I give up trying to hack this thing! can anyone please help me or better still, do this for me? I have money waiting! e4 running 2.3.0
I read the instructions, don't really understand what half of them mean and im getting myself really worked up over this. please can someone help me.
I give up trying to hack this thing! can anyone please help me or better still, do this for me? I have money waiting! e4 running 2.3.0
I read the instructions, don't really understand what half of them mean and im getting myself really worked up over this. please can someone help me.
Where are you getting stuck?
im am totally a noob. I have no idea what any of the instructions mean, click this? do that? copy this? run that? and then all the different files to find and unzip? I mean geez lol, I don't even know what unzip means! I have no hope of doing this alone. no hope at all. in answer to your question, I got flir tools installed and that's my limit with how to do anything else. sorry for been so dim in this but I really have not a clue what to do.
Hi, the whole day I tried to upgrade my E4 to resolution E8...now I am becoming crazy...
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Thanks i.a. reifill
Hey reifill,
sometimes just scanning through a few of the previous pages of a bulletin board provides valuable information
You may want to check my contribution here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/flir-e4-thermal-imaging-camera-teardown/msg563620/#msg563620
I would say as long as your camera is a 1.0 or 1.1 hardware, you can hack it using the "old" method, i.e. like it's described in the links published on the first page of this thread for the original 1.19.8 firmware. The menu hack wouldn't work, though. But there's a good chance that you can "downgrade" your camera back to 1.19.8
First thing to do is to download Marphy's TIConfig tool: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/flir-e4-thermal-imaging-camera-teardown/msg421535/#msg421535 and check if the cfg files are encrypted or not. If they are readable clear-text, the standard hack for 1.19.8 firmware will work. If you'ld post a list of your camera's configuration, I can tell you if my "downgrade package" will work for you.
But from all I've learned with my cam, an updated 1.19 is still closer to the old configuration than to a factory native 2.3.
Cheers,
Thomas
If you need manual temp scale it is possible that way:
download this - 2.3.0_Menu_4.zip
and add in - preset_centerspot.rsc
line - .ui.userSettings.scaleInteractive bool true
after or before - .ui.userSettings.hideGraphics bool false
then you can set scale to "lock" and after changing "measurement" from "no" to "center spot"
up down left right moving temperatures
Yes you can unlock the full resolution on E4's with 2.3.0. I am re posting this with a few edits to the original:
(originally posted by compet17)
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS for Flir E4 (Firmware 2.3.0) for beginners (How I did it... and it worked)
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(If somebody finds an error in this procedure, please tell me immediately and I will correct it)
- Get FlirTools from Flir website (free download) PC version recommended (Note: V5 does not work on Win XP...)
- Install FlirTools on your PC
- Get the files "Set_RNDIS_temporary.fif" and "Set_RNDIS_permanent.fif" from this forum (zipped downloads somewhere in this thread)
- If you want to use the "permanent" file, you also need "remove_RNDIS_Permanent.fif"
(Temporary.fif sets the USB of your cam to RNDIS mode UNTIL A REBOOT. Permanent does the same but it stays in RNDIS until YOU RUN
REMOVE.fif)
- Get E4 hack "v04.zip" for Version 2.3.0
- I assume that the installation of FlirTools does also install the camera driver. If not install it manually. Links are found in this thread
- Get PYTHON version 2.x (not version 3.x!) from the Python website and install it. This is needed to run the hack script. It's a programming language.
- Connect your E4 via USB to your PC and turn it on
- Go to "Programs(x86)/Flir systems/Flir Tools/bin and execute FLIRInstallNet.exe (this is part of the FlirTools software installed in step 2)
- Select the Set_RNDIS_xxxxxxx.fif (permanent or temporary) and click RUN FIF button.
(A timeout error is normal after the command has succeeded because USB is now set to RNDIS mode)
(On mine I had to disconnect and hard reboot for the change to show up.... which meant I had to use the permanent file. I had to use a win 8 PC. After the Hard reboot I moved to a win XP PC)
- Wait a moment and open a CMD window, then enter IPCONFIG
- An additional network connection should be listed with IP Address 192.168.0.1 and gateway 192.168.0.2
- Enter "FTP", then "open 192.168.0.2" and a connection to your cam should be established
- Login with user "flir" and password "3vlig"
- Issue a "dir" command and the files and directories of your cam are listed.
- If all that works, type "quit" to exit and close ftp connection.
- copy the hack files from the v04.zip into the PYTHON folder.
- open CMD, use the command cd and go into python folder and enter "python apply.py apply 192.168.0.2"
- it will read two files from your cam and stores them in a backup folder, then it will do some magic with the files.
- you will find newly created conf.cfc and common_dll.dll in that folder and upload them back to the camera.
- In case you get an error 500 at the upload, you have to upload the files manually by FTP:
*** Only in case of error 500 ***
- Open CMD and FTP again and connect to your camera as before
- go to the indicated folders (cd /foldername/foldername/foldername)
- check the folder with "pwd" to make sure you're in the right one
- Use the lcd command to change to your local directory where the conf and common files are.
- put the files to the correct folders (put filename)
MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE RIGHT FILES INTO THE RIGHT FOLDER!!!
***------***
- Reboot your cam by removing/inserting the battery
- Be happy!!!
- It is possible that the measuring spot is off center after reboot. Turn the spot off/on in the setup menu of the cam and it should be centered.
I had a few issues with this process applying it to an E4 with 1.2L which had been upgraded to 2.3.13, but I was able to get things to work
1, The current release of flirtools did not install the windows RNDIS driver on my windows 7 computer, after a bit of digging I was able to download a copy of the RNDIS driver dated 2013 from the Flir support site.
2, I was able to set RNDIS using the hidden USB menu, and did not have to use "Set_RNDIS_temporary.fif" or "Set_RNDIS_permanent.fif" I suspect this is due to the 1.2L original firmware (I bought this E4 used, certification date was in april 2014)
If you need manual temp scale it is possible that way:
download this - 2.3.0_Menu_4.zip
and add in - preset_centerspot.rsc
line - .ui.userSettings.scaleInteractive bool true
after or before - .ui.userSettings.hideGraphics bool false
then you can set scale to "lock" and after changing "measurement" from "no" to "center spot"
up down left right moving temperatures
2.3.0 Menu hack:
if you download 2.3.0_Menu_4.zip
and install it with FLIRInstallNet to camera, then you have new preset_centerspot.rsc
add there line - .ui.userSettings.scaleInteractive bool true
after or before - .ui.userSettings.hideGraphics bool false
then you can set scale to "lock" and after changing "measurement" from "no" to "center spot"
up down left right moving temperatures
Then order one from Zoro and pray you get lucky and get a 1.22 like I did. Then the hack is very simple. Also zoro has 25% off right now so you get it for $750.....
I chickened out and didn't order one last week. Seeing that others are still getting the older version, I'm feeling some regret. The 25% off code that was posted here was only good last Thursday and Friday (11/12 Dec). Is there some other 25% off deal that's still available?
thanks for replys all. I guess I will just have to either live with a stock e4 and missout on what you guys have or get someone to do this hack for me as you suggested seen as I have no clue what to do or where to start. Anyone from near Barnsley in the UK who can do this hack for me? E4 running 2.3.0. cash waiting.
2.3.0_Menu_4.zip
and install it with FLIRInstallNet to camera, then you have new preset_centerspot.rscSomething goes wrong. I tried many times. At the end I calculated right CRC32 number, but this option is still inaccessible...
file looks like:
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.ui.userSettings.scaleInteractive bool true
.ui.userSettings.hideGraphics bool false
Ok... manual scale...
First thing - if you have resolution hack - we don't need any CRC anywhere, hacker wrote about his work
(all using my menu and there all files without it)
If rsc file is right as you have, process is this:
set [SCALE] to [LOCK] [OK]
set [MEASUREMENT] to [NO MEASUREMENTS] [OK]
set [MEASUREMENTS] to [CENTER SPOT] [OK]
and now scale temperature numbers is in gray boxes and they are adjustable with center button up down right left
after playing change [SCALE] to [AUTO] [OK]