I built a desktop flight-radar ornament!
Using an ESP32-S3 5" touch panel and ESPHome, it shows live aircraft over your location on an ATC-style radar scope
โ complete with a rotating sweep and a glow as the beam passes each plane.
It does more than you'd expect:
Tap any aircraft for its origin/destination, altitude, speed & heading
Optional weather-radar (rain echo) overlay
Optional map outline overlay
Home Assistant integration โ even works as an alarm clock that rings through your Wi-Fi speaker, with per-weekday scheduling
Everything configurable right on the touchscreen โ no coding needed
Fully open-source (non-commercial). Code, docs and a demo video here ![]()
GitHub - delphicchen/esp32_flight_radar: esp32 desktop device to show flight / weather / clock integrated with Home assistant ยท GitHub
Just grab an off-the-shelf dev board, flash it, and you're good to go
Happy to answer questions!