How I Turned My Security Cameras Into an Automatic Bird Identification System with BirdNet-Go
Jason Tucker pointed BirdNET-Go, which identifies birds by their song, at the microphones of three home security cameras, running it locally in Docker with alerts into Home Assistant and Discord; as Tucker puts it, "I didn't build this I just installed the Docker Container". Over 12 months it logged 418,726 detections of 271 species at 60.9% average confidence, House Finches leading with 118,667, though the counts are the system's own and Tucker admits "we're not birders". A September update adds that Google's Perch v2 model overloaded Tucker's 2011 laptop chip, and that Perch run on its own, which the BirdNET-Go FAQ does not intend, invented thousands of Redwings and daytime Great Horned Owls, so Tucker went back to BirdNET alone.
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