I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
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Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#2Super cool, could be plugged into https://www.earthcam.com/ for global bird tracking.
(i have a few https://www.birdweather.com/ devices strewn across North America and Europe because I am time poor and preferred a turnkey solution for those gifted to, but love the DIY efforts! no affiliation!)
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#3> No waiting. No manual recording.
> No cloud services. No API calls.
> No subscription fees. No terms of service changes. No company shutting down the service in two years.
Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
#4I'm thinking of making one of these for my wife as a holiday present: https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/
I like the idea of doing something with the timestamp of the recording, or highlighting new (or recently unheard) visitors.
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#5Love this project, I did something similar. The next step is building a custom frontend for it that’s exactly how your wife wants!
https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
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#6Really nice project! Expected a visual ID system, surprised it was using audio. "Flock" would be a great name for the project...oh well!
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#7I get jealous of people that have the luxury of time to do things like this
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#8Nice! I've tried to build something similar with Unifi cameras (https://github.com/dewey/birdhomie) and it worked pretty well, the species detection wasn't that accurate but I'll continue on that project in the winter.
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#9Love this project, I did something similar. The next step is building a custom frontend for it that’s exactly how your wife wants! https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
Has your observation record reached a steady state, or are you regularly seeing unusual species?
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#10I did exactly this with BirdNet-Go and my Unifi doorbell cam. Unifi exposes an RTSP feed for each camera so it was easy for the tool to just "listen" to the doorbell and start classifying.
I have a spare e-ink display and my next weekend project to follow onto this is to wire it up so it shows some faux "woodcut" images of birds detected, or something like that.