From 3cf7ac191b4cea5e80f4ee12c0bfaea1eff61531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Teddy Warner <teddy@intempus.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:13:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] readme: note image generation needs a billing-enabled
 key (#11)

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 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d807975..95c264d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The repo ships with 498 bundled illustrations (249 species, perched + flight). T
 
 ```bash
 pip install -r ~/BirdNET-Pi/avian/scripts/requirements.txt
-export GEMINI_API_KEY='your-key'
+export GEMINI_API_KEY='your-key'  # image generation requires billing enabled
 
 # generate on a cream ground, cut the ground off, rebuild the collage masks
 python3 ~/BirdNET-Pi/avian/scripts/pregen.py --labels ~/BirdNET-Pi/model/labels.txt --force