diff --git a/homeassistant/components/tplink/device_tracker.py b/homeassistant/components/tplink/device_tracker.py
index 7b665006a44..b139aed4eea 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/tplink/device_tracker.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/tplink/device_tracker.py
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ def get_scanner(hass, config):
     should be gradually migrated in the pypi package
 
     """
+    _LOGGER.warning("TP-Link device tracker is unmaintained and will be "
+                    "removed in the future releases if no maintainer is "
+                    "found. If you have interest in this integration, "
+                    "feel free to create a pull request to move this code "
+                    "to a new 'tplink_router' integration and refactoring "
+                    "the device-specific parts to the tplink library")
     for cls in [
             TplinkDeviceScanner, Tplink5DeviceScanner, Tplink4DeviceScanner,
             Tplink3DeviceScanner, Tplink2DeviceScanner, Tplink1DeviceScanner