Birdfy

Nice hardware but app is mixed. We're lucky not to be impacted by the 2.4ghz restriction, but the app still leaves a lot to be desired. Navigation feels slow and somewhat unintuitive. Manual tagging is very frustrating - always suggests the same birds from the other side of the Atlantic, can't enter mammals other than the preconfigured ones. Lots of false positives motion detection with no log l living things. Notifications feel clumsy so have silenced for now and review on a daily basis.

It's great to watch the feeders from your phone, but subs are needed to make the most of it. The "Birdfy Bird Recognition" is monthly/lifetime, and processes the videos in the cloud to identify the bird/squirrel. We've moved the camera away from the feeders to get a better view, so it probably works 20% of the time, but is pretty accurate. Then, you can only filter alerts with a (monthly) "AI Essentials" sub (i.e. only get notified when a bird's identified.) Overall highly recommended though.

Bird ID options are seemingly not great if you don't live in the inland United States. I wanted to record a gull - okay not typical birdfeeder clientele but you go to the coast and try keeping them away - and the only option is seagull. That's not a species! There are lots of different gulls! I should at least be able to make custom labels where the options are lacking.