Future support

[Svardsten53]

Has ehpersonal38 taken a break or left the project? It is now a couple of months since we saw any updates or the excellent support that users received in case of problems.

Currently I have no need for support, my systems work very well, but there are some questions asked by other users. In my opinion the program doesn't lack any functions either, but I'm a little confused about how future updates to the analysis model will be activated if no administrator is available.

[srd424]

Would be good to know - I've got various patches and PRs floating around, some basically just bug fixes, some add small new options / features, others are a bit more architectural and the sort of thing that it would be good to discuss with upstream to see if they're acceptable or not.

On the other hand, I do understand that "real life" has a habit of intruding upon and displacing hobbies, side projects, etc :(

I keep meaning to see if learning stgit can help me manage stacks of patches, but I'm not firing on all cylinders right now sadly.

[ehpersonal38]

Yep, I've taken an indefinite break from this project, but I will stlll try to support it with critical fixes and model updates. I'll only be accepting PRs that fix bugs from now on, in order to keep the project fairly stable.

[srd424]

Ah, that's good to know - feel free to close off my more adventurous stuff (or I'll do it later), I will get my act together and get my own repo tidied up a bit :)

#970 and #975 are sort of borderline bug fixes:

• Check disk usage of filesystem hosting recordings #970 avoids data loss if the root filesystem is fuller than the filesystem mounted over ~pi/BirdSongs, and hopefully is 'obviously correct.' Even outside of a container environment, I guess someone might use an external hard drive or NFS mount even on an RPi.
• Tidy initial config file generation / templating #975 is tidy-up but might make it easier / less confusing to fix things like the default model apparently being out-of-date?

[Svardsten53]

It feels very good that you are keeping an eye on the system in the future as well. I am really very grateful for all the work you have put in so far.

[lloydbayley]

I've had a few messages about support for birdnetpi so i'll reply here so it might help. I've given this project a miss over the past while because it's turned into a big pile of change requests that are extra to what was originally intended. This makes it more and more impossible to keep up with. Once the stuff started becoming beyond bugs, it was turning into an 'i want this' sort of thing, which is fine but once it extends beyond the original intent of the project and becomes a re-write, then it becomes almost impossible to support. The original owner of the repository has all but abandoned it due to health reasons. Any control, be it triage or contributor is not forthcoming and has been met with resistance, so I have given up. I've tried, god knows I've tried but I suggest that anyone wanting to continue this project forks their own and continues under their own steam. This might clarify things and address the messages I have had regarding why I am not helping with birdnetpi anymore. I'm not following the repo or subscribe to messages from it. All the best.

[tphakala]

I can’t say about performance yet, but my main motivation is to get rid of depencency mess of python

[tphakala]

Go-BirdNet is now up at https://github.com/tphakala/go-birdnet, it is very much of work in progress and does not yet live up to promise of ease of deployment as you need to have tflite source available to build

[tphakala]

I now have a working realtime detection built in, this works fully within memory only at the moment. Sound is captured into 3 second buffer which is polled by a buffer monitor which then feeds data to BirdNet engine for detection. Output is still just printing to stdout but I will add SQLite backend and work out saving interesting sound clips to disk.

[tphakala]

I just released a new build of BirdNET-Go, it contains lots of fixes for previous versions.

https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go/releases/tag/v0.4.4

Backend side is starting to be on good level, I have been using this for few months already, I am also using it with my winter time birdfeeder stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXW1efd9Dro

Web UI is still at very early stages and not ready for release.

[tphakala]

I have now published code with Web UI to birdnet-go github, web ui is still very early stages but it can be used to view daily stats can edit birdnet-go configuration. If anyone is willing to help I am open for contributions! Web UI part is based on Go HTML templates, HTMX and Tailwind CSS.