Running a second instance on more powerful device than Pi 02W for Species Stats - which file(s) are needed?

[infinitejones]

I've got BirdNET-Pi up and running on a Raspberry Pi 02W and it's working like a dream. Only problem is that, as warned in the documentation, Species Stats performance is hit and miss at best - and on a Pi 02W that's understandable.

So I'm experimenting with running a second instance in a VM on a much more powerful server machine, with recording and analysis disabled, with Pi 02W's birdnet folder mounted and/or symlinked just for the purposes of running Species Stats on the more powerful machine. (I can't justify buying a new Pi5 right now so I'm working with the machines I've got "on the shelf", so to speak!)

I've realised I can't just mount the whole birdnet folder from the Pi because its python env will have ARM64-specific python packages installed, and the more powerful server is Intel.

So my next thought is to mount the whole folder from the Pi "somewhere else" on the powerful server, and then symlink just the relevant file(s) for Species Stats into the birdnet folder.

Can anyone point me to the file(s)/folder(s) I'd need to symlink in order to get just Species Stats working?

Acknowledging that even this might not work, but hey, it's fun to experiment... ;)

[infinitejones]

Turns out it's just scripts/birds.db

I couldn't mount and symlink it because it's locked by the Pi (of course) so I just set up a script that rsyncs it from the Pi to the second instance every hour. Seems to be working well!