diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 06eb420..d899356 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ inotify
 requests
 matplotlib
 pillow
+pyarrow==20.0.0
diff --git a/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh b/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh
index 63b870a..85312cb 100755
--- a/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh
+++ b/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ version=$($HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 -c "import seaborn; print(seaborn
 [[ $version != "0.13.2" ]] && sudo_with_user $HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/pip3 install seaborn==0.13.2
 version=$($HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 -c "import suntime; print(suntime.__version__)")
 [[ $version != "1.3.2" ]] && sudo_with_user $HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/pip3 install suntime==1.3.2
+version=$($HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 -c "import pyarrow; print(pyarrow.__version__)")
+[[ $version != "20.0.0" ]] && sudo_with_user $HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/pip3 install pyarrow==20.0.0
 
 PY_VERSION=$($HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 -c "import sys; print(f'{sys.version_info[0]}{sys.version_info[1]}')")
 tf_version=$($HOME/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 -c "import tflite_runtime; print(tflite_runtime.__version__)")