Hi randfee, great post and have more questions that I could answer, lol.
Will just try to answer a few things in no preferred order.
I am unaware of connectivity stability issues , for me it either worked or it did not. I always advocate for WinXP when people try to perform the upgrade and that usually works on Virtual Machine setup as well as on a computer host OS. Mu E4 works for me personally on Win 7 trouble-free, so the thing here appears to be user-specific environment, and there seem to be no good answer as it depends on how Flir drivers behave in the user-specific environment. You know, that antivirus stuff and such. This has nothing to do with the hack and is the baseline how would your Flir camera work if everything was original.
there was no prior design_ui.xml in FlashBFS\system\ui.d\ but only these files
design_ui_z3.xml
facet_Z3.rcc
design_ui_z3ets.xml
toolbar-config_z3.xml
toolbar-config_z3ets.xml
That is how it is supposed to be. Users MUST follow the procedure in Readme.txt and do not try to overthink it. Much was left behind the scene why in terms of file names. It was proven by some smart ass people who thought they were smarter than the hack publishers and they ended up in hot water, LoL. Just follow the guide, we did not have time OR desire to explain things bit by bit.
what's the purpose of the item: image mode > object distance?
This is a correction factor into the object temperature formula. It has no to do with the hack. You have it in the original camera firmware. If you carefully test same object at a given distance playing with this parameter, you will see the resulting temperature measurement changing. Perhaps more detectable with objects located at bigger distances from the camera.
my E4 always records both images, thermal + visible (camera) as two files. Is there are way to deactivate the VIS images.
This is an item in the camera setup screen, you can set it to save as separate files or in a same file, check the camera Settings, I can't recal lthe name for this parameter, you should be able to find it there.
I don't understand the screening mode and the sports mode. As for the latter, Bud mentioned that it had to be activated, might not serve a purpose. The screening mode is for measuring people? It talks about a P button, but I thought that button was only on the Exx series?
P is the "Programmable" button. There is no dedicated button in the hacked E4 so I recall the "Back" button was programmed to act as the "Programmable" button.
Screening mode is to screen objects' temperature against a averaged baseline. When screening mode is activated, there are prompts to press the programmable button a few times while pointing to the reference object to establish the baseline, then the objects you point the camera to will be evaluated against the reference baseline. If to speak about screening people's faces temperature for example, you would establish the reference by taking a few samples of healthy people's faces, then start checking other people's faces temperature. This is a rough explanation but I did gave a reference to a FLIR document where they provide instructions how to use Screening mode. You see, this is one of those things that the users wishing to perform the hack have to do their homework. So please allow me to send you back to my post where I gave that reference to FLIR documentation if you want to learn how to use screening mode.
I kept wondering why you guys (DaveWB, Bud) don't consolidate it a little more in the first post or something..
People must be blind because there are links in the original post. Just follow the links in the original Dave's post. This is not my thread so I can't edit it but I think there are proper links in the initial Dave's post and I 've tested them a few times when I got comments like that. I am not sure why we are getting these comments, other than that people must have become so lazy these days that they want everything be chewed to them like to grade 1 students. As you yourself eluded to, it has been quite a few years since the work was done, and the environment and the atmosphere existing at the time have to be understood . Back then E4 was a hot cake, everyone was doing hacks and everyone knew how to switch RNDIS on, FTP to the camera and do things. My posts were written in that atmosphere and therefore omitted all that low level stuff. It was expected from the user that they know how to do it. I focused on providing the Core instructions and replacement files. Now several years later some newbies want to be spoon fed, how to get connectivity to the camera, how to configure the IP, this or that, while being yet miles away from starting the actual upgrade procedure. That was not the spirit that existed here on EEVBlog when my posts were written. Quite a few people who dedicated themselves to learning and reading the entire thread - they all succeeded and successfully upgraded.
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