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At least for a Pi4 there probably isn't so much battery power to be saved by disabling the recording and analysis. Mine runs right around 6% processor usage, and I wouldn't expect much in the way of incremental peripheral power usage from the BirdNET-Pi related processes. If it was pulling a lot higher CPU usage then maybe this would help. If you want to save power there are options though. This isn't specific to BirdNET-Pi, but I'm using a WittyPi 4 L3V7 board on mine. It has a charge controller for 3.7v Lithium ion/polymer batteries and a realtime clock. You can use it to power a Raspberry Pi, seamlessly go from external to battery power, and schedule startup/shutdown, including a graceful shutdown when the battery is low. If you already have the battery power sorted then their simpler WittyPi 4 model would probably be enough. It has the RTC and power scheduling functions but no battery interface. |
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Thanks for the advice, colleague! Indeed, the application itself consumes little energy, but I plan to completely disable the RaspPi and then give the command to boot the operating system again. This operation will save energy, I hope :-)) I turned off HDMI and Wi-Fi. Maybe the "cron" team will help me, it is in the BirdNET-pi assembly? |
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Thanks! I will definitely try it! In the BirdNet-Pi assembly from Nachtzuster, the crown is included in the software? |
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Greetings! Would it be great if the BirdNET-Pi had the ability to activate audio monitoring at certain times of the day? For example, to monitor night and twilight birds (owls, nightjars, etc.), so as not to monitor all birds 24/7 and save battery power in an autonomous installation. Or is there such a function, but I don't know about it? Thanks!
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