FlockAngel
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FlockAngel
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Yesterday
Write the story for another day
Any day of the last 30 that has ended. It is one short text-only Gemini call, counted against today’s Gemini limit.
Worth a look
FlockAngel is still in observe mode: it notes what looks different but does not message you yet.
Clips
No clips yet. Motion on a connected camera will appear here within a few minutes.
My flock
Add each of your birds: a name, the colour of their ankle tag, and a photo or two.
FlockAngel will use this to tell your birds apart in clips. The tags are what you check in person.
Wild birds
No wild birds in your collection yet. Tap a common visitor below to add it with one tap, or add a custom name.
Birds that have left
Unknown birds
Birds in recent clips that nobody has named yet. Tap one to say who it is, or tick several (Shift-click for a range) to name them in one go. Tap × to dismiss a picture that is not clear.
Guesses
Grouped by who FlockAngel thinks each bird is. Filter to one bird below, accept a group at once, or select a group and untick any exception.
Nothing to name. New birds appear here as clips are analysed.
New bird
- Last seen
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- Today
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Recent sightings
Clips where you said this was her, or FlockAngel matched her. Tap a picture if it is someone else.
None yet. Name her in a clip (Who’s this?) and her sightings collect here.
Activity
What the clip reviews saw her doing in the last 30 days, from clips where she is named or matched.
Nothing yet. Activity shows once clips she is in have been reviewed.
Health log
What you noticed and when: a limp, off her food, a vet visit, back to normal.
Nothing written yet.
Feeding and drinking stations
Mark where the feeder and the drinker are on a camera’s picture, and FlockAngel counts how often each bird goes to them.
No camera picture yet. Once a camera has sent a clip and it has been analysed, its picture appears here to mark the stations on.
Drag a box to move it, and its corners to resize it. Its bottom edge matters most: a bird counts as at the station when her feet are inside.
What counts as a visit
Ring
Other cameras
Tapo, Mercusys and other cameras that speak ONVIF send their clips through the FlockGuard app on a computer at home (Mac or Windows). Open the app, sign in with your FlockGuard email and password, and it finds your cameras and adds them here by itself.
How to get your camera ready
Mercusys (MC200, MC210, MC510 and similar plugged-in cameras): in the Mercusys app tap the camera, then Device Settings, Advanced Settings, Camera Account. Tap “Understand and Agree to Use” and make a username and password of 6 to 32 characters (not your Mercusys login). Set the video quality to “Best Quality”.
Tapo (plugged-in cameras such as C216, C510W and C320WS): in the Tapo app tap the camera, then Settings, Advanced Settings, Camera Account, and make a username and password (6 to 32 characters).
Battery cameras and doorbells cannot be used this way.
Computers with the app
Cameras
Without the app: add a camera code by hand
For the command-line agent on a Raspberry Pi or server. Add the camera here, then paste its setup link into the agent’s setup page (http://localhost:8787).
Copy this now: it is shown once. If you lose it, remove the camera and add it again.
Paste it into the FlockGuard agent’s setup page on the computer at home (http://localhost:8787).
The two parts separately
Notifications
Clips
A small picture of each bird under the video, to name it there. Naming also works under My flock, in Unknown birds. This choice is kept on this device.
Delete each video after counting the birds, keeping only the boxes, counts and bird pictures (and a thumbnail only when no person was detected). When you play a clip, the video is fetched from your Ring account on demand.
Google Gemini
Wild birds collection
Keep a collection of visiting wild birds (wood pigeons, magpies, robins and more) under My flock, name them in clips, and let FlockAngel suggest who they are.
An odd day
A visitor, a storm, a fox scare: tell FlockAngel so today does not count towards what a normal day looks like.
Your data
Download everything FlockAngel holds about your flock apart from video: the counts it recorded, what it noted, your answers, your flock register with its photos and health log, who you said each bird in a clip was, and your feeding and drinking stations with the visits counted at them. Video is deleted automatically after 7 days (24 hours when nothing was in it).
Download my dataDelete my flock and everything in it
This disconnects Ring and permanently deletes your clips, records, flock register and every account on this flock. It cannot be undone.