Fugleramme - an e-ink frame that draws the birds BirdNET-Go hears

[arnegiacomo]

I've been running BirdNET-Go on a Raspberry Pi 5 in my kitchen in Bergen, Norway for a while. I built a thing on top of it that I thought this crowd might like.

Fugleramme is an e-ink frame that reads the BirdNET-Go db and matches detected species to public-domain natural-history cutouts. It packs the birds as a collage and renders them on Inky Impression e-ink panel. Larger birds toward the centre, by body mass, and the smaller around. It refreshes when the species change, and and also serves the same as a web kiosk. Since june I've had 37 different species in over 2000 detections (I've tuned BirdNET to be pretty strict)

Live from my kitchen window: https://fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev
Source: https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme

Thanks for BirdNET-Go. It is such an awesome piece of software, and is such a pleasure to use!

[tariquesani]

That is pretty. Do you also have anything else running along with BirdNET-Go display?

/me waiting for color e-ink displays to get cheaper ;-)

[arnegiacomo]

Hehe yeah, coloured e-ink is pretty damn expensive. This can be built headless, and you can e.g. use your TV or monitor instead of an E-ink (however E-ink is the intended/recommended use). Could you elaborate on what you mean by Do you also have anything else running along with BirdNET-Go display?

[tphakala]

Thank you, I will add this to related projects in project readme

[arnegiacomo]

Hey @tphakala, are you still gonna do this?

[hpk60]

That looks very nice, great project.
I'd like to place such an e-ink display at home, however, whem I place it near the Pi 5 nobody will see the beautiful picture.
Is it possible to use a spare Pi 4 or even Pi 0 connected to the e-ink display, that reads the db from the productive Pi 5 over WLAN?

[arnegiacomo]

Great question! I've gotten a few requests for this already and am experiencing this issue myself too. I am putting this as my top priority and likely will be working on it over the weekend.

I'm unsure what the final solution will look like, but I feel like reading the db over LAN seems hacky and wrong and I think I will look into integrating with the REST api (so that this also can work over internet and support auth and so on).

Optimally I'd like to be able to run this on a Pi4 or even a Pi Zero 2. Right now I've only tested on the 2gb pi 5.

[hpk60]

Glad to hear that ... let the Pi 5 do all the work and use the Pi Zero to drive the display :-)

[hpk60]

One more question. What about an installation of fugleramme with an existing BirdNET-go installation? bng defaults to port 8080, same as fugleramme.

[arnegiacomo]

Ill take this into account when working on #4242 (reply in thread)

[hpk60]

Tried to install on a fresh SDcard with:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme/main/install.sh | bash

and got the following error:
==> python env
error: No pyproject.toml found in current directory or any parent directory
error: No pyproject.toml found in current directory or any parent directory

installation aborts.

[arnegiacomo]

Hey @hpk60 can we take this discussion in the https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme discussions instead? (I don't think this thread is a good place to do tech support). If others experience the same its better to have it centralised

I ran the install on a fresh raspbian install like a week ago, but there might be holes for different setups - nice to get those ironed out.

[arnegiacomo]

btw i just fixed this (slip up during a refactor 😳 thanks for the heads up!)

[hpk60]

Thanks Arne for the updates of the last weeks, it's a very useful addition to birdnet-go.
Here is a link to a spot in Switzerland, Lake Wohlen near Berne (detections of the last 24h):

https://fugleramme.does-it.net/