Birdnet not installing on raspberry pi

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Hi I recently needed to upgrade my old birdnet solution and purchased new Raspberry Pi 5 hardware. I am following the guide here (noting the guide is for Raspberry Pi 4B) : Identify Birds through Sound with a Raspberry Pi | BirdNET-Pi Project - Tutorial Australia

everything was working fine up until and including the boot of the new Raspberry Pi OS image. My problem occurred when I tried to run the curl command in the terminal. The command:

curl -sL https://coreelec.io/birdnet | bash

did not produce the output as per the instructions. It seemed to fail quietly with no error messages. The terminal prompt just returned to the next line. It didn’t ask for any input and didn’t complain of any errors. This happened within a few seconds of running the curl command.

Consequently I have been unable to install the birdnet image on my Raspberry Pi. has there been any change to the aforementioned curl command? Is it not suitable for a Raspberry Pi 5 ? any help appreciated. thanks.

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Hey there, @Kathryn328968, and welcome to the forum. Glad to have you here.

No worries there, this is a common issue. The guide needs a bit of an update. The command now needs to be:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi/main/newinstaller.sh | bash

That should get it sorted. Once done, you’ll be in for many long years of knowing the birds singing around your property.

(now if only I could find a version for identifying frogs)

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great thank you. I will try it later today. Much appreciated.:slightly_smiling_face:

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