EarlyBird - a solar powered bird watching project

[chriglu]

Hey

I just wanted to show you my solar powered bird-watching-project:
http://earlybird.christian-fahrni.ch



I'm using a RaspberryPi with two usb-webcams and two temperature sensors (DS18B20, via gpio) attached. The whole system is solar powered with a 80W solarmodule and a 85Ah battery. The system takes snapshot and video footage and upload it to my wordpress site and youtube. Every 5 minutes, the current temperature and other useful data is being collected and uploaded to cosm.com

Used software: Video/Image-Capture (motion), DynDNS-Updates (ddclient), VideoEncoder (ffmpeg, v4l-conf), Youtube-Upload (googlecl), Twitter-Update-Script, ntp, ProwlNotifier-Script, ncftp, cosm.com, wordpress and a lot of selfmade bash-script to automate the processes

They just started to make a nest this morning!
If there are any questions, feel free to ask.

[chriglu]

They've just laid the first egg!

[texy]

Hi,
great project! Which webcams are you using? Are both connected to the same Pi?

Texy

[Ravenous]

I started reading your site yesterday - you have some great videos on there!

That's a decent solar power & battery system too.

[chriglu]

Our six birds just started to hatch!!
http://earlybird.christian-fahrni.ch/aufnahmen



In the video you can see it at around 9:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ug4clnf ... age#t=565s

[Ravenous]

Congratulations! They look hungry and noisy...

[chriglu]

Hi,
great project! Which webcams are you using? Are both connected to the same Pi?

Texy

Oh, haven't seen your post. sorry!

Both Webcams are connected through a powered usb hub.
- Outside: Logitech HD C310
- Inside: Logitech HD C270