Easiest: put this phone on the same WiFi as your PC and tap the button. In the field, join your field router's WiFi (e.g. Declassified-Skies) first.
Or type the address your PC shows (a field router uses 192.168.8.x; a PC hotspot uses 10.42.0.1):
A recording lives on the node, never here. Viewed media is a bounded cache that empties itself as it fills, so scrolling can never fill your phone. Downloads stay until you clear them.
Off: once a capture has confirmed on the node, its bytes leave this device. On: a copy is kept here (in Downloads) too.
A field session groups everything you log while you're out. Start time is stamped when you begin.
Record from a camera plugged into this PC — hardware- encoded, with a USB gyro/GPS module's pointing track if one is attached. The clip files as a sighting.
An account syncs your sessions and sightings across your devices and lets you take part in community vetting. Everything works without one too.
This tool borrows some jargon. Here it is, translated — you don't need any of it to take part, but it helps to know what you're looking at.
This is off until you turn it on. If you turn it on, you lend part of a disk to hold other people's published session bundles and they hold yours, so the record survives without anyone running a server. Whatever exists in the fewest places is copied first — a bundle held once is one failed disk from gone.
Every bit counts, compounded. A $10 64 GB flash drive is nothing on its own — but lend it through your node and you are one of a thousand, and a thousand of them is 64 TB of the record kept alive, for free, by people who each did almost nothing. The smallest spare drive you own is a real contribution at that scale: you need no server, no rack, no bill — just the stick in a drawer.
Only published Declassified Skies bundles are ever stored or served. Never your database, your media library, or any other file on this machine.
Pick one of your drives and the slider spans it. Bundles you are already holding move with it, and nothing is ever deleted.
On a phone, only opt in if this device's sole purpose is the mesh — a spare old handset left plugged in, never the phone in your pocket. Donating a phone's own storage will fill it, and the constant writing wears a phone's flash out.
Anyone who can reach this address could then download them. Leave it off if this machine is exposed to the open internet.
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