Flightradar24 integration for Home Assistant

📡 Overview

The Flightradar24 integration brings real-time aviation tracking into Home Assistant.

Track flights above your location, monitor airports, follow specific aircraft worldwide, and trigger powerful automations based on live flight events.

✅ No Flightradar24 subscription required

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✨ Features

• 🌍 Track flights currently in your area
• ✈️ Follow aircraft anywhere in the world
• 🛬 Monitor airport arrivals and departures
• 🔔 Create flight-based notifications and automations
• 📊 View airport delay and cancellation statistics
• 🗺️ Add live flight maps to Home Assistant dashboards
• 📱 Track flights as Home Assistant device_tracker
• 🔥 Monitor the top 10 most tracked flights on Flightradar24

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It allows you: 1. Know how many flights in your area right now, or just have entered or exited it. And get list of flights with full information by every relevant flight for the sensor 2. Track a particular plane or planes no matter where it currently is, even if it is a scheduled flight 3. Monitor daily statistics (like on time/delayed/canceled flights) of the selected airport 4. Get top 10 most tracked flights on FlightRadar24 5. Create notifications (example - Get a notification when a flight enters or exits your area, Get a notification when a tracked scheduled flight takes off) 6. Create automations (example - Automatically track a flight by your needs) 7. Add flights table for your area to your Home Assistant dashboard by Lovelace Card) 8. Add departures/arrivals boards of the selected airport to your Home Assistant dashboard by Lovelace Airport Card) 9. Track your flight as Device Tracker 10. Get info for last flights which were in your area or get info about latest exited flight by creating Last Flights History Sensor

🚀 Installation

HACS (Recommended)

1. Install HACS
2. Open HACS
3. Search for Flightradar24
4. Click Download
5. Restart Home Assistant

One-click install

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Manual Installation

1. Locate the custom_components directory in your Home Assistant configuration directory. It may need to be created.
2. Copy the custom_components/flightradar24 directory into the custom_components directory.
3. Restart Home Assistant.

Configuration

Flightradar24 is configured via the GUI. See the HA docs for more details.

The default data is preset already

1. Go to the Settings->Devices & services.
2. Click on + ADD INTEGRATION, search for Flightradar24.
3. You may change the default values for Radius, Latitude and Longitude
4. Click SUBMIT

Edit Configuration

You may edit configuration data like: 1. Latitude and longitude of your point 2. Radius of your zone 3. Scan interval for updates in seconds 4. The minimum and maximum altitudes in foots between which the aircraft will be tracked 5. Enable/Disable top 10 most tracked flights on FlightRadar24 6. Enable/Disable device_tracker for flights 7. Optional: Username and password if you have FlightRadar24 subscription 8. Enable/Disable Enable auto-cleanup of landed tracked flights. That automatically removes flights from the "Additional tracked" list once they arrive at the gate 10. Map Tracker Naming Style. - Callsign Only (e.g., KLM1412) - Default - Callsign + Route (e.g., KLM1412 (CDG - AMS)) - Registration + Route (e.g., PH-BXE (CDG - AMS))

To do that:

1. Go to the Settings->Devices & services.
2. Search for Flightradar24, and click on it.
3. Click on CONFIGURE

4. Edit the options you need and click SUBMIT

5. Restart Home Assistant

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⚙️ Configuration

The integration is fully configured through the Home Assistant UI.

Initial Setup

1. Open:

Settings → Devices & Services

1. Click:

+ ADD INTEGRATION

1. Search for:

Flightradar24

1. Configure:
2. Latitude
3. Longitude

4. Radius

5. Click SUBMIT

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Configuration Options

You can configure:

Option	Description
Radius	Flight detection radius
Coordinates	Monitoring location
Scan interval	Update frequency
Altitude filters	Minimum & maximum altitude
Most tracked flights	Enable/disable top 10 tracking
Device tracker	Enable aircraft tracking entity
FR24 credentials	Optional premium login
Auto cleanup	Remove landed tracked flights
Naming style	Customize map tracker names

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🧩 Components

Events

Event	Description
flightradar24_entry	Flight entered your area
flightradar24_exit	Flight exited your area
flightradar24_area_landed	Aircraft landed nearby
flightradar24_area_took_off	Aircraft took off nearby
flightradar24_tracked_took_off	Tracked aircraft departed
flightradar24_tracked_landed	Tracked aircraft landed
flightradar24_tracked_arrived_gate	Flight arrived at gate
flightradar24_tracked_left_gate	Flight left gate

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Sensors

Area tracking	Description
Current in area	Flight entered your area
Entered area	Flights that just have exited your area
Exited area	Flights that just have entered your area
Additional tracked	Your additional tracked outside your area
Most tracked	Most tracked flights on FlightRadar24. You may disable it via configuration

Airport tracking	Description
Airport arrivals	List of current arrival flights for the selected airport
Airport departures	List of current departure flights for the selected airport
Airport arrivals on time	Amount of arrivals on time for the selected airport today
Airport arrivals delayed	Amount of delayed arrivals for the selected airport today
Airport arrivals delay average	Disruption arrivals index for the selected airport today
Airport arrivals delay index	Amount of canceled arrivals for the selected airport today
Airport arrivals canceled	Amount of canceled arrivals for the selected airport today
Airport departures on time	Amount of departures on time for the selected airport today
Airport departures delayed	Amount of delayed departures for the selected airport today
Airport departures delay average	Average departures delay for the selected airport today
Airport departures delay index	Disruption departures index for the selected airport today
Airport departures canceled	Amount of canceled departures for the selected airport today

Other

Other tracking	Description
Most tracked flights	The most tracked flights

⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE ON ENTITY IDs & TRANSLATIONS ⚠️
Home Assistant automatically generates the underlying entity_id for your sensors based on your system's default language at the time of installation. For example, sensor.flightradar24_current_in_area might automatically become sensor.flightradar24_bereich_betreten on a German system.

Before copying and pasting any YAML or Lovelace code from this README, please verify your exact entity IDs by navigating to Settings -> Devices & Services -> Entities and update the code examples to match your localized IDs!

Home Assistant may translate entity IDs based on your system language.

Example:

sensor.flightradar24_current_in_area

might become:

sensor.flightradar24_bereich_betreten

Always verify your entity IDs here:

Settings → Devices & Services → Entities

before copying YAML examples.

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Device Tracker

You may be interested to add a live flight as device_tracker with the flight information to a person in HA. To use it - you need to activate this feature in Edit Configuration. When it is enabled - this integration creates device_tracker with static name device_tracker.flightradar24 and this device_tracker updates when there is a live flight in the additional tracked list. It works ONLY with one live flight from the additional tracked list at a time!

Configuration

• Add to track - Pass flight number or call sign or aircraft registration number to track flight outside your area. It adds flight to Additional tracked sensor
• Remove from track - Pass flight number or call sign or aircraft registration number to remove a flight from Additional tracked sensor
• Airport track - Pass IATA or ICAO airport code to start receiving data in Airport sensors. To stop receiving airport data just pass an empty string
• API data fetching - you may disable FlightRadar API calls when not needed to prevent unnecessary API calls and save bandwidth and server load.
• Clear Additional tracked - Clear all flights in Additional tracked sensor

Sensors (Current in area, Entered area, Exited area, Additional tracked) shows how many flights in the given area, additional tracked, just have entered or exited it. All these sensors have attribute flights with list of flight object contained a full information by every relevant flight for the sensor

Sensor Most tracked has attribute flights with list of most tracked object

Sensors Airport arrivals and Airport departures have attribute flights with list of the next 50 [airport flights]