Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021) • Hacker News Board

Post by IvyMike » Fri, Dec 15, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

trailbits wrote: post #18

IvyMike wrote: post #17

I'll take this change to hype up BirdNET-Pi, a citizen science project where participants run a bird listening station 24/7. The results can be sent to birdweather.com. I'm always kind of shocked that I'm one of only six such stations in the Los Angeles area, and I'd love to see more people sign up.

Would love to setup a station but not sure how I would protect the Pi from the elements if installed outside. Did you somehow weatherize your Pi or do you use a remote microphone over a long wire or some kind of wireless mic solution?

I mean to write a blog entry about this, but clearly that isn't happening soon, so here's the quick summary. Yes, I weatherized my pi by putting it in a weatherproof case. I bough a fancy case (no longer in production, but kind of like this: https://corpshadow.biz/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-ip65-weathe... ) but honestly if I were to do it again, I'd buy a big cheap waterproof box for electrical connections like this: https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Electrical-Weatherproof-Prote... .

I put the mic under an eave so it doesn't get wet. I bought a nice mic, but it's definitely overkill. Next time, I'll buy a half-dozen cheap mics from ali express and treat them as semi-disposable.

Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)

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