@sebastianp , sorry for the delay. There a lots of questions, let me start with what I can answer right away and will go from there.
Hires Video
Resolution:
Starling 2 Max comes with dual IMX412 cameras (front, down-facing). IMX412 maximum resolution is 4056x3040, which is larger than 4K. 8K is not supported on Starling Max. In general, we do have support for one 8K camera (OV64B), which has maximum resolution of 9248x6944 and that resolution is supported only at 10FPS. The only way to get that camera right now is part of a Flir Hadron combo (Boson + Color camera), which is probably not what you are looking for. So the best bet for Starling 2 Max is to use the provided IMX412 camera.
you can see some details regarding operating modes of IMX412 camera here : https://docs.modalai.com/camera-video/low-latency-video-streaming/#imx412-operating-modes
Data Pipeline:
our camera server application (voxl-camera-server) can publish processed YUV images via shared ION buffers (zero copy) and the user application can receive those buffers for processing without any cpu overhead for doing inter process communication to send the image data.
you can also publish raw Bayer data (the exact data that comes from the camera) if that's what you mean by "raw"
Optics:
no optical zoom is supported on any of our cameras, only digital
Onboard AI Compute and Performance
I will need to check with colleagues and follow up.
Flight Range, Autonomy & Control
Starling 2 Max used PX4 as flight controller, so all the standard flight modes are supported
Answers to additional questions
Camera and Zoom integration: yes, raw and yuv frames can be shared with customer's C/C++ applications via shared buffers (or regular buffers via named pipes, which will have a lot of overhead for duplicating the data). No optical zoom is supported. Examples are available upon request
We provide voxl-cross docker image which can be used to build the projects for VOXL2. Majority of ModalAI packages that run on VOXL2 are built using this cross-complier environment and can serve as examples how to build your own applications (you can find most packages here : https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk)
you can mount more hardware on Starling 2 Max, see the following thread regarding flight time : https://forum.modalai.com/topic/3732/starling-2-max-payload-capacity-and-flight-time-impact
Frequency selection
when you configure your starling 2 max (https://www.modalai.com/products/starling-2-max) , you can select several options and the SKU will change accordingly. The page also has explanation for the different SKU options, so it sounds like you will need:
MRB-D0012-4-V4-C28-M11-T9-K2
C28 : dual tracking and dual hi-res cameras
M11-T9 : Microhard and Microhard pMDDL2450 and Ghost Atto (2.4Ghz)
it seems that this would be a custom SKU that you would need to request a quote for : https://www.modalai.com/pages/contact-us
Ground Controller:
If the drone ships with an RC transmitter, it should be already bound to the receiver.
the controller and receive depends on the selection, see above regarding SKU and the shop page for more description
note that the RC controller has no ability to display video, so there is no out-of-the-box ability to stream video without additional setup, such as external computer, display / goggles, etc.
I hope that answered a lot of your questions, please let us know additional questions or need clarification regarding anything else.
Alex
