Hi Patrick, Thank you. Right after I sent this post to you, I stumbled upon this one https://www.openacousticdevices.info/support/device-support/adapting-external-microphone-to-audiomoth/p-1/dl-5eb0257137500d0017459f81-5e6f5705bac5e00017ee0774-1?origin=member_comments_page where Alex confirms that the trigger update and option for external microphone will be available later this year. I guess of course if everything goes well later on in this crazy 2020.

Hi Alex, Thanks that is such good news! It also relates to one of my other posts where I asked about a triggering function, so that's also answered now. Just a quick question, will the external mic be a specific Audiomoth microphone with a specific cable? Or will we have to use other types of microphones (if the Audiomoth only comes with an external mic port)? Also, I need to monitor at heights of 100 - 120m for wind farms, will the hardware be able to support such long microphone cable extensions for me to have the actual Audiomoth device close to the ground? As far as I know the higher frequency calls may suffer a bit at such long extensions. Thank you very much for the help.

Hi, Yes I agree, it would be so awesome to have a form of sound triggering function. I only joined here now so if it's already released and announced, please kindly point me in the right post direction. Thanks so much.

Hi Patrick and Audiomoth team, Have you found an answer to this yet? I have the same question and want to deploy Audiomoth as a passive detector left unattended in the field (all protected etc from the elements of course). Continuous recording per night can work, but results in lots of data filling the SD card, and longer analysis afterwards. I looked at the newest configuration software and it does not seem to have such an option. Although I'm not sure how the "sleep" and "recording duration" options affect it, is it a type of trigger function?