Hi,
I am new to this forum and I am also no programmer. Apologies therefore, if I am covering some old ground. At this stage, I am not looking for any technical detail but would like to seek some advice.
I am looking at options for using a hard drive recorder to do autonomous recordings of desert birds at night. Systems would have to be in the field for perhaps a few months, so I need some particular features, mostly to minimise the sheer quantity of data that would need to be analysed. From what I have read, rockbox appears to already have some useful features but I am not sure how difficult it would be to incorporate any others.
I would like to 1. limit recording to particular times of the day; 2. trigger recording on receipt of signal (rather like VOR); 3. limit recordings to fragments of say, 1 minute following the trigger; and 4. begin recording with a buffer of about 3s.
This will also depend to some extent on the MP3 player, which will have to have a line-in for a microphone. I would be extremely grateful if anyone could give me some initial advice about which players would be best (probably an Iriver device) and whether any or all of the above functions exist within Rockbox. If not, then how much effort would it take to develop them?
Kind regards,
Simon.