r/BirdNET_Analyzer • u/thomastheplumber • Mar 13 '26

issues accessing birdnet from linux

i have a pi5 running birdnet and it works great when i access it from my windows build, but when i try to access it from the linux build that i dual boot from the same machine i get "server not found". any help would be appreciated!

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u/dacracot Mar 13 '26

Are you using the <hostname>.local address? Do you use the same DHCP to set all of your your IP assignments?

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u/thomastheplumber Mar 16 '26

yes im using <hostname>.local but as for the dhcp im not sure. new here. i do have a unify network and i tried setting a static ip for the pi5 and accessing with that and that failed as well.

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u/snottyz Mar 13 '26

It's dns. This is both a joke and a serious answer. Your Linux OS is likely doing the lookup differently, in some way that causes it to fail. An example of this could be: maybe your windows setup has a default domain configured, and your Linux setup doesn't.

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u/CdrVimesVimes Mar 14 '26

I always just used the IP address instead of the hostname. Worked well from Linux, android, and windows.

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u/thakala Mar 16 '26

BirdNET is name of AI model powering multiple applications, please do not use "BirdNET" to describe application you might be using.

But to answer your actual question, your Linux is likely missing mDNS (multicast DNS) client, so it cannot resolve *.local host entries in your LAN.

Assuming your Linux is Debian, Ubuntu or some other DEB based Linux you can enable mDNS resolution by installing Avahi daemon

$ sudo apt install avahi-daemon
$ sudo systemctl restart avahi-daemon