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The AI checks my bird feeder camera every night and keeps the bird list

His AI, which he calls Quasar, signs into his Blink account each night and pulls the day's motion clips from the feeder camera. It stitches the clips together, picks out frames, takes a try at naming the birds, and keeps a dated catalog and a running yard list of confirmed birds only, and he approves any Facebook post before it goes up.

How it works

  1. He signs the AI into his Blink account once and approves the login
  2. The AI keeps the login saved on its own machine and refreshes it
  3. Each night it pulls that camera's motion clips from the day
  4. It downloads the clips and stitches them together with ffmpeg
  5. It picks frames and tries to name the birds
  6. It files the day in a dated folder with a log
  7. It adds confirmed birds to his Yard Life List page and keeps birds it is unsure of in a candidates section for him to rule on
  8. He approves the Facebook post before it goes up

Why it’s worth knowing

It does the whole night shift on its own, clips, stitching, naming and filing, and it knows not to put a bird on the list until a person has checked it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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