BirdWatcherPi

Materials

• Raspberry Pi 5
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3
• USB 3.0 stick
• USB microphone

Features

• Bird motion detection using OpenCV
• State transitions with debounce to prevent false positives
• Fully configurable with config.py file
• Records bird feeder action when bird presence confirmed
• Asynchronous multithreaded video write stream
• Uploads video to Streamable and sends notification emails via Mailgun

Installation

1. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
2. sudo apt install python3-opencv
3. Create a Streamable and Mailgun account
4. cp config.py.example config.py
5. Configure config.py to your heart's content
6. python3 main.py

TODO

• Organize uploaded files by date in folder
• Have files have clear time
• Hook up the RPI5 and normal camera
• Auto upload to cloud
• Auto start up program at 5am
• Do some recognition to detect if bird is present, not just bg subtraction