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Products => Thermal Imaging => Topic started by: exe on December 23, 2020, 08:15:36 am

Title: flir e4: how useful is wifi?
Post by: exe on December 23, 2020, 08:15:36 am

Good morning/evening!

I want to buy flir e4 with intention to unlock it to full potential. There ware two models on the market: with wifi and without. How useful is wifi feature? I tried to google it, but found only flir marketing information.

My understanding is, with wifi it can work as wireless camera, is that correct? Without wifi I'd need to use a cable if I want to see pictures on my computer.

Title: Re: flir e4: how useful is wifi?
Post by: _Wim_ on December 25, 2020, 08:04:44 am

On my flir E30 (upgraded to E60) I personally do not find it very useful. The wifi does not support modern encryption like AES, and to work reasonably reliable on my network I had to use a fixed IP address and open some ports on the firewall.

This is off course an older camera (2012), so I am not sure this is still the case for a newly bought E4. But for a typical use case of plotting some temperature over time, I do not mind the USB cable, as I typically have the charging cable connected also. I just bough a long USB cable (5m) so I am not restricted by the location of the laptop in my workshop.