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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

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nautilus12 wrote: post #7

I get jealous of people that have the luxury of time to do things like this

I just used AI(antigravity with gemini 3.6 flash, but i'm sure many others would work) to implement this and integrate it with my security cameras after reading the blog post 26 minutes ago. I suspect the author did the same thing. I also had it steal the idea from the AvianVisitors link in this thread and it displays a generated collage of the recently detected birds.

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ben1040 wrote: post #10

I 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.

just use trmnl it will make it super easy

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Post by dhosek »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #23
LIMEVINCE wrote: post #13

In the non-fucked up timeline where Hilary won in 2016, Flock cameras is a nationwide network of automatic bird identification cameras to track bird population and migration.

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Come on man, let us have a nice little alternate universe without peeing in our Cheerios.

Re: I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

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Post by dhosek »

ck2 wrote: post #11

ha, now imagine some hacker changing all the Flock firmware nationwide to do bird identification too would have been a great Mr. Robot episode

Sorry, no luck tracking down your ex-girlfriend, but we do have a line on an ivory-billed woodpecker.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Aboutplants wrote: post #18
toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Super 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!)

How do you like the bird weather device? I’m interested in a more turnkey solution as well

I'm fairly satisfied with it and would recommend it to others who aren't interested in building their own solution. I like supporting the folks who are building it, although I'm unsure what the future looks like for the product. Could enshittify, could turn into Home Assistant Foundation [1] (which I also financially support). Time will tell. That's why I think its important to have open alternatives, similar to how one of the https://www.adsbexchange.com/ operators went rouge [2], sold to private equity, and others have filled the gap with new ADS-B network solutions.

[1] https://www.openhomefoundation.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582907 (citations)

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Post by bix6 »

bradly wrote: post #19
arm32 wrote: post #5

Love 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/

Here is mine: https://birdymusic.com/ I'm also working on a little project that is a walnut frame with a waveshare eink display and esp32 that polls for latest detection and display the picture.

Wow kingfisher, lucky!
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