Red Alert Monitoring Stack: A Self-Hosted Microservices System For Rocket Alert Awareness

I built a self-hosted microservices stack for monitoring Israel's Home Front Command (Pikud HaOref) rocket alerts. It provides real-time map visualization, AI-generated intelligence reports, push notifications, and home automation integration — all running as Docker containers on your local network.

Architecture

Each component is a standalone service communicating over HTTP and MQTT, sharing a single data source:

• Oref Alert Proxy — Lightweight FastAPI relay that polls Pikud HaOref every 3 seconds. Single source of truth for the entire stack.

  danielrosehill/Oref-Alert-Proxy ★ 0

  Local relay proxy for Israel Homefront Command (Pikud HaOref) alert data

  PythonUpdated Mar 2026

• Geodash — Real-time multi-map dashboard with 1,450 polygon overlays, InfluxDB time-series storage, historical playback, and a TV-optimized view.

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-Geodash ★ 0

  Real-time dashboard for Israel's Pikud HaOref rocket/situation alerts with multi-map Leaflet views and polygon overlays

  JavaScriptUpdated Apr 2026
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• OSINT Notifier — Unified intelligence and notification module. Monitors Telegram channels (EN/HE) for missile launches, triggers on Oref volumetric thresholds, generates Groq-powered intel reports and dual-model OpenRouter sitreps (Gemini + Grok), all delivered via Pushover with RSS news context.

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-OSINT-Notifier ★ 0

  Unified notification and OSINT intelligence module for Israel Red Alert monitoring — Telegram channel monitors, Oref volumetric alerts, Groq-powered intel reports, Pushover delivery

  PythonUpdated Mar 2026
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• Actuator — Home Assistant bridge: sets input_select state via REST API. HA automations handle lights, sirens, and TTS announcements.

• RSS Cache — Polls news feeds on schedule, serves cached articles for dashboard context.

• MCP Server — Streamable HTTP MCP server exposing alert tools for AI agents: current alerts, area alerts, alert history, news, stack health checks, and sample payload storage.

• InfluxDB + Mosquitto — Time-series database for alert history and MQTT broker for device communication.

Actuation pathways

Multiple independent pathways for physical alerting:

• Home Assistant via Actuator — REST API state changes triggering HA automations

• Home Assistant via oref_alert — use the HACS integration for HA alerting

• Snapcast TTS — direct PCM audio to whole-house speaker groups

• Direct MQTT — Zigbee2MQTT lights, ESP32 controllers, Node-RED

• Custom consumers — poll the proxy's HTTP API from anything

Alert flow example

When your local area is targeted by a ballistic missile:

1. OSINT Notifier detects the launch via Telegram channel monitors

2. High-priority Pushover alert fires (bypasses quiet hours)

3. Groq intel report follows within ~5 seconds

4. Dual-model sitrep (Gemini + Grok) follows within ~15–30 seconds with live news context

5. Actuator sets HA state to active — lights flash red, sirens sound, TTS announces "Seek shelter"

6. Geodash shows your area flashing red with siren audio

7. On all-clear: lights go green, sirens silence, TTS announces "All clear"

Prerequisites

• Docker and Docker Compose v2+

• Israeli IP address (the Oref API is geo-restricted)

• Optional: Home Assistant, Pushover account, OpenRouter/Groq API keys

All services build from source in the monorepo — no external Docker Hub images required.

View the project on GitHub