About the Practical AudioMoth Guide

The AudioMoth is a low-cost acoustic recorder designed by Open Acoustic Devices for wildlife and conservation applications.

This practical guide is a repository for all of the tips, tricks, and procedures we, the Kitzes Lab, developed in the process of deploying thousands of AudioMoths since March 2018.

Quick start

AudioMoths are simple to set up out of the box. For instance:

• Purchase AudioMoths, microSD cards, and batteries
• Insert batteries and microSD card into AudioMoth
• Download the configuration app to your computer
• Use the app to create a recording schedule for the AudioMoth to record on; this is explained with graphics on the AudioMoth Config App tutorial and in detail in the guide.
• Connect AudioMoth to computer to set the clock and apply the configuration
• Flip switch to "CUSTOM" to start recording on schedule

For full details, tips about deploying AudioMoths in the field, troubleshooting information, and more, continue on to the guide.

Cite this work

This work is released under a CC-BY license. Please cite it if you use it, replacing the <> with the DOI as listed at the top of this document.

Rhinehart, Tessa A. (2021). AudioMoth: a practical 
guide to the open-source ARU. GitHub repository: 
https://github.com/rhine3/audiomoth-guide. DOI: <>