> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.altnautica.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ground station node panel > Manage a Ground Agent node from Mission Control: status, radio, network, Mesh & RX, ELRS link, display, buttons, peripherals and logs. A node running the Ground Agent (`ground_station` profile) gets its own detail panel in Mission Control. Select the ground station in the Fleet sidebar to open it. Ground station Overview tab with Agent Status, link, paired drone, uplink, mesh and video cards ## Tabs | Group | Tab | Shown | | - | - | - | | Status | **Overview** | Always | | | **Cockpit** | Always | | | **Carried drones** | Always | | Link | **Radio** | Not in the `receiver` role, which does not transmit | | | **Network** | Always | | | **Mesh & RX** | Always. It holds the role picker. | | | **RC / ELRS Link** | Only when an ExpressLRS CRSF link is present | | Device | **Display** | Always | | | **Buttons** | Always | | | **Peripherals** | Always | | No group | **Logs** | Always | | No group | **Agent** | Always | The top bar also shows the ground station's role (**Direct**, **Relay**, **Receiver** or **Unset**). ### Overview Status at a glance: the Agent Status card (CPU, memory, disk, temperature and control-plane round-trip time), link health, the paired drone, the uplink, the mesh summary, the video card, resource gauges, the service table and a log viewer. ### Cockpit Hands over to the drone this ground station carries: **This ground station carries {name}** with a **Fly {name}** button. With no drone linked, it points to **Carried drones**. See [Cockpit and Skills](/mission-control/cockpit). ### Carried drones The aircraft this ground station relays, when each was last heard, and what authority this browser holds over it. "Last heard" is a decode on the ground station, not a heartbeat from the drone's own uplink. See [Transitive enrollment](/ground-agent/transitive-enrollment). ### Radio The WFB-ng video radio: link state, channel and TX power, the video link, and **Phone receivers** for phones receiving the air link directly. See [WFB-ng](/drone-agent/wfb-ng). ### Network Every uplink path: Wi-Fi access point, Wi-Fi client, Ethernet and 4G modem, plus uplink priority, adapter stability and Wi-Fi power save. The active uplink decides which network the agent uses for the cloud relay. **Pair with drone** starts air-link pairing. See [Uplink matrix](/ground-agent/uplink-matrix). ### Mesh & RX Ground station Mesh and RX tab with the Deployment role picker, mesh health and the receiver pairing window The mesh between ground stations and the distributed receive it carries. **Direct** works alone, **Relay** forwards, **Receiver** combines. * **Deployment role**: pick `direct`, `relay` or `receiver` and click **Apply**. The role is written to the node over the LAN. On a direct node, the tab says so and the rest stays empty. * **Mesh health**, **neighbours** and **gateways**, on relay and receiver nodes. * **Relay status** on a relay. * **Distributed reception** on a receiver: the pairing window (**Open pairing window**, **Close window**, the seconds remaining), the **Relay join code** to enter on a relay, **Pending requests** with **Approve**, combined-stream statistics and **Connected relays**. See [Build a mesh](/ground-agent/mesh-setup). ### RC / ELRS Link The ExpressLRS control lane this node transmits: RSSI, SNR, uplink and downlink LQ, band, packet rate, TX power, frame counts, control mode, channel source, pilot in command and relay role. See [ELRS CRSF control lane](/ground-agent/elrs-crsf-control-lane). ### Display The SPI LCD on the ground station: **Local Display** (auto-detect or force HDMI, LCD or none), a **Live preview** of the LCD, **HDMI Cockpit** with its kiosk URL, **Remote control**, theme, camera switch and recording monitor. **Calibrate touch** runs the nine-point touch calibration on the device; tap each crosshair it shows. See [Front panel](/ground-agent/display). ### Buttons Ground station Buttons tab with the OLED contrast slider, the B1 to B4 button map and the OLED screen list The front panel and Bluetooth accessories (page title **Physical UI**): * The local display card and LCD preview, shown only when the agent has an SPI LCD panel bound. * **OLED Display**: the **OLED contrast** slider (0 to 255). Changes are sent to the node and applied to the OLED. * **Buttons**: what B1 to B4 do on a short and a long press. Read-only in Mission Control; remap long presses through the agent API described on [Front panel](/ground-agent/display). * **Screens**: the OLED screen order. Read-only. * **Bluetooth**: **Pair new device** to scan and pair a gamepad or accessory, and **Forget** for each paired device. ### Peripherals Extension-managed peripherals the agent declares: cameras, sensors and custom hardware, with a rescan button. ### Logs and Agent **Logs** shows the node's logs (a ground station has no flights). **Agent** is the configuration sidebar described on [Node configuration](/mission-control/node-configuration). ## Factory reset Mission Control does not factory-reset a ground station. The reset runs on the box itself. The procedure is on [Set up a ground station](/ground-agent/setup#re-run-setup-and-reset), and what it wipes is listed on [Hardening](/operations/hardening). ## Data flow The panel talks to the Ground Agent over: | Channel | Path | | - | - | | REST API | `http://:8080/api/v1/ground-station/*` | | Uplink events | `ws://:8080/api/v1/ground-station/ws/uplink` | | Mesh events | `ws://:8080/api/v1/ground-station/ws/mesh` | | Button events | `ws://:8080/api/v1/ground-station/ws/buttons` | | PIC events | `ws://:8080/api/v1/ground-station/pic/events` | On the ground station's own access point the node is `192.168.4.1`, and over USB tether `192.168.7.1`. A Mission Control page served over HTTPS (including the hosted version) cannot open these plain `http://` and `ws://` endpoints. Use Mission Control from source over plain HTTP, the desktop app, or the ground station's own dashboard at `http://192.168.4.1:8080/`. Polling pauses while the browser tab is hidden. When a node goes offline the panel keeps its last-known state and refreshes on reconnect. None of the local controls need the internet. ## Next steps Install, pick a role and pair. Relays, receivers and mesh pairing. OLED, buttons and the touch display. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.