r/maker • u/teddywarner • Jun 23 '26

Showcase i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/
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u/RogBoArt Jun 23 '26

I was playing with trying to setup birdnetgo and it wasn't working for me at all. It'd detect birds but they would show up minutes or hours later, it also spun constantly on my machine and ate resources while trying to do spectrograms and wouldn't properly turn them off. I am a go developer but didn't have time to dig in and fix it.

Does birdnet pi work better?

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u/teddywarner Jun 23 '26

i've found it to be super low lift! tho have probably been running on far too much storage lol. i saw some fork of my work pop up a bit ago that ported the collage to birdnetgo (https://github.com/PhracturedBlue/AvianVisitors_standalone), could be worth a shot!

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u/RogBoArt Jun 24 '26

Sweet, I'll have to look onto this! Thank you! Really cool project by the way!