Crude Guide for BirdNET-Go running on Debian / Raspberry Pi

[MueJosh]

Hey,
this is written by someone with zero knowledge about docker and low skills with Raspbian and Coding in general
To get BirdNET-Go going (...) its much simpler to let it run in a container (I found this out the hard way)

This little Guide should help you to get you BirdNET-Go running.

I am using:

• Raspberry Pi zero 2 w (02W)
• Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy, 64-bit) Lite; Bullseye

This should also work with every other Raspberry Pi

For those that are intersted- other Hardware:

• Ugreen Sound-Card ( Amazon.de )
• Microphone - I followed THIS Guide. If you have questiions on this let me know.
• 1m USB-Extension for the soundcard (noise reductions from PSU..)

I suppose your Pi is already set up (SSH,Internet,..) and your in your USERNAME directory cd /home/YourUsername/

1. First you want to get docker
   Follow this Guide from the official website:
   docker for debian
   #install-using-the-repository

2. next step to get it runnig without sudo
   manage-docker-as-a-non-root-user

3. Now you can test it with this command:
   docker run hello-world

This was the hard Part- now comes the easy one!

4. Now you want to set the (Audio)-Capture device
   deciding-alsa_card-value

5. Add the values to This command
   for my BirdNET-Go it looks like this (see "ALSA_CARD=1")

docker run -ti -p 8080:8080 --env ALSA_CARD=1 --device /dev/snd -v $HOME/birdnet-go-volumes/config:/config -v $HOME/birdnet-go-volumes/data:/data -e TZ="Europe/Berlin" ghcr.io/tphakala/birdnet-go:latest

If your not based in Germany you should edit the

-e TZ="Europe/Berlin"

to your Timezone
e.g with this Wikipedia Link

Now you run your command!

As soon as is says

Listening ...

you know its working :confetti_ball

Now its Time to edit the configuration for your BirdNET-GO
the easy way is with the webpage, open your webbrowser and open this website:
YourDeviceName.local:8080
for my one it looks like this:

http://birdnetoutdoor03.local:8080

head to the settings -> General
Change the Location to your one e.g with THIS

My preferred Settings:

Sensitivity
1.25
Threshold
0.7

Minimum Interval between repeating detections (seconds)
3

Hit > Save

After this I rebooted my system just to make sure everything works.

Type your command again (Step 5)

its 2:45am now, i hope i didnt forget something but this should be it!

Thanks @isZumpo