Hi!
So there are tradeoffs between battery capacity and memory card space vs. recording length and recording quality. To have the most suitable settings for different periods of the day, I was wondering whether it would be possible to have different settings (sample rate, gain, sleep duration, recording duration) for each recording period to optimise battery and storage use while collecting information on different sound sources.
What I would want is one recording period for birds in the morning, a second, low frequency one during the day for anthropogenic sounds and a short very high frequency period in the evening for bats.
Is it possible to do that using the configuration app? Or is it something you are planning to implement for the next software release?
Thank you very much for your amazing work!
Other nice addition to the software would be an option to schedule a recording period based on local sunrise and sunset time! Birds are most active on the first few hours after sunrise and a few hours before sunset. To achieve that it requires to update field configuration a few times in the season.
One quite simple way would be to manually specify a few (3-5) sunrise/sunset dates in Configuration app, so the app can calculate when to start (shift) each day’s recording. For example, Apr 01 – local Sunrise 06:51, local Sunset 20:03 and May 01 – Sunrise 05:34, Sunset 21:07. It’s 30 days apart and Sunrise became 1 hour and 17 minutes earlier, but Sunset - 1 hour and 4 minutes later. So every day till May 01 morning recordings will start (shift) 2 minutes and 34 seconds earlier, but each Evening recording will start 2 minutes and 8 seconds later.
‘Morning’ shift could affect all recordings in a period from 3 AM to 3 PM, but ‘Evening’ shift from 3 PM to 3 AM.