BirdNET-PI & HomeAssistant: Part 2

Checking for Entities If you鈥檙e following up on this from my first post, you鈥檝e already added your AppDaemon script and confirmed that the AppDaemon logs don鈥檛 show any errors. Now is the true test if it鈥檚 working: do you have the new sensors in HomeAssistant?! The best way to do this is by just type e from any screen in the HomeAssistant UI! That will bring up a list of entities....

October 4, 2023 路 10 min 路 1986 words 路 Me

Creating a BirdNetPi Dashboard in HomeAssistant - Part 1

This is Part One of a Two Part Series. You can find Part Two, here. Update: 10/11/2023. A huge thanks to Mastodon User e_mobile2014 who found a broken link in this guide and pointed out that I never explained how to get the mqtt sensors into HomeAssistant! What you will need BirdNET-Pi HomeAssistant AppDaemon MQTT Broker (I use Mosquitto) Background In early 2023, at the height of the Raspberry Pi shortage I felt like a king with an extra Rpi laying around, not being used....

September 30, 2023 路 12 min 路 2484 words 路 Me