OpenSky Network

The opensky sensor allows one to track overhead flights in a given region. It uses crowd-sourced data from the OpenSky Network public API. It will also fire Home Assistant events when flights enter and exit the defined region.

Configuration

To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml.

sensor:
  - platform: opensky
    radius: 10

Configuration options for the OpenSky Network sensor:

• radius (Required): Radius of region to monitor, in kilometers
• latitude (Optional): Region latitude (defaults to home zone latitude)
• longitude (Optional): Region longitude (defaults to home zone longitude)
• name (Optional): Sensor name (defaults to opensky)

Events

• opensky_entry: Fired when a flight enters the region
• opensky_exit: Fired when a flight exits the region

Both events have two attributes:

• sensor: Name of opensky sensor that fired the event
• callsign: Callsign of the flight