diff --git a/birdnet-pi/rootfs/helpers/birdnet_to_mqtt.py b/birdnet-pi/rootfs/helpers/birdnet_to_mqtt.py
index 2ac5699fe..6b1529fa3 100644
--- a/birdnet-pi/rootfs/helpers/birdnet_to_mqtt.py
+++ b/birdnet-pi/rootfs/helpers/birdnet_to_mqtt.py
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ def file_row_generator(s):
             continue
         yield line
 
-# flag to select whether to process all detections, if False, only the records above the set threshold will be processed
-
-process_all = False
-
 # mqtt server
 mqtt_server = "%%mqtt_server%%" # server for mqtt
 mqtt_user = "%%mqtt_user%%"  # Replace with your MQTT username
@@ -72,49 +68,6 @@ mqttc.loop_start()
 for row in file_row_generator(syslog):
     # if line in log is from 'birdnet_analysis.sh' routine, then operate on it
 
-    # if selected the process the line return for every detection, even below threshold, this generates a lot more records to MQTT
-    if process_all and re_all_found.search(row) :
-
-        # get time stamp of the log entry
-        timestamp = str(datetime.datetime.timestamp(dateparser.parse(re.search(re_log_timestamp, row).group(0))) + ts_noise)
-
-        ts_noise = ts_noise + 0.1
-        if ts_noise > 0.9 :
-            ts_noise = 0.0
-
-        # extract the scientific name, common name and confidence level from the log entry
-        res = re.search(re_found_bird, row).group(1).split(',', 1)
-
-        # messy code to deal with single and/or double quotes around scientific name and common name
-        # while keeping a single quote in string of common name if that is part of bird name
-        if '"' in res[0] :
-            res[0] = res[0].replace('"', '')
-        else :
-            res[0] = res[0].replace("'", "")
-
-        # scientific name of bird is found prior to the underscore character
-        # common name of bird is after underscore string
-        # remainder of string is the confidence level
-        sci_name = res[0].split('_', 1)[0]
-        com_name = res[0].split('_', 1)[1]
-        confid = res[1].replace(' ', '')
-
-        # build python structure of fields that we will then turn into a json string
-        bird = {}
-        bird['ts'] = timestamp
-        bird['sciname'] = sci_name
-        bird['comname'] = com_name
-        bird['confidence'] = confid
-        # build a url from scientific name of bird that can be used to lookup info about bird
-        bird['url'] = bird_lookup_url_base + sci_name.replace(' ', '_')
-
-        # convert to json string we can sent to mqtt
-        json_bird = json.dumps(bird)
-
-        print(json_bird)
-
-        mqttc.publish(mqtt_topic_all_birds, json_bird, 1)
-
     # bird found above confidence level found, process it
     if re_high_found.search(row) :