iOS app, solar for thermal camera, bird recognition and more.
Thermal camera updates
Solar, iOS, test recordings and a preview
We have published a description of how to set up a solar system for a thermal camera. Auckland Council set up something like this at the end of one of their predator proof fences and other customers are either doing the same or thinking about it. It's fairly straightforward to do with off the shelf components and it saves you the hassle of charging batteries.
We've done some updates to the thermal camera software that let you do a test recording when you're setting up the camera. This update also makes two second test recordings at the start and the end of each day of recording.
Finally, we've added a preview of our new visits dashboard that provides concise summaries of the animals identified on your cameras. There is still a reasonable amount of work to make this fully functional. In the meantime we would love your feedback.
We are still having a camera sale.
Bird monitor can detect birds
More species coming soon
We have been working on our software to recognise bird calls. We released an interim step where we can identify generic bird calls. It seems to work pretty well.
We still automatically identify morepork/ruru and are working on identifying more species. The birds we can identify best are those that have plenty of tagged examples. If you would like to automatically identify the birds in your area then please find someone who can identify the birds in your recordings and we will give them access to the tagging interface.