Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Swift Bricks

Our swift nesting capacity is increasing...

as we've just added a couple of bricks.

It wasn't completely straightforward.

Monday, 24 November 2025

Dashcam: power from 5Volts?

Can I run a dashcam from a 5V USB supply?

 

Its a simple question...

...but I struggled to get a simple answer.

Saturday, 8 November 2025

BirdNet-Pi Species Stats: post analysis graphing

 

I like graphs!

 

And I like the annual count-by-month bar graph in Species Stats

But I’m less keen on the hourly chart.

Saturday, 4 October 2025

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Linux Fan Running At Full Speed!

I must have had this problem 2 or 3 years

It started after a routine software update

And today I finally got around to investigating why.

Friday, 5 September 2025

BirdNet Systems Testing #1

I thought this would be easy

 Just run BirdNet-Pi alondside BirdNet-Go

Then choose which system to use in the future.

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

BirdNet-Pi: streaming the microphone

This is about audio streaming from my system's mic.

I wanted to use AI to do all the thinking & lead me through the config.

But it didn't turn out to be so simple.