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[Nachtzuster]

Hi All,

I've been building on @mcguirepr89's most exelent work to futher update and improve BirdNET-Pi. Since these changes are unlikely to get merged here, I'd like to point to my fork here. Maybe someone will find it useful.
https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi

Changes include:

• Bookworm support
• Expirimental support for writing transient files to tmpfs
• Rework analysis to consolidate analysis/server/extraction. Should make analysis more robust and slightly more efficient, -especially on installations with a large number of recordings
• Bump tflite_runtime to 2.11.0, it is faster
• Rework daily_plot.py (chart_viewer) to run as a daemon to avoid the very expensive startup-
• Bump apprise version, so more notification type are possible
• Fix: Setting Excluded/Custom species from the UI, that have a ' now works
• Fix: Setting apprise notification body and apprise notification title that include 'special' characters like "{} now is possible. So you can send json now
• Fix: add missing laguages for new model
• Fix: Daily Chart was not including new detections due to caching
• Fix: changing advanced settings was not updating on a fresh install ed. CHANNELS, RECORDING_LENGHT, ... simplify

anyone aware of other active forks?

[pddpauw]

yes, I have an active fork here for Pi5:

• right verions of php in the CaddyFile (current version is 8.2)
• disable Apache (which gets installed)
• enable Caddy as systemd service
• change permission in /home/pi/ to make this work (chmod 755 to this folder) - note that this is not ideal. Preferably, we move all www data to /var/www/. It works, but can be optimized.
• change in the requirement.txt file to tflite_runtime-2.14.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_34_armv7l.whl
• refresh the database in the script plotly_streamlit.py (st.cache_resource.clear())
• disable the terminal from the webpage Importantly, if you wish to enable this, then feel free to adapt in views.php in your homepage/ folder (after installation), and uncomment line 264, and comment line 265
• change table in homepage to 100 species (change # readings in daily_plot.py (line 46)) AND optimize layout for the table
• use V2.4 Model V2
• OPTIONAL: optimize for 4G environment (limit data usage): no automatic refresh of tables (in overview.php), not showing spectrogram (they get created, but not shown in the homepage)

https://github.com/pddpauw/BirdPi

[Nachtzuster]

Ah yes, I looked at the changes you did for RPi5 while poking around to get Bookworm going, so Thanks!

[blogdemoi]

Hi All,

I've been building on @mcguirepr89's most exelent work to futher update and improve BirdNET-Pi. Since these changes are unlikely to get merged here, I'd like to point to my fork here. Maybe someone will find it useful. https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi

Thank you. I am currently running a Birdnet-Pi on a Le Potato card. I see on your fork that it is possible to migrate. What does it mean exactly? That I can switch from the original Birdnet-Pi to your fork? Will the migration work for Le Potato card?

[Nachtzuster]

The idea is that if you are currently running a fully up-to-date original BirdNET-Pi, you can switch to my fork and keep your data.
Of course, having a backup before doing that is recommended ;-)

yes, it will work on a Le Potato, in fact, that is what I have running as my 'production' system.

[blogdemoi]

Ok, thanks, I will try in the coming weeks.

[Nachtzuster]

One question though: what OS are you using?
I'm running https://www.armbian.com/lepotato/

[Aixsponsa]

I had a similar question to the one above. Is it as easy as running the installation and then using the migration instructions?

Are there any known bugs specific to your fork?

Thanks for adding to this project!

[Aixsponsa]

For new installs, I would recommend running the installer from my fork.
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi/main/newinstaller.sh | bash
That way you can use Bookworm, not the aging Bullseye.

Looks like it worked perfectly. I upgraded to bookworm and am receiving an apache page instead of the birdnet page. Did I miss something? Does apache need to be disabled?

[pddpauw]

yes... several things need to be done for bookworm (disabling apache, enabling caddy, changing a line in the caddy file, changing user permissions).

All of this is done in my repository, you can find this here:

https://github.com/pddpauw/BirdPi

good luck!

[Nachtzuster]

@Searchyourname I'm not sure I understand: are you saying you started with Bullseye and then upgraded that system to Bookworm?

[Aixsponsa]

Correct. I migrated to your repo. Everything updated/upgraded fine. I then went through the steps to upgrade my pi to bookworm.

I am guessing at this point I should just do a fresh install.

[Nachtzuster]

I see. If you want Bookworm you should indeed start with a fresh install. I should have been clearer on that, sorry.

[Oripy]

I'm very interested!
How can I switch to your fork?
I made some modification to my install (I translated the interface strings to French and added the latest Species range model from BirdNET-Analyser).

[Nachtzuster]

weird - I wonder if it might have to do with the privacy setting. Could you try setting it to zero?

[Oripy]

That did the trick, I got my first detection (a Short-toed treecreeper)!
I wonder why the Privacy Threshold is broken...

[Nachtzuster]

Glad to hear that!
Could be a bug from the original BirdNET-Pi, still it is possible I broke it somehow.

[Oripy]

It was working fine until until I switched to your repo. However I made a mess with my way to update, so it might still be an issue only on my install. I will track it down.

[Oripy]

Hum, still a bit suspicious about the result I get. I have a lot of Tawny owl (Strix aluco) detections between 2p.m and 3p.m which is suspicious (highest confidence is 94%).
I know that I have one near me, so it might have decided to call during the day, but it is suspicious...
I will listen to the recording when I have the chance.

[tastyfishes]

Hey, I migrated to your fork as I saw you had marked that apprise notifications with {} are fixed. However when sending {"Common_Name": "$comname", "Scientific_Name": "$sciname"} through MQTT it comes through as \{"Common_Name": "New Holland Honeyeater", "Scientific_Name": "Phylidonyris novaehollandiae"\}

I checked the Apprise version and it is 1.7.1, does that seem right?

[Nachtzuster]

That Apprise version does looks ok.
Could you open an issue in my repo?
Is this an actual notification or one sent though the 'Send Test Notification' button?

[tastyfishes]

Thanks for your reply, I tested it further and the actual notification works correctly but the 'Send Test Notification' doesn't. I'll open an issue for if you want to fix this.

[Sparkybreno]

Thankyou @Nachtzuster I’ve switched to your fork. Is there a way to run an update from the command line? My pi crashed last night and the interface was unusable. I’ve done a clean install and shall see how I go

[harrymnel]

@Nachtzuster would it be possible to utilise the newest BirdNet Analyzer version V2.4 - V2, Jan 2024?

[Nachtzuster]

Yes, I had it in the backlog.
It is in there if you want to enable it: