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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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I don't know how this possibly worked for the northern mockingbird. One full moon I stood and listened to one call continuously for an hour and I couldn't remember hearing the same call twice. Every bird I'd ever heard in person and more mimicked...several car alarms..sirens... Do they even have their own distinctive call?

Merlin identifies them for me

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

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I don't know how this possibly worked for the northern mockingbird. One full moon I stood and listened to one call continuously for an hour and I couldn't remember hearing the same call twice. Every bird I'd ever heard in person and more mimicked...several car alarms..sirens... Do they even have their own distinctive call?

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

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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

I like my money to not go towards transphobes

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't love it either, but it's better than the alternative of Peace President(tm) -- famous for strokes of genius such as "can't we just shoot [the protestors] in the legs"; asking the military to "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs; and the masterful decision to deny Iran nuclear weapons by withdrawing from the JCPOA and joining Israel in waging an illegitimate war. Edit: Wow that's insane that yo…

It sounds like a "both sides" argument, which should indeed be flagged early and often. It's not, though. I'd still vote for her over the alternative the Republicans chose to offer to us (and did so). It was the only responsible thing to do.

Yea tbh the only thing "wrong" about Hilary to me is that she rubs me the wrong way -- like I have a feeling she's just married to Bill so they can be the ultimate political power couple. But realistically that's such a terrible reason to dislike her, and is such a non-factor compared to the miles long laundry list of god-emperor Cheetolini's substantive flaws.

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

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post #97

I tried that with my Aqara camera. The mic there has no windshield, though; wind noise was terrible. Also I couldn’t get Aqara support to enable higher sampling rates in the firmware than 16kHz; BirdNET expects 48kHz audio samples. Ended up installing a better microphone attached to a RPi3A+ and using a RaspberyPi 4 which I already owned for hosting BirdNET-Go https://maciejb.me/posts/birdnet-go-setup/ Much better so…

I built an esp32 with 48khz mic soldered on, feeding rtsp stream to server in living room. Works amazing. Need to build more mics.

How do you transmit the audio once captured?
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