With slight modifications of the 2.3 hack, I was able to create 2.11 hack.
congrats, you made this procedures persistent. This is a very good achievement for those who only want to install hires and simplest menuhack on their new camera.
- Has anyone taken the core out of an E4 and used it in other "hosts"? I know the Leptons can be connected to other boards
- Is it possible to cool the sensor and get better performance?
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- I know a few have messed with other lenses. Is there a go-to Germanium lens to use? I read that Germanium lenses are better
- Has anyone hacked the battery? I'm guessing it's just an 18650 in a plastic case. Not something I'm going to pay $50 for!
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Many thanks! I would love to see some research into adapting the sensor to another "host," the WinCE environment just seems so limited.
The sensor's output is quite raw compared to what you get from a Lepton - be prepared to do a ton of lens, pixel, gain, and image corrections to it before your going to get anything remotely useful/visible. There is an entire FPGA in the Ex line dedicated to "preparing" the sensors output before WinCE gets the feed. Lepton's have that processing power already embedded in the package - witch is why they are able to be bolted on/in to everything + kitchen sink. Also reading back though this thread - the FPS limit may be burnt into the sensor itself - the output is 60Hz but is the same frames are being sent many times cutting the effective rate for ITAR compliance. (I would love this to be proved otherwise!)
Hey there, I just got The E4 today with Firmware 2.11.0
Wanted to do the hack and put the Camera in RNDIS Mode.
When I used "ipconfig" to get The IP Adress it showed up that The device isn´t connected.
Also filezilla doesn´t get a connection.
Flirinstallnet didn´t show "USB CAMERA DEVICE". There was The IP 192.168.0.2 in this field.
I used Win7 Ultimate 32bit.
Anyone an idea where my mistake is?
Another focusing tool for Flir E4. Matches perfectly, easy to make (2 minutes), safe for the camera due to softness of the material.
Instruction:
1) Take a plastic bottle caps with diameter of sealing part 17mm
2) Heat up the bottle caps top part (see photo) to soften the light.
3) Insert immediately to the E4 cameras lens opening to make initial form.
4) Heat 1/3 of the tools working side to soften the light and insert the tool again (matching previous angular position).
5) Repeat 3 - 4 times to form full shape.
6) Enjoy
Also, does no one know what is missing from the 2.11 hack vs the old full ones ?
Question!
I have successfully reshacked my 2.11.0 device using the 2lps method. I do not believe the "menu hack" is applied yet although I did get some extra functionality after the res hack in the menu system. Am I able to zoom at all with this E4? Does anyone have a 2.11.0 menu hack applied after doing the 2lps res hack and get zoom?
Enhanced E4 menu functions
Image Mode:
Thermal MSX
Thermal
PiP Large
PiP Small
Digital Camera (Visual)
Measurement:
No measurements
Centre Spot
Auto hot spot
Auto cold spot
Center+Hot+Cold
Delta hot spot-Spot
Delta hot spot-Temp
Colour:
Iron
Raindow
Gray
Blue below 'x' temp
Red above 'x' temp
Rainbow High Contrast
White=hot
Black=hot
Arctic
Lava
Detect Condensation
Detect Insulation deficiencies
Interval
Temperature Scale:
Auto
Lock
Manual (set upper temp, lower temp or shift both + or -)
Unlock
Zoom (electronic):
1x - 320x240 pixels
2x - 160x120 pixels upscaled to 320x240
4x - 80x60 pixels upscaled to 320x240
8x - 40x30 pixels upscaled to 320x240
I am very curious to know if the menu hack even works on a 2.11.0 reshacked device. Anybody able to use zoom functions on a 2.11.0? I don't want to apply the hack if no one has been able to apply it on this version. Dont want a brick either. Loving the res hack however.
@2lps and the guys,
congrats, you made this procedures persistent. This is a very good achievement for those who only want to install hires and simplest menuhack on their new camera. Which means, for the majority of us. Now the majority can install the hacks on the 2.11 firmware.
I have checked the new hacks and they really work. No ring of crap. No calibration issues. Awesome.
Drawbacks if any? Yes, unfortunately but quite expected.
Any advanced functions beyond the standard hacks require careful revisions now before being used on the 2.11 camera. Some of them I discovered to cease working, some malfunction. Some survived.
With this said, I would NOT recommend to those who don't experience any calibration issues like Ring-Of-Crap etc., and have their cameras running smoothly on 2.3.0 downgraded from the above version numbers, and using or plan to use the advanced features mentioned elsewhere,
to back-upgrade the core files to the 2.11 with this new hacks.
..... It seems the only thing it added was 3 point measurement, a few more color choices, a splash screen that says "special edition", and thats about it. I was really looking forward to get zoom to work. Any status on zoom?
Update: My model is a 1.2L with 2.11.0 from the factory model as of Jan of 2016. Did the 2.11.0 menu hack after I had already done the res hack. It seems the only thing it added was 3 point measurement, a few more color choices, a splash screen that says "special edition", and thats about it. I was really looking forward to get zoom to work. Any status on zoom?
Go to command line interface (Windows key + R, cmd) and type:
cd \FLIRmenuhack
python menu_conf_e4.py
This will rename the original conf.cfc file you just downloaded from the camera to conf_reso_only.cfc and generate a new conf.cfc in C:\FLIRmenuhack.
Using Filezilla again, replace the conf.cfc found in /FlashFS/System/appcore.d/config.d/ with the one you just generated.
Before you made any updates, did you make a backup of all your original files? DO you still have the common.dll and conf.cfc files? Perhaps try getting a hold of a windows 32bit machine and replicated the firmware update process.
Thanks for all the help, I will report my camera now boots up and is running again just fine. The way it got fixed was to log in anonymously and I had direct access again to the file system, I loaded my saved stock files and it was running again! Then I added the beta 3 file again and a restart and have everything but no zoom? Unless I just can not figure out how the zoom works. Do you just use the center side buttons or is zoom a menu item? Again thanks for all the answers. To help anyone who ever thinks they bricked the camera first try telnet to 192.168.0.2 to see if the camera is in fact alive, if you can connect then even though there is no GUI interface push the off button and if the telnet connection is interrupted that shows the camera buttons work you just can't see anything. Then use your ftp program to connect but do not enter any login information, this should allow you to make whatever repairs you need. In my case i just had only touched the FlashBFS folder so that is the only one I replaced.
Hi everyone, possibly not the right place to post this, but desperate times need desperate measures.
Is there a way to install the firmware with out flir tools? My firmware update went wrong (doing it from a MAC) and the camera starts up, shows the flir logo and then dissolves to black, nothing else goes on.
I can connect to it with filezila (after the temporary RDNIS is runned from flirinstallnet) but don't know where to go from there. I don't have a local flir support center to take it for repair, and apparently it's illegal to take thermographic cameras from USA, so I don't know how to send it over.
Sorry for this post.