r/homeassistant: security cameras turned into a backyard bird counter on e-ink frames
A fully local project that reuses hardware people already own.
A user ran BirdNET-Go, a port of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's bird-call model, as a Home Assistant app on a Raspberry Pi 4, feeding it the audio from existing security cameras' RTSP streams so no audio leaves the house, then displayed each day's birds on e-ink frames styled as specimen sheets. The top reply pointed to an earlier open-source project the poster should credit; others shared their own versions.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
After exploring I turned my security cameras into a backyard bird counter with BirdNET-Go, and put the results on e-ink frames, the lab whose bird-call model it runs is Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
A Cornell University unit in Ithaca, New York, that studies and works to conserve birds through research, education and citizen science.
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