mryan1/birdnetapp

BirdNET App for raspberry Pi that saves bird sightings to Influx, alerts over Telegram

birdnetapp

BirdNET App for raspberry Pi that saves bird sightings to Influx, alerts over Telegram

Assumptions

• User has access to an InfluxDB instance
• User has telegram bot token and chat id

Installation

• clone BirdNet-Analyzer repository https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzer.git to /home/pi
• follow BirdNet-Analyzer README instructions for Ubuntu/Linux.
• clone this repository to /home/pi
• in birdnetapp folder of this repository, create a secrets.py with the following contents:

TELEGRAM_TOKEN = 'blah'
TELEGRAM_CHATID = '-XXXXX'

INFLUX_URL = "http://host:PORT"
INFLUX_TOKEN= "XXXXXX"

• setup /tmp as ramdisk:

sudo cp /usr/share/systemd/tmp.mount /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount
sudo systemctl enable tmp.mount
sudo systemctl start tmp.mount

• disable rsyslog filliup up the SD card: sudo apt remove rsyslog
• Move journal to ram edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf:

Storage=volatile
RuntimeMaxUse=64M

• sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald
• Install dependencies via pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• sudo apt install sox ffmpeg
• run the server: cd /home/pi/BirdNET-Analyzer && python3 server.py
• Edit config.py and adjust Microphone (RATE, CARD, CHANNELS), and birdnet (LON/LAT) settings
• run the app: `cd /home/pi/birdnetapp && python3 main.py'
• Optional: install systemd services to run on startup birdnet_main.service and birdnet_server.service

Tips

• default influx bucket is main, org home. Change this with ORG and BUCKET variables in config.py
• Telegram notification cooldown is controlled by SEEN_TIME variable in config.py. If a bird has been seen within this time window, it will not trigger notificaitons
• default recording save directory is specified in config.py, SAVEDIR variable
• User can expose SEVEDIR directory over web broser through birdnet_browser.service