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Posted by speckx 14 hours ago

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system(jasontucker.blog)
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gberger 13 hours ago|
https://xkcd.com/1425/
mcapodici 9 hours ago|
Little did he know in 2026 you can feed that cartoon into AI and it will build you that app
toplinesoftsys 10 hours ago||
Brilliant idea and fantastic project. New use for security cameras. I love it.
alansaber 5 hours ago||
Finally, ATC for my garden
jamesforestwest 13 hours ago||
What an interesting and fun project. Now I want something similar too.
jp191919 12 hours ago||
I'm pretty sure you can do this with Frigate as well.
toomuchtodo 14 hours ago||
Super cool, could be plugged into https://www.earthcam.com/ for global bird tracking.

(i have a few https://www.birdweather.com/ devices strewn across North America and Europe because I am time poor and preferred a turnkey solution for those gifted to, but love the DIY efforts! no affiliation!)

goldie_wilson 9 hours ago||
Finally a good use for Flock cameras. They're even named appropriately.
Aboutplants 14 hours ago||
How do you like the bird weather device? I’m interested in a more turnkey solution as well
toomuchtodo 13 hours ago||
I'm fairly satisfied with it and would recommend it to others who aren't interested in building their own solution. I like supporting the folks who are building it, although I'm unsure what the future looks like for the product. Could enshittify, could turn into Home Assistant Foundation [1] (which I also financially support). Time will tell. That's why I think its important to have open alternatives, similar to how one of the https://www.adsbexchange.com/ operators went rouge [2], sold to private equity, and others have filled the gap with new ADS-B network solutions.

[1] https://www.openhomefoundation.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582907 (citations)

simonjgreen 10 hours ago||
I’ve been working on a similar project for the last few weeks in spare time.

I’m using a AudioMoth USB mic so I can capture extremely high sample rate and also ultrasonic for bat detections.

https://github.com/simonjgreen/OpenObservatory

Disclaimer: I’m also using this to see how far I can push supervised pure AI coding before it turns to mega slop, so know that before you dive in with the disparaging comments :D

enos_feedler 11 hours ago||
just don't use it to catch a congressman being murdered over a privacy bill.
alexanderilg 11 hours ago|
I love this, much better than AngryBirds. Truly an amazing idea!
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