Hi everyone! 
I’m excited to share Dectyr RX-5 for Home Assistant, an integration my team and I built for surveillance of drones.
What it does
It connects Home Assistant to Dectyr drone detector hardware via MQTT and exposes:
- All drones detected by your scanners as HA devices, with full telemetry: position, altitude, speed, heading, RSSI, manufacturer, model, operator info, EU classification, etc.
- All scanners as HA devices with health monitoring: temperatures, UPS battery, GNSS status, cellular connectivity, firmware management.
- Two custom Lovelace cards:
dectyr-surveillance-card: rich list of detected drones with stats and scanner statusdectyr-map-card: live Leaflet map with drone markers oriented by heading, scanner radar icons, operator silhouettes, home zone, and 30-minute trail polylines
Demo
Hardware support
The integration has been validated with real Dectyr scanners detecting:
- DJI, Autel Robotics, Parrot, Skydio drones…
Anything that broadcasts on the standard Remote ID protocols (ASTM F3411, EN 4709-002:2023, …) is detected by your Dectyr scanner should work.
What you can build with it
- Real-time drone surveillance dashboards
- Notifications when drones enter restricted zones (using Home Assistant zones)
- Daily/monthly detection statistics with the History Stats integration
- Webhook forwarding to external systems for compliance or archival
- Automated lights/cameras when drones approach a perimeter
- Scanner monitoring alerts (battery, temperatures, firmware)
The repo includes 3 blueprints + a docs folder with 6 manual automation examples to get you started.
Installation
Via HACS as Custom Repository for now (HACS Default submission is in review):
- HACS → Integrations → ⋮ → Custom repositories
- Repository:
https://github.com/DECTYR/ha-integration - Category:
Integration - Add → Install
- Restart HA → Add the Dectyr RX-5 integration
Manual: copy custom_components/dectyr_rx5/ to your config/custom_components/ folder and restart HA.
Documentation
- README — Quick start
- Cards reference — Lovelace cards options
- Entities reference — All 77 entities documented
- Automations — Blueprints and recipes
- MQTT reference — Topic structure and payloads
Roadmap
- v1.1.0: Live Leaflet map with drone/scanner/operator markers + trails
- v1.1.1: Comprehensive documentation
- v1.1.2: Repository moved to dectyr GitHub organization
- HACS Default submission (in progress)
- Sync click drone-card → highlight on map
- Manual configuration of scanner positions (for scanners without GNSS)
- Map controls (recenter, toggle trails)
About Dectyr
Dectyr is the company I run, focused on drone detection hardware. Our RX-5 scanner detects Remote ID broadcasts in your area. This integration is the official Home Assistant connector for our hardware, open-sourced for the community.
I’d love to hear your feedback! What features would be most useful for your use case? Any issues or questions, please open them on the GitHub repo.