Mastodawn

Can anyone recommend a combination of hardware/software/host for webcams that I could point at some heavily trafficked backyard bird feeders? I’m about to enter a period of reduced mobility and would love to be able both to keep watching and share the joy.

(edit: ideally, something that can stream publicly as well as be viewed in-house)

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Parsingphase

Related, does anyone know how you'd obtain and run something like the iNaturalist image classification model locally? It's an area of tech I've never really got into, and it seems to be harder to discover now LLMs are sucking all the air out of the AI space (not to mention screwing up web search & cluttering the internet with trash)