[HN Gopher] Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered f...
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Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
Author : zdw
Score : 53 points
Date : 2025-10-02 14:49 UTC (3 days ago)
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| jna_sh wrote:
| This post references Logan Williams' BirdNET experiments, he did
| a really fantastic talk on that project at WHY2025 (the Dutch
| hacker camp) recently: https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-240-is-ai-
| for-the-birds-the-b...
| 3abiton wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, thoroughly enjoyed it!
| ben1040 wrote:
| I have a UniFi doorbell that I chose because it's self hosted and
| the video stays in my home. It also easily lets you get an RTSP
| stream of the camera feed.
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| Earlier this spring we put a bird feeder outside the front door
| and it dawned on me I could be piping the doorbell cam into
| BirdNET to classify the bird calls. With an RTSP stream there's
| no need to mount a microphone anywhere, that comes for free from
| the doorbell.
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| My wife is the bird person in the house more so than I am, but it
| was still really fun to set up and watch the identifications come
| across.
| tetris11 wrote:
| RTSP listening instructions for anyone curious:
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| https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/wiki/Using-an-inte...
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| I need to try this with my Reolink
| hentrep wrote:
| Long time BirdNET fan, but I used the Merlin app for the first
| time yesterday and found it much more useful [0] It'll display
| multiple bird species at the same time, and highlight which song
| belongs to which species in real-time. Recommend giving it a shot
| if you haven't!
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| [0] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
| Lorean1 wrote:
| Just to clarify - the article describes BirdNET-Pi, not the
| mobile app Birdnet. In the mobile app we have to record and
| manually select a fragment to analyze, here it's a continuous
| monitoring where detections are visible in real time and can be
| replayed.
| gerdesj wrote:
| OP explains all that admirably in the section entitled:
| "Terminology: BirdNET vs BirdNET-Pi"
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| I use both. I have a BNPi at home in our summerhouse with a
| mic on the outside. We live next to a park and the bird song
| can be deafening in summer!
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| I have the Birdnet app on my mobile and its ideal when out
| walking to do a quick survey or identify a song I don't
| recognise.
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| Whilst I'm commenting here, I'll drop a shout out for the
| "Flora Incognita" app for plant identification.
| bix6 wrote:
| That bird viz is awesome
| paffdragon wrote:
| This is so cool. I'm using BirdNET on Android for a long time and
| that is awesome, but running continuous monitoring on a Pi is
| really interesting. I saw there was also a Home Assistant
| integration for it.
| mdswanson wrote:
| Another BirdNET option if you don't want to build your own:
| https://www.birdweather.com/
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