Comment by dewey

Comment by dewey 7 hours ago

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Over the holidays I was building a wooden birdhouse with a Unifi Protect camera and a small web interface that automatically identifies the birds and shows me a simple overview over which type of bird visited how many times.

Birdhouse: https://img.notmyhostna.me/cRQ1gJfZCHjQKwFrgKQj

UI:

- https://img.notmyhostna.me/Hnw4qcvbg1ZQCrFxzGMn

- https://img.notmyhostna.me/62TFwSXSRRbCfxDz297h

- https://img.notmyhostna.me/40qhgHmSqQsrGr8BC7Db

- https://img.notmyhostna.me/9bgz4GYsjQH33n3MtWKp (Face labeling, so I can show thumbnails of the actual birds that visited and train a ML model on it in the future)

adityaathalye 7 hours ago

"birdhomie" 10/10 naming skilz :)

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  • dewey 7 hours ago

    Thanks, it's named after a similar commercial project called Birdbuddy but I didn't want to pay for a subscription and potentially have some e-waste on my hands in a few years. I also wanted to have it integrated in my existing Unifi setup.

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    • adityaathalye 6 hours ago

      Ah yet another glorious yak shave... "Hacker refuses to pay for coercive subscription service which isn't even compatible with the home setup, and spends inordinate time and resources making the thing themselves.".

      I approve :)

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