Hi all, I am a new user to audiomoths and passive acoustic monitors generally. I have a couple of questions that I hope the community here may have expereince in or at least suggestions to push me in the right direction. We are planning to deploy audiomoths in conjunction with camera traps to create an array of monitoring stations to monitor terrestrial mammals, the bird community, and anthropogenic disturbance such as vehicle noise and gunshots. The environment is very arid desert, where summer temperatures can exceed 50 degrees Celsius at their peak. This has lead me to a few questions; 1. Could the ambient temperatures represent a problem for the audiomoths in the summer? We plan to house them in the IPX7 Case (https://www.labmaker.org/products/audiomoth-ipx7-case) 2. Is there a way to configure the audiomoths to record at dawn and dusk to detect bird species when they are most likely to be vocal, as well as having a threshold mode where triggers such as vehicle noise and gun shots wake the audiomoth from sleep and record them? I can see from the manual that it has a triggered recording and a schedule mode, but can one device run both modes simultaneously? 3. Finally I saw on another post that it is potentially possible to integrate the audiomoth with a solar panel (https://www.openacousticdevices.info/support/device-support/integrating-solar-panels-with-batteries-to-audiomoth). Has anyone successfully done this and can confirm that I would need to purchase all of the components listed here (https://www.waveshare.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=solar+power)? If so would they be willing to provide some guidance on how to correctly attach the relevant components. Thanks in advance for your time. Tom Bruce

Hey everyone, I want to record birds from 1h to sunrise to 4h after sunrise for 10 min each hour (10 min recording, 50 min sleep for a duration of 5h). I was thinking about randomizing the point in time when the 10 min recording happens within each hour to not lose some birds or always record the same bird at the same time (respective to sunrise time). Is there a way to achieve that currently? Thank you :)

Hello, I have a question about a high rhythmic pitch present in all my sound files. I bought the Hydromoth for two months and recently made my first two recordings in different locations. The rhythmic pitch appears identical in both recordings, regardless of location. Could you help me understand what might be causing this and how I can resolve it? I configured the Hydromoth before recording. Thanks for helping me out!