Flir E4 Thermal imaging camera teardown

[Isaac-1]

janekivi, I love the screen photo with that last message

[mamalala]

janekivi,

although i dont have a FLIR, i must say: congratulations! You are doing great work, and i'm sure that many people appreciate it.

Greetings,

Chris

[janekivi]

Is there something going on with the PM system or you don't answer to them?
I already sent dozen of them but all I see is silence. Sometimes 1 o2 I got.

Edit: I was 100% sure, first answer is "what we are missing here... "
: ))))))))))) But I missing feedback and other PM answers here.
I had wish to save a little attachment here with next message today but
have no test results yet.

[FredB]

Wow Janekivi, you did it. 
Congratulations! My respect for your achievements.
I like the photo with the new menu.
It's much better as the beginning.

I don't know if the PM works....
You have to give your personal emailadress to the forum, I think.

[Bud]

Is there something going on with the PM system

Just sent you a test PM message, see if you received it.

[FredB]

Is there something going on with the PM system or you don't answer to them?
I already sent dozen of them but all I see is silence. Sometimes 1 o2 I got.

Edit: I was 100% sure, first answer is "what we are missing here... "
: ))))))))))) But I missing feedback and other PM answers here.
I had wish to save a little attachment here with next message today but
have no test results yet.

Just send you a PM too. It must work, I hope.

[yf025]

Is there something going on with the PM system or you don't answer to them?
I already sent dozen of them but all I see is silence. Sometimes 1 o2 I got.

Edit: I was 100% sure, first answer is "what we are missing here... "
: ))))))))))) But I missing feedback and other PM answers here.
I had wish to save a little attachment here with next message today but
have no test results yet.

waiting for your amazing guide?

[kuna]

How to make a complete firmware backup of a factory E4 1.22 or 2.3.0? A backup which can be used for recovery if something goes wrong?

[Bud]

See my post #5894

EDIT: Using this method you can back up files that otherwise you cannot if you had used ftp *after* you boot the camera up. However it is still not a 100% complete backup, some exe files from Windows folder still not accessible, but since we do not change them then it should not matter.

[janekivi]

I sent test packages away many days ago and so far I have exactly 0 response.
With someone we changed 2-3 letters and when I waiting feedback, there is silence.
May be I can only change my own conf.cfc...

[Isaac-1]

I just saw your PM that was sent yesterday a few hours ago, and replied then (this forum does not have the most visible of PM notices, compared to some other forums I use).  I still need to post a longer PM reply, but I was on my way out of the house to do some last minute Christmas shopping when I saw it, and now have to leave again to deal with a minor plumbing problem at my elderly mother's house about 15 miles away.  If I don't get back on here tonight, let me wish everyone on the forum a merry Christmas, the next 4-5 days will be very busy here between home and work stuff.  I have not seen a test package file, but if you want to send it to me I would be glad to try to apply it when I get a little free time (perhaps Saturday)

[janekivi]

No problem, as I said there is other important things too.
But I sent many of them and people needed zoom here badly and then - silence. All gone.
I waited many days but I promised something today and in my country this day is ticking to the end...

Do not misunderstand. I don't want anything. I like to you have what you want.

[FredB]

Ok Janekivi,
It works, thank you very much.
I first did hack my original config.cfg , so I lost high resolution. My fault. That's wrong from me.

Then I did the hack on the highresolution config.cfg out of the camera and it works. 
You did a good job.
Did you all the work the same way as this? With Python?

[janekivi]

Please please please have all some copies of all your files somewhere for that time when
something goes wrong. We cant make all of them when needed. And after that feel free
to edit menu contents where you want. But this I can say, that clear thermal screen is
cool feature. It's very good with those alarm color palettes too. : )
But other menu needs little fixes somewhere. I have next challenge here...

Edit: with zoom you have too nothing practical to do without clear thermal screen.
Switch color to white hot and start observe in "drone" mode.

[janekivi]

Did you all the work the same way as this? With Python?

I think you like to know how I did this. Python I see first time too. I done this with notepad.exe
and calc.exe in programmer mode and changing Hex and Dec mode. I took one conf.cfg file
from this thread and changed its contents to match with real data from camera what I saw
with [rls] command. Then I tested it in camera by changing numbers in here and there.
This is how I found patterns in places. Camera decoded it for me, I used restartapp.
And so on... who care... what we are missing and what next?

[Bud]

That Christmas present from janekivi - thank you

[janekivi]

What you may do with zoom I wrote in last messages. But I read always manuals afterwards.
If you can get \FlashFS\system\appcore.d\config.d\conf.cfc file from camera, you are qualified
to hack. Backup this too somewhere and copy it to python27 directory with this zip contents.
I made here readme too and afterwards feel free to edit presets and other stuff if you have
backup of course. My versions is in zip file and some of originals you find in 2.3.0 firmware fif.

Almost forgot: I have E4 2.3.0 1.2 from factory. Got it... date is in my first message. And
with this and for this I made all stuff. Got here one only, that's why I need you for testing.

Merry Christmas

[FredB]

Did you all the work the same way as this? With Python?

I think you like to know how I did this. Python I see first time too. I done this with notepad.exe
and calc.exe in programmer mode and changing Hex and Dec mode. I took one conf.cfg file
from this thread and changed its contents to match with real data from camera what I saw
with [rls] command. Then I tested it in camera by changing numbers in here and there.
This is how I found patterns in places. Camera decoded it for me, I used restartapp.
And so on... who care... what we are missing and what next?

Testing is good for me. I will do it with my camera. It is the same E4 2.3.0 1.2 from factory you have.
I would like the box with hot and cold spots in it, but I think this is not the most easy one?
In white hot the zoom looks like "drone" indeed. 
Merry Christmas

@Janekivi. I see you added scale-scale-manual too in *.xml file. Does it work in the menu or do we still have to toggle the spotmenu?

[janekivi]

Manual was there from factory actually. May be someone can help with xml and rcc
and we get this working in other way than in readme.txt

[Emoticon]

Installed the hack according to the instructions. Works perfectly on the first shot on 2.3.0 1.2L. Thanks!

[FredB]

Manual was there from factory actually. May be someone can help with xml and rcc
and we get this working in other way than in readme.txt

On the internet is a video from someone who is showing his hacked E4 menu. And in scale-menu there are 4 choices in stead of 3.
Auto, lock, manual .......and unlock. I only didn't find the *.xml file that contents the unlock-sentence.
Maybe this unlock-choice have to do with the toggling of manual setting?

[Bud]

Unlock is probably redundant. The camera would unlock anyway when Auto or Manual are selected.

[Bud]

Manual was there from factory actually. May be someone can help with xml and rcc
and we get this working in other way than in readme.txt

Yes Manual option was in the toolbar-config.xml but not displayed/not working. I think a proper facet.rcc file may be needed. There was stuff posted before to unpack and repack rcc file but it was Linux code that needed compilation, and that is a foreign language to me.

I figure you can put whatever you want in toolbar-config.xml, but if there is no support for it in facet.rcc it will not work and/or may even not be displayed in the menu, as it is the case with Manual scale that comes in factory 2.3.0 toolbar-config.xml file.

[yf025]

What you may do with zoom I wrote in last messages. But I read always manuals afterwards.
If you can get \FlashFS\system\appcore.d\config.d\conf.cfc file from camera, you are qualified
to hack. Backup this too somewhere and copy it to python27 directory with this zip contents.
I made here readme too and afterwards feel free to edit presets and other stuff if you have
backup of course. My versions is in zip file and some of originals you find in 2.3.0 firmware fif.

Almost forgot: I have E4 2.3.0 1.2 from factory. Got it... date is in my first message. And
with this and for this I made all stuff. Got here one only, that's why I need you for testing.

Merry Christmas

janekivi,unfortunately to say, there is no zoom icon for me but the more color mode. I'm wondering why?

[Emoticon]

What you may do with zoom I wrote in last messages. But I read always manuals afterwards.
If you can get \FlashFS\system\appcore.d\config.d\conf.cfc file from camera, you are qualified
to hack. Backup this too somewhere and copy it to python27 directory with this zip contents.
I made here readme too and afterwards feel free to edit presets and other stuff if you have
backup of course. My versions is in zip file and some of originals you find in 2.3.0 firmware fif.

Almost forgot: I have E4 2.3.0 1.2 from factory. Got it... date is in my first message. And
with this and for this I made all stuff. Got here one only, that's why I need you for testing.

Merry Christmas

janekivi,unfortunately to say, there is no zoom icon for me but the more color mode. I'm wondering why?

Did you create the new conf file using python from the other files he supplied like the instructions say and then use the new one that was created to overwrite the existing one on the camera?