Get bird record analysis out of BirdNet-Pi via MQTT to Home Assistant

[deepcoder]

I was trying to use the 'apprise' module to send identification records to Home Assistant via MQTT. However, it seemed to be rather limited and fragile. The bird data is a bit 'messy' as well and was in need of some data cleaning. So I wrote a simple python script that runs as a service at boot. It's a bit hillbilly tech, could use some good python eyes on it. However it has been working fine for a while. Here is the GitHub Gist with the code and setup info:

BirdNET to MQTT publishing for Home Assistant consumption
https://gist.github.com/deepcoder/c309087c456fc733435b47d83f4113ff