chasem12345/hass-aviary

Aviary is a Home Assistant add-on that collects bird detections from two separate systems and displays them in a single dashboard inside your Home Assistant setup. It connects to Frigate NVR, which uses a camera to identify birds visually, and BirdNET-Go, which identifies birds by their calls using audio. Both systems publish their detection results to MQTT, a messaging protocol common in home automation. Aviary subscribes to those messages and stores every detection in a local SQLite database. It does not do any bird identification itself, it only aggregates results from the two sources that already do that work. The dashboard appears as a sidebar entry in Home Assistant on both desktop and mobile. You can browse recent detections, view a live-refreshing feed, and click into individual species pages that show totals, first and last sightings, and activity charts. When you open a detection from Frigate, it plays the video clip or snapshot. When you open a detection from BirdNET-Go, it plays the audio recording with a spectrogram. Detections can be filtered by day and are paginated for long lists. Installation works through the standard Home Assistant add-on store. You add the repository URL, find Aviary in the store, and install it. The configuration tab asks for the URLs of your Frigate and BirdNET-Go instances and lets you override MQTT settings if you are not using the default Mosquitto broker. Once started, the add-on can also backfill existing detections from both sources on startup. The project is new, created in July 2026, and appears aimed at birding enthusiasts who already run Frigate and BirdNET-Go at home.