Acoupi BatDetect2 working great

[SarahDal]

Just an update as you said you would be interested in hearing how I got on, I've not got it deployed currently but I had it running Acoupi on a Pi 4b (using a self-build microphone from https://www.pippyg.com/) in my garden and it works great, posting to https://mas.to/@squeak_signal when it detects something, although there's not many bats to test it on so I've brought it back indoors.

I also ran the recordings through the BTO Acoustic Pipeline, by comparing the results it looks like BatDetect2 is classifying Brown Rat as 62% - 75% Nyctalus leisleri, Lesser Noctule. We're hoping to speak to the BTO in the next few weeks to see if we can get either their model or at least their mammal calls to train BatDetect2 on.

[mbsantiago]

Hey @SarahDal HNY. Wow, thanks so much for sharing the mastodon feed! Would love to see how you integrated this, someone else might find this helpful down the line. Let me know how it goes with the BTO, it would be great to adjust batdetect2 to at least avoid these misclassifications.

[SarahDal]

I use HomeAssistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) on a pi on the same network, which has an integration to post to Mastodon.

The Acoupi sends a message to HA's MQTT broker, and HA runs an automation that then posts it to Mastodon. So it's not really a field solution but it wouldn't be too difficult to write a quick python script that could run on the Acoupi pi to post (and/or to bsky) if it's got an internet connection. I've also picked up a couple of Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/) devices - I'd love to get it working with them.

Will keep you update! Happy New Year!