install_services.sh now symlinks five frontend files (index.html,
styles.css, apt.js, masks.json, dims.json) from avian/frontend/ into
the Caddy site root. Caddy serves index.html before index.php, so /
shows the collage and BirdNET-Pi's stock UI moves to /index.php
(still linked from the menu drawer).
API shims stay under /avian/api/. apt.js fetches them with
./avian/api/birdnet-api.php?action=X now that the frontend lives at
root instead of /avian/frontend/.
avian/index.html redirect file removed (no longer needed - / serves
the collage directly).
README + menu drawer updated to reflect / as the entry point and
/index.php as the stock-UI link.
Verified in Docker:
/ 200 text/html (collage, 4 tiles)
/masks.json 200 (276 KB)
/avian/api/... 200 (all PHP shims working)
Caddy serves index.html as default index, index.php still reachable
Blockers
- http://birdnet.local/avian/ now serves the collage (added avian/index.html
redirect to frontend/; previously the symlink target had no top-level
index, so users saw a directory listing of api/ assets/ forwarding/
frontend/ scripts/).
- Gemini model bumped from gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (deprecated
2026-01-15) to the stable gemini-2.5-flash-image. Pregen was non-
functional out of the box.
- avian-mqtt.service: dropped %h (which expands to /root for system-mode
units regardless of User=). Use WorkingDirectory=~ which DOES respect
User=, plus a relative ExecStart.
- birdnet-api.php case 'lifelist' now aliases COUNT(*) AS n (was 'total'),
matching what apt.js reads for atlas card counts. Atlas previously
always displayed 0.
Bugs
- Retry-After parsing handles HTTP-date format without crashing.
- apt.js no longer fetches firstseen/timeseries (declared in state but
never consumed). Two wasted round-trips per page load removed.
- update_birdnet.sh defaults branch=avian-visitors so the (opt-in)
Sunday auto-update cron doesn't reset HEAD to upstream main and
delete the avian/ overlay.
- recording.php: removed dead $BIRDS_JSON_CANDIDATES.
Polish
- Pregen --sleep default raised 4→6s (more headroom under free-tier RPM).
- en-dash in README BOM (~$35–80) replaced with hyphen for style match.
- Slop sweep across user-facing docs: no em-dashes, no en-dashes, no
AI-slop word hits (robust/comprehensive/seamless/etc.).
Restructures the install so users run ONE command. The fork's
newinstaller.sh clones this repo (instead of upstream Nachtzuster) and
runs BirdNET-Pi's installer. install_services.sh symlinks the avian/
overlay into the Caddy site root, so http://birdnet.local/avian/ comes
up after reboot with no Caddy config needed.
Reviewer-flagged fixes:
Frontend (avian/frontend/apt.js)
- Switch all API paths from /api/*.json (which didn't route) to relative
action-based URLs (./api/birdnet-api.php?action=recent etc.).
- Fetch ./masks.json + ./dims.json relatively (were /avian/*.json).
- Replace every innerHTML user-content sink with createElement +
textContent + setAttribute — species labels are user-editable in
BirdNET-Pi, so untrusted.
- Add esc() helper for the few remaining innerHTML attribute contexts.
- fetchJson throws on non-200 (was silently parsing 404 HTML as JSON).
- Defensive null-check in loadMask if MASKS hasn't loaded.
Backend (avian/api/*.php)
- birdnet-api.php now derives DB_PATH from dirname(__DIR__, 3) so any
BirdNET-Pi install user works (no hardcoded /home/birdnet).
- recording/spectrogram/cutout use getenv('HOME') for the same reason.
- cutout.php reworked as the canonical image resolver: bundled
illustration → bundled cutout → cached rembg → fresh
Wikipedia+rembg, with the binomial regex guard and atomic rename
on cache write. Wikipedia URL host pinned to wikimedia.org /
wikipedia.org to block SSRF.
- Stale 'X-BirdNET-Proxy-Token' auth claims removed everywhere.
Pregen (avian/scripts/pregen.py)
- Gemini key moved from URL query to x-goog-api-key header.
- Model bumped to gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview.
- Bounded retry on 429 + 5xx with Retry-After honoured.
- Default --sleep raised from 1s to 4s (under free-tier RPM).
- Unified parser handles |/_/comma in all three input modes.
- responseModalities now [TEXT, IMAGE] (was IMAGE-only).
- --poses validated against POSES keys.
- ASCII [ok]/[fail] markers (was ✓/✗ — Windows console crash).
- Surfaces finishReason + blockReason on safety blocks.
Prompt template
- 'Two placeholders' typo → three.
- 'warm paper' / 'transparent background' contradiction resolved.
Forwarding
- mqtt-bridge.py: paho-mqtt 2.x CallbackAPIVersion compat shim.
- avian-mqtt.service: dropped broken %i, set User=birdnet + %h path.
- forwarding/README.md uses the actual action-based URLs.
README
- One-line install via curl … newinstaller.sh.
- No more 'install BirdNET-Pi separately' step (our fork does it).
- License section uses absolute github.com links.
- bird.onethreenine.net replaces the not-yet-existent project writeup.
- docs/thumb.png replaced with the 24-bird Twitter capture.
Removed
- avian/caddy/ and avian/scripts/install.sh — no longer needed; the
overlay symlink in install_services.sh handles everything.
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