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Posted by speckx 13 hours ago

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system(jasontucker.blog)
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IneffablePigeon 10 hours ago|
Wild that I could read this article, give DeepSeek about 4 sentences of prompts and have it running on my own homelab and unifi cameras in about 10 minutes.

The future mostly sucks but some parts are pretty cool.

IncreasePosts 13 hours ago||
> No waiting. No manual recording.

> No cloud services. No API calls.

> No subscription fees. No terms of service changes. No company shutting down the service in two years.

order-matters 12 hours ago||
how confident is it in the identification? i imagine sometimes the angle is or resolution is bad and it may detect a bird but not have a lot to go off of to say what kind. does it narrow the list down or just make a guess?
tdb7893 12 hours ago|
It looks like they are using audio. Even with poor audio on my phone I find that it works very well. Once in a blue moon I'll get an ID I am doubtful of from BirdNet but it's rare in my experience.
order-matters 11 hours ago||
but the thing with AI is that it excels in creating things we would not doubt, regardless of the truth. in particular, i find it to be susceptible to avoiding doubt at the expense of truth.

though i would be hopeful for bird audio, as differentiating their calls is something the birds themselves excel at, so it could very well be a great usecase for ai

tolerance 13 hours ago||
I am imagining a Gary Larson strip about a flock of birds who are so not fond of this.
koinedad 11 hours ago||
Really cool! The fart detector was a hilarious bonus
trjordan 12 hours ago||
Related: https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi

I really gotta set mine up!

larodi 10 hours ago||
Incredible! I never realized these models are open, always used them via the app. Project is top also!
twilo 6 hours ago||
Is it possible to run on macOS? I’m guessing docker
scary-size 13 hours ago||
Really nice project! Expected a visual ID system, surprised it was using audio. "Flock" would be a great name for the project...oh well!
alansaber 4 hours ago|
Finally, ATC for my garden
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