Birdnet-go is a real-time sound analyzer that detects bird species. It can take in audio from microphones. I set mine up to stream audio from my security cameras that I already had installed. There’s even a Home Assistant App, if you’re using it.
I live in a more suburban/semi-urban environment, but was really surprised to so many different bird species.
Decouple people from big tech, allow people to run, fix, and maintain their own hardware instead of replacing it on an industrial scale every 6-9 months and centralizing ownership in data centers.
My entire stack runs off a 14kw solar array with a battery. Net negative. It’s totally doable.
Edit: also I tested my stack against a stimulated 1k active users and couldn’t get it to break a sweat, so I’m not saying everyone needs to do things this way, but your techiest uncle could host the entire family in a privacy cooperative, for instance