Enhance a old FLIR ThermaCAM E45

[joe-c]

Hello,
time to talk about the old Thermacam E45 (and similar old Cameras from FLIR).

The camera has default a USB Network connection, but this was only used to simulate a Drive with the Images.
With a Network tool I found the default IP from the Camera...
192.168.66.66
And with Ping scan of this Area I found 2 accessible IPs:
192.168.66.66
192.168.66.65
The Second connection don’t refuse a telnet connection and give a command line access like RS232 connection.
Additional it have a FTP Access, but this don’t support the “LIST” command, therefore it don’t work with Filezilla.

In the last Thermovision is a "new" sub-window called "Camera Commander: FLIR".
with a active Network connection its possible to download the system files.

• goto Tab:Setup and select the option "Old: Thermacam E45 Mode", this is necessary because the Resource tree and the FTP works a bit different.
• goto Tab FTP and enter the name of your Camera in the field "CameraName"
• klick on "full dump" and wait until all data from the camera was downloaded
• Open the folder from the camera with "open Folder"
• ...do your changes...change logo, add color palette files, and so on...
• klick on the folder in the tree you want to upload a file and select "upload" from mouse context menu (right click)

in the system/ are some *.reg files, they need to be open with notepad++ or other text editor.
i will attach my firmware stuff. i just removed a "system/matrix.elf" file with 4MB, i beleve the other files are more interesting.

[Fraser]

Excellent work Joe-C

I love seeing how you smart software guys burrow into operating systems and firmware

This is the sort of experimentation I want to do on my old FLIR PM series cameras. I shall have to find the time to play with their file systems.

Fraser