starting this to get some help

scripts/server.py

@@ -243,6 +243,32 @@ def sendAppriseNotifications(species,confidence):
                 title=title,
             )
 
+        if str(str(str([i for i in this_run if i.startswith('APPRISE_NOTIFY_NEW_SPECIES')]).split('=')[1]).split('\\')[0]) == "1":
+            try: 
+                con = sqlite3.connect(userDir + '/BirdNET-Pi/scripts/birds.db')
+                cur = con.cursor()
+                cur.execute("SELECT DISTINCT(Com_Name) FROM detections")
+                known_species = cur.fetchall()
+                sciName,comName = species.split("_")
+                
+                print("\ncomName: ",comName)
+                print("\nknown_species: ",known_species)
+                if comName not in known_species:
+                    apobj = apprise.Apprise()
+                    config = apprise.AppriseConfig()
+                    config.add(userDir + '/BirdNET-Pi/apprise.txt')
+                    apobj.add(config)
+                
+                    apobj.notify(
+                    body=body.replace("$sciname",species.split("_")[0]).replace("$comname",species.split("_")[1]).replace("$confidence",confidence),
+                    title=title,
+                    )
+                
+                con.close()
+            except:
+                print("Database busy")
+                time.sleep(2)
+
 def writeResultsToFile(detections, min_conf, path):
 
     print('WRITING RESULTS TO', path, '...', end=' ')