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!
Hi Dominic, This isn't something that we've thought of, but the firrmware is open-source and it would be relatively straightforward to change the firmware to do this. If you have some experience of C programming, or you have a colleague who does, we can provide an updated version of the code where the various settings would be hard-coded into the firmware. You would then just have to use the 'Time Setter' app to set the clock before you used the device. This is an easier route than adding additional functionality into the configuration tool.