My house finches are back! Last year they decided to nest on my DragonFruit vine, by the back door, where I don't have a camera, but now they're back!
They moved in on 3/25, literally the day after I told someone, "I haven't had finches here since 2022."
The YouTube stream is up, too, but they're in and out during the day. I expect her to lay her eggs in a few days, and then someone will be on camera almost 24/7:
https://www.youtube.com/@thebeespatellas7441/live
WyzeCam v3 with RTSP firmware, being relayed through a MacMini running ffmpeg, although it could be done with something as simple as a Raspberry Pi, because ffmpeg is just repackaging and relaying the RTSP stream; there's zero transcoding going on, so the CPU load is negligible, even on a very modest machine. I did open the WyzeCam in order to refocus the lens, as the factory default won't focus this close.
They moved in on 3/25, literally the day after I told someone, "I haven't had finches here since 2022."
The YouTube stream is up, too, but they're in and out during the day. I expect her to lay her eggs in a few days, and then someone will be on camera almost 24/7:
https://www.youtube.com/@thebeespatellas7441/live
WyzeCam v3 with RTSP firmware, being relayed through a MacMini running ffmpeg, although it could be done with something as simple as a Raspberry Pi, because ffmpeg is just repackaging and relaying the RTSP stream; there's zero transcoding going on, so the CPU load is negligible, even on a very modest machine. I did open the WyzeCam in order to refocus the lens, as the factory default won't focus this close.
