birdnet-go

Home assistant add-on: Birdnet-Go

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About

BirdNET-Go is an AI solution for continuous avian monitoring and identification developed by @tphakala

This addon is based on their docker image.

Configuration

Install, then start the addon a first time. Webui can be found at http://homeassistant:8080. You'll need a microphone : either use one connected to HA or the audio stream of a rstp camera.

The audio clips folder can be stored on an external or SMB drive by mounting it from the addon options, then specifying the path instead of "clips/". For example, "/mnt/NAS/Birdnet/"

Options can be configured through three ways :

• Addon options

ALSA_CARD : number of the card (0 or 1 usually), see https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go/blob/main/doc/installation.md#deciding-alsa_card-value
TZ: Etc/UTC specify a timezone to use, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
COMMAND : realtime --rtsp url # allows to provide arguments to birdnet-go

• Config.yaml Additional variables can be configured using the config.yaml file found in /config/db21ed7f_birdnet-go/config.yaml using the Filebrowser addon

• Config_env.yaml Additional environment variables can be configured there

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.

1. Add my add-ons repository to your home assistant instance (in supervisor addons store at top right, or click button below if you have configured my HA)

   

2. Install this add-on.

3. Click the Save button to store your configuration.

4. Set the add-on options to your preferences

5. Start the add-on.

6. Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.

7. Open the webUI and adapt the software options

Integration with HA

Home Assistant Integration instructions are found here, Birdnet-Go Addon: Home Assistant Integration

Setting up a RTSP Source using VLC

VLC opens a TCP port but the stream is udp. Because of this will need to configure Birdnet-Go to use udp. Adjust the config.yaml file to udp or use the birdnet-go command line option:

--rtsptransport udp --rtsp rtsp://192.168.1.21:8080/stream.sdp

Linux instructions

Run vlc without an interface using one of these commands:

# This should work for most devices
/usr/bin/vlc -I dummy -vvv alsa://hw:0,0 --no-sout-all --sout-keep --sout '#transcode{acodec=mpga}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/stream.sdp}'

# Try this if the first command does not work
/usr/bin/vlc -I dummy -vvv alsa://hw:4,0 --no-sout-all --sout-keep --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/stream.sdp}'

Run arecord -l to get microphone hardware info

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3220 Analog [ALC3220 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: S7 [SteelSeries Arctis 7], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: Nano [Yeti Nano], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 4: Device [USB PnP Sound Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

hw:4,0 = card 4: Device [USB PnP Sound Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]

Systemd service file example. Adjust the user:group accordingly. If you want to run as root, you will likely need to run vlc-wrapper instead of vlc.

[Unit]
Description=VLC Birdnet RTSP Server
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
StandardOutput=journal
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vlc -I dummy -vvv alsa://hw:0,0 --sout '#transcode{acodec=mpga}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/stream.sdp}'
User=someone
Group=somegroup

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Common issues

Not yet available

Support

Create an issue on github

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