Last seen bird card (with picture) in Home Assistant

[PovilasID]

Hey,

I wanted to learn how does a bird that I am hearing looks, so I spun up this app but I wanted to see in my Home Assistant as nice novelty panel, so here is how I did it.

P.S. You can make a prettier/more compact version but this one does not need any plugins like stack-in-card will work on stock HA

If you want the same:

Pre-requsites:

• MQTT server. MQTT is often used by Home Assistant and you can install it as plugin or use any other tutorial

Birdnet-go config

In the config.yaml set enabled: false under mqtt and provide address and credentials to MQTT server

Home Assistant config

Assuming you have MQTT enabled it may get auto discovered check "Developer" section under states if there is not birdnet already available if not in the configuration.yaml add:

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: "Garden Birds"
      state_topic: "birdnet"
      json_attributes_topic: "birdnet"
      value_template: "{{ value_json.CommonName }}"

Make sure that topics from HA and birdnet-go match. To also get a picture also add a an image template:

template:
  - image:
      - name: Garden bird picture
        verify_ssl: false
        url: "{{ state_attr('sensor.garden_birds','BirdImage')['URL'] }}"

To dashboard panel just edit the dashboard add a Manual card and paste this in:

square: false
type: grid
cards:
  - type: entity
    entity: sensor.garden_birds
    state_color: false
    icon: mdi:bird
  - type: picture
    image_entity: image.garden_bird_picture
  - type: entities
    entities:
      - type: attribute
        entity: sensor.garden_birds
        name: Confidence
        attribute: Confidence
        icon: mdi:percent
      - type: attribute
        entity: sensor.garden_birds
        name: Time
        attribute: BeginTime
        icon: mdi:clock
columns: 1

You can customize the panel any way you like adding picture credit or scientific name etc.

Credit: mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi#342 (reply in thread)

[tphakala]

Thank you for documenting this