birdbuddy
Query your Bird Buddy smart bird feeder - check status, battery, food level, and see recent bird visitors with species identification.
Why use this skill?
Connect your Bird Buddy feeder to OpenClaw. Monitor battery, food levels, and view wildlife sightings with automated species identification and photo retrieval.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/mogglemoss/birdbuddyWhat This Skill Does
The Bird Buddy skill is a specialized interface designed for owners of the Bird Buddy smart bird feeder. It provides a bridge between your physical smart hardware and the OpenClaw AI agent, allowing you to query your feeder's technical health and monitor wildlife activity through natural language. By utilizing the pybirdbuddy library, the skill can pull real-time data regarding the feeder's battery percentage, food fill level, and connectivity status. More importantly, it acts as a digital ornithologist, fetching recent postcard data, identifying bird species, and providing direct links to the high-quality photos captured by your device. Whether you are curious about the technical maintenance of your feeder or eager to catch up on the latest visitors to your backyard, this skill automates the data retrieval process, making your Bird Buddy experience seamless and integrated into your daily AI workflow.
Installation
To begin, ensure you have the pybirdbuddy Python library installed in your environment by running pip install pybirdbuddy. Once installed, you need to configure your authentication credentials. The skill requires your Bird Buddy account email and password, which must be set as environment variables: BIRDBUDDY_EMAIL and BIRDBUDDY_PASSWORD. Please note that Google SSO login is not supported by this integration. After setting your variables, install the skill via the command line using: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/mogglemoss/birdbuddy. Ensure the skill directory is correctly referenced when invoking commands.
Use Cases
- Proactive Maintenance: Query your feeder status every morning to ensure you have enough battery and food before a busy day.
- Wildlife Observation: Automatically pull the latest bird sightings when you have a spare moment to admire the species that visited your feeder.
- Digital Scrapbooking: Identify specific recent bird sightings to save or share photos of rare visitors captured by the feeder.
Example Prompts
- "Hey OpenClaw, check if my bird feeder has enough power and birdseed for today."
- "What kind of birds have been visiting my yard in the last 12 hours?"
- "Find the most recent photo of a bird at my feeder and show me the details."
Tips & Limitations
- Authentication: Only standard email/password logins work; users with Google-linked accounts must set a password via the official Bird Buddy app settings.
- Refresh Frequency: The data retrieved is only as current as the last sync with the Bird Buddy cloud. If the feeder is offline, the status will report the last known state.
- Efficiency: When querying recent sightings, use the limit parameter to reduce data transfer times if your feeder is highly active.
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Find the right skillPaste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.
{
"plugins": {
"official-mogglemoss-birdbuddy": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: network-access, external-api