Comparison with BirdPi-Net? #327
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Hi all, I am not really a birder, but I am building a system for a Christmas present. What I haven't seen mentioned anywhere are the primary differences between this project and Birdnet-pi. I'm trying to decide which would be best for my use case. This will be installed at a relative's house with no ability for me to remote access or trouble shoot and not a super tech savvy user. For that reason I really love that birdnet-go has a docker release available. If it were just me I would do both and play with it, but I don't have a lot of time before Christmas. Which is the most fire-and-forget with least up-keep and reliability? Is there a feature comparison somewhere? are they even comparable projects? Thanks! |
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Of course, I just found that you answered this here. |
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It is really the perfect gift. Your relatives will be very happy to receive it! I installed it at my grandparents' place around May, and it has been running very hands off since then. |
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Thank you for the info! Did you ever use Birdnet-Pi? If so, what are your thoughts on the comparison as far as remote management and easy of use for less tech savvy folks? |
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One of big issues with BIrdNET-Pi is how it records audio, it wears sd cards out really quickly and it is not uncommon for sd card to fail after few months of use. At minimum I would use high endurance sd card, but it just prolongs inevitable sd card failure. |
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Understood! Thanks for the great project! I think the current fork of birdnet-pi that is being updated has moved away from this, or at least offered record to ram as an option: |
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@tphakala covers the comparisons quite well in his answers in this and the other discussion thread. I only tried birdnet-pi at the start of this year for a short while. At that point birdnet-pi was quite abandoned and none of the newer forks existed. The only thing I felt that birdnet-go was lackning in comparison to birdnet-pi at that point was images of the detected birds. Which I later added in a PR to birdnet-go. I did find the installation process of birdnet-pi annoying since it required executing a script that installed a bunch stuff directly on the os, I much prefer running software in containers. Also feels like birdnet-go has a more modern UI design that might be more natural for users. Though, all of the above are more of my personal opinions, so if you have the chance, I would recommend to try out both and see which one you prefer. |
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As a software developer, I really appreciate the work put in to BirdNet-Go. BirdNet-Pi is using much older technology (PHP scripting) and the UI mirrors that. I started some work trying to clean up BirdNet-Pi, but after finding and testing Birdnet-Go, I am hoping to work on this instead. Other technical things: I'm not finding realtime stream/spectograms yet (which I use for checking my mic settings), but so far I'm loving what I'm seeing. |
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Of course, I just found that you answered this here.