3, and so on). Then you give it an 'h' score, which is an educated guess as to how far your new square is from the target. You then get an 'f' score where f=g+h. Once you have the f score for every passible square next to your position, you pick the one with the minimum value as the next point in your path. Repeat untill you hit a dead end or reach your goal. If you hit a dead end, go back to a previous point and use the next smallest 'f' scoring square instead. It may add road speed and slowdown points (stop lights, signs, and stuff) as weights in the calculation, but that isn't strictly necessary. It would be interesting if it also took topology data as additional weight.

Its only as good as the antenna and network, particularly the db.........this is really important. A lot of low power/antenna combinations struggle in an urban environment. You have to build a net.

Isaac can you do a video on the Beartooth system?

This reminds me of the rubber bandits video called my dad's best friend

Starts around 3:40

You had to go and mention Banana Pudding. My next mission is to make you the best ever Banana pudding

Thumbs up x 10!

bravo

Amcrest and reolink both have some local ip cameras I believe. I see people use them a lot with home assistant. Might be a better choice than the wyze cams.

Hey Isaac, love everything you do. Have you considered playing around with mp3 players. Walkman actually stills makes products one if them being effectively an ipod touch. There are othere Android based mp3 players that are similar. Just putting it out there

Can you give us a list/link of all the stuff shown off in the video?

Awesome

Great info! How do I find local TAK groups in my area??

Im looking at bringing ATAK into some ops in my LE org. I ran it while i was an 02 in the Marines and can see the application for what i do now with the ATAK Civ version

Looking forward to more on mikrotek and portable wifi

Have you seen the "HAMPR: Human Attached Mesh Portable Radio"? Google doc explaining how to connect a phone, powerbank and Ubiquiti Rocket M5 together. It's a bit janky with the number of USB adaptors and a PoE injector. Would be nice to have a single box with power in, usb-c out to phone for networking to radio & power, and PoE socket for radio.

Are you going to be making content on more affordable meshtastic networks?

Awesome content. How do you host ATAK? Can you show how to setup a TAK server? It’s also pretty cool that it is possible to use a Lora plugin

James Bond drives through national monuments! GPS "Continue straight for 3.5 miles!" 😂

What kind of phone setup and Garmin watch are you using?

Is there a parts list for what's in the briefcase?

If you all could make a video specificly on VNS and how to make it work, I know I personally would greatly appreciate it. That thing has been a bear to deal with. To broaden the scope of the video, downloading offline map, DTED, etc data, would be very nice.