- Device Discovery and Connection: Effortlessly discover and connect to the smart bird feeder, enabling instant access to feeding schedules, bird activity data, and environmental conditions once connected.
- Real-Time Data Synchronization: Seamlessly synchronize your app with the bird feeder in real time, ensuring accurate tracking of feeding events, bird visits, and environmental changes for effective monitoring.
- Comprehensive Bird Activity Metrics: Access real-time bird activity data, such as visit frequency, feeding time, bird species detection, and bird count, to build applications focused on birdwatching, research, and wildlife conservation.
- Feeding and Environmental Tracking: Monitor and retrieve data on feeder status, food levels, and surrounding environmental factors like temperature and humidity, optimizing feeding schedules and creating a better experience for bird enthusiasts.
Introduction to Hoeipet Smart bird feeder APP SDK
Smart Bird Feeder SDK:
- The SDK is a comprehensive suite of tools, libraries, documentation, and code samples designed to facilitate software development for the smart bird feeder platform.
By providing access to high-definition camera feeds, motion sensors, and environmental data, the SDK enables developers to create custom applications for bird identification, activity tracking, and remote monitoring. - The APP SDK serves as a toolkit for mobile application developers, offering an intuitive interface for leveraging the wireless communication capabilities of the smart bird feeder.
It abstracts the complexities of data transmission and sensor integration, allowing developers to focus on building feature-rich applications that provide real-time notifications, bird species recognition, and feeding schedule management.
Difference between APP SDK and Firmware SDK
The APP SDK (Application Software Development Kit) allows mobile app developers to create features like bird identification and notifications. The firmware SDK helps developers control the bird feeder’s hardware and sensors.
Smart Bird Feeder APP SDK:
- Target Audience: Application developers creating mobile apps or IoT solutions for bird enthusiasts, wildlife monitoring, or nature-related activities, designed to interact with smart bird feeders.
- Purpose: To facilitate the development of applications that communicate with smart bird feeders. These apps typically run on smartphones or tablets and connect to the bird feeder via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
- Functionality: The Smart Bird Feeder SDK provides tools and APIs for discovering the feeder, establishing a connection, and exchanging data. It allows mobile apps to control the feeder remotely, monitor bird visits, adjust feeding schedules, and receive notifications when birds interact with the feeder.
- Components: Includes libraries for integration into mobile apps, comprehensive documentation, sample code, and often a demo application to showcase how the SDK can be effectively used to develop smart bird feeder applications.
Smart Bird Feeder Firmware SDK:
- Target Audience: Firmware developers working on the software that runs directly on the smart bird feeder’s hardware, enabling core device functionality.
- Purpose: To facilitate the development of the firmware that interacts directly with the bird feeder’s hardware, providing the essential software layer for the feeder’s operation, including its feeding mechanism and sensors.
- Functionality: The Smart Bird Feeder Firmware SDK includes tools, libraries, and APIs needed to program the feeder’s chipset. This covers low-level control of hardware components, managing Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity, real-time processing of bird detection data, and triggering feeding actions.
- Components: Typically includes hardware abstraction layers, peripheral drivers (for motors, sensors, etc.), real-time operating system (RTOS) components, middleware for communication (e.g., Wi-Fi/Bluetooth protocols), and comprehensive documentation for developers to optimize and integrate their firmware with the smart bird feeder’s systems.
Smart Bird Feeder SDK VS Firmware SDK
Level of Abstraction: The Smart Bird Feeder SDK operates at a higher level of abstraction, focusing on the interface between external applications (such as mobile apps) and the bird feeder. The Firmware SDK, however, works at a lower level, dealing with the internal workings of the bird feeder’s hardware.
Development Focus: The Smart Bird Feeder SDK is aimed at building software that runs on external devices (like smartphones or tablets) to communicate with and control the bird feeder. On the other hand, the Firmware SDK is used for developing the software that runs directly on the bird feeder itself, managing hardware functions such as feeding mechanisms, bird detection, and connectivity.
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Role: In the Smart Bird Feeder SDK, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi libraries manage wireless communication from the perspective of an external device, allowing it to interact with the bird feeder. In the Firmware SDK, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi components are responsible for managing the bird feeder’s role in communication, ensuring that it functions as a peripheral device connecting with the app or central devices.
Execution Environment: Software developed with the Smart Bird Feeder SDK runs on external devices’ operating systems (e.g., iOS, Android). In contrast, software developed with the Firmware SDK runs directly on the bird feeder’s hardware, controlling real-time tasks like bird detection, feeding actions, and sensor management.
In essence, the Smart Bird Feeder SDK is used for creating applications that communicate with the bird feeder from external devices, while the Firmware SDK is focused on developing the internal software that controls and manages the bird feeder’s hardware.
At Hoeipet Smart Bird Feeder, we offer both SDKs, but this page is dedicated to the Smart Bird Feeder SDK.
