I did something similar with my BirdNET + e-ink screen, it's pulling images from wikipedia, dithering and rendering a summary with PIL.

https://i.imgur.com/5XbM6bb.png

Also if anyone is interested, here is the server for the e-ink screen https://github.com/koryk/inky-impression-server

and here is a MCP for birdnet that I've been using for a bit https://github.com/koryk/birdnetpi-mcp-local-server

Love your eink example! You’ve just sent me on a parts shopping trip :)

I’ve been unhappy with my little lcd board I’ve been using for the same here https://github.com/simonjgreen/OpenObservatory as the contrast is bad. I was considering using one of my trmnl displays, but it isn’t quite the right operating model for the frequency of updates I want.

I've also done basically the same this year, I just use a Raspberry pi + a usb mic. https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme

Its very popular with friends and family, especially with older people that dont enjoy traditional tech.

> Unifi exposes an RTSP feed for each camera

Do you mean an RTSP audio only stream separate from the video+audio feed you might ingest to an NVR, or combined audio/video RTSP stream? Most manufacturers of security cameras with ordinary RTSP stream functions support provide both video and audio together. 'Frigate' for instance will auto detect audio stream on a reolink camera and it "just works" in the latest versions of Frigate.

Unifi provides local RTSP streams in different resolutions, birdnet will happily take a rtsp and strip it's audio out for processing (ffmpeg?)

Have you had any difficulty with simultaneously retrieving >1 RTSP stream from the camera at a time, 24x7? Such as full resolution video/audio to a NVR for security purposes and then a second stream to birdnet?

Negative, you can always use go2rtc or scrypted to proxy them.

The e-ink display with woodcut birds sounds like the perfect final form of this project

just use trmnl it will make it super easy

I like my money to not go towards transphobes

i suspect ur talking about the founder ryan ckulp which is very active in his reddit /r/trmnl but cant seem to find any proof of transphobic stance

is there proof? i see that the founder ryan ckulp is active in /r/trmnl but dont see any proof of being misogyn or transphobe

I like my TRMLN it has been very solid.