Speedify’s Audio Tracking Lets You Align a Starlink Dish Without Watching the Screen
Aligning a dish usually means one hand on the hardware and both eyes on a phone you can’t quite see. Speedify solves that in the Starlink Control Center with audio tracking: as you rotate the dish toward its target, Speedify plays beeps that speed up as the alignment error shrinks.
This article explains how audio tracking works, when it helps most, and how it fits into aiming a multi-dish setup.
How Speedify’s Starlink Alignment with Audio Tracking Works
Select any dish in the Dish Orientation card to open the Alignment Wizard for that dish. From there:
- Speedify calculates the target heading for the selected dish.
- As you physically rotate the dish, Speedify measures the gap between its current heading and the target.
- The beeps get faster as that gap closes, and reach a steady fast tone at the target.
You keep your hands on the dish and your eyes on the mount instead of on a screen you can’t reach.
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When Speedify’s Starlink Audio Tracking Earns Its Keep
Audio tracking matters most exactly where dishes tend to go: on a roof, on a mast, on a vessel’s hardtop, or anywhere the screen is out of sight while your hands are on the hardware. It also speeds up the work of getting two dishes onto different sky, since you can aim each one to its Speedify-calculated heading without climbing back down to check. Starlink’s guidance on giving each antenna a clear, unobstructed view sets the target; audio tracking helps you hit it.
How Proper Starlink Dish Alignment Improves Speedify’s Bonding
Good alignment isn’t the goal on its own. The point is two dishes on different sky, each with a low obstruction percentage, feeding Speedify’s channel bonding technology. Speedify combines the aligned dishes into one connection, distributes traffic across them at the packet level, and fails over instantly if one is blocked. The cleaner each dish’s aim, the more capacity Speedify has to work with.
Who Benefits from Speedify’s Starlink Audio Tracking
- Rooftop and mast installers. No more squinting at a phone propped on a ladder.
- Maritime crews. Aligning a dish on a moving deck is far easier by ear than by eye.
- Anyone aiming two dishes apart. Audio tracking makes the second dish quick to set without constant screen checks.
Speedify and Starlink: Align Fast, Then Bond
Audio tracking gets each Starlink dish onto its target heading with your eyes on the hardware. Speedify’s channel bonding technology takes the well-aimed dishes and combines them into one faster, more resilient connection. For the full set of alignment tools, see how to use Speedify’s Starlink Control Center.
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