Logs?

[tomlut]

I used to use the following command to get an idea of what was going on:

journalctl -t birdnet-go -f

Since using the install script on a new installation this no longer appears to work. Is there a similar command I can use?

The reason I ask is that after setting up my new system I could not get any detections until I disabled the privacy filter. Even though there were no people talking or dogs barking. I would like to debug this.

[tphakala]

install.sh deploys birdnet-go as docker container so from journald point of view logs are no longer coming from birdnet-go process but from docker process. There are few ways to follow docker logs.

1. Using journalctl, if you have only one docker container on system you can do
   journalctl -t docker -f

2. Using docker logs command
   Get container id (this will change every time container is restarted) witth docker ps

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                 COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                       NAMES
56ecf2247fd7   ghcr.io/tphakala/birdnet-go:nightly   "/usr/bin/birdnet-go…"   28 seconds ago   Up 28 seconds   0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, :::8080->8080/tcp   charming_ptolemy

In this case id is 56ecf2247fd7

Use id to get logs with "docker logs ID -f" command, -f option is follow so logs will print as they come in from birdnet-go

$ docker logs 56ecf2247fd7 -f

🐦 BirdNET-Go vunknown (built: 2025-02-20T00:29:08Z), using config file: /root/.config/birdnet-go/config.yaml
INFO: Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.
BirdNET GLOBAL 6K V2.4 FP32 model initialized, using 4 threads of available 4 CPUs
System details: linux debian 12.9 on  hardware
Starting analyzer in realtime mode. Threshold: 0.8, overlap: 2.7, sensitivity: 1, interval: 15
Logging disabled
2025/02/22 09:52:05 BirdImageCache initialized (all species images already cached)
HTTP server started on port 8080 (AutoTLS: false)
2025/02/22 09:52:05 Clip retention policy: usage
⇨ http server started on [::]:8080
Available Capture Sources:
  0: Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture), null
  1: Default Audio Device, default
  2: Default Audio Device, sysdefault
  3: Sound Blaster Play! 3, USB Audio, :1,0 (✅ selected)
Listening on source: Sound Blaster Play! 3, USB Audio (:1,0)

[tomlut]

Perfect. Thank you. Turns out one of my neighbours was playing music, the vocals were tripping the privacy filter.