BirdNET (-PI)

dproffer · June 18, 2023, 12:30am

A true integration for Home Assistant would be the ‘cats meow’ (bad bird joke ) This might offer you something as a start. I wrote this rough Python program to send the ‘heard birds’ in BirdNET-Pi (or in my case a branch off that work that is running in a Proxmox VM) via MQTT to Home Assistant.

The BirdNET-Pi project and related work is a lot of fun. The code is a bit long in the tooth IMHO, but it works pretty well. I want to make a pass at simplifying the system, but that is one of many future TODO’s. For now, this code has been working pretty well and lets me see bird info in Home Assistant. You will have to poke around the code a bit to make changes to get it running in your environment, it does not currently have any ‘configuration’ files.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/deepcoder/c309087c456fc733435b47d83f4113ff

birdnet_to_mqtt.py

#! /usr/bin/env python3
# birdnet_to_mqtt.py
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# 202306171542
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# monitor the records in the syslog file for info from the birdnet system on birds that it detects
# publish this data to mqtt
#

import time

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Here is a slight hack python3 program that monitors the syslog output from the BirdNET-Pi bird sound identifications and publishes these records to MQTT. This can be used in Home Assistant to create sensors for the bird identifications.

The program can publish both the output of all birds that BirdNet thinks it hears and also just those above the confidence level that you have set in BirdNET-Pi.

You will have to edit the attached python program 'birdnet_to_mqtt.py' to change the MQTT server, MQTT topics and whether to publish all or just the birds heard above the confidence level.

NOTE: there are different python 'environments' I am not using the birdnet python environment, so any python libraries that are used here are install as root and are used by the python3 binary at: /usr/bin/python3

You will need a couple non-standard python libraries:
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