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Products => Thermal Imaging => Topic started by: joe-c on September 02, 2018, 11:08:48 am

Title: Enhance a old FLIR ThermaCAM E45
Post by: joe-c on September 02, 2018, 11:08:48 am

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.

Title: Re: Enhance a old FLIR ThermaCAM E45
Post by: Fraser on September 02, 2018, 11:56:00 am

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

Title: Re: Enhance a old FLIR ThermaCAM E45
Post by: shooshpah on June 06, 2024, 08:12:03 am

Hi All,

I'm wondering if by any chance somebody have firmware update package for this model, that would be awesome.

btw, from calib.reg:
calib.det.gen.Type text "UL02051"

UL02051 - is a a-Si microbolometer developed by ULIS,
from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241282425_Uncooled_detector_development_for_space_application (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241282425_Uncooled_detector_development_for_space_application) :
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p.s. sorry for bad attachment skills