The E380 needs all three of its buttons to be pressed at the same time but your cameras do not have three buttons so you may need to work out how your versions access the menu or even add the missing third button ?
Fraser
That's interesting. The XRHR has the Power and Zoom functionality combined into 1 button. Hot spot tracker still has its own button.
I managed to get the spot temperature overlay to glitch out by pressing the hot spot tracker button after the screen started displaying "RELEASE TO TURN OFF" (see attached).
This could be undone by restarting the camera.
Other than that, assuming the configuration menu existed on this model, I have tried the following and was unable to get to it:
_Hold down both Power and Tracker buttons during start-up.
_Hold down Power, rapidly tap Tracker during start-up.
_Press Power once, rapidly tap Tracker during start-up.
_Press Power once, rapidly tap both Power and Tracker during start-up.
_After start-up, press both Power and Tracker once. Nothing happened, looked like the controller board can only handle 1 button press at a time.
_After start-up, rapidly tap both Power and Tracker in sync. Zoom and hot spot tracking engaged, but not simultaneously, thereby reinforcing the preceding point.
_After start-up, in X1 viewing mode, hold down Tracker button for about 10s then release. Hot spot tracking engaged after releasing button.
_After start-up, in X2 viewing mode, hold down Tracker button for about 10s then release. Same outcome as previous.
_After start-up, in X4 viewing mode, hold down Tracker button for about 10s then release. Same outcome as previous.
_After start-up, in X1 viewing mode, hold down Tracker button for about 30s then release. Same outcome as previous.
_After start-up, in X2 viewing mode, hold down Tracker button for about 30s then release. Same outcome as previous.
_After start-up, in X4 viewing mode, hold down Tracker button for about 30s then release. Same outcome as previous.
_After start-up, press and hold Power button until "TURN OFF ABORTED" is displayed, then quickly press Tracker button. Glitched the overlay.
Things to be tested:
_While camera is off, press and hold Power and/or Tracker button(s), then plug in the power source. I have gut feelings that this one wouldn't be safe to try.
_Hold down Power and/or Tracker button(s) in X1/X2/X4 viewing mode for longer than 30s.
Based on Scott Safety's XRHR available options, in the event that we gained access to the configuration menu, it looked like the options available will be configuring the temperature scale and enable DVR/Transmit functionality minus the necessary hardware. This would be great since I'm guessing some pins of unused connectors will start outputting data.
The black samtec is ABSOLUTELY a parallel video output bus, I've poked it out and it makes sense for the DVR capturing functionality. I'll be running my logic analyzer in capture mode once I finish the breakout cable to cap the startup sequence, will upload it here.
Another project of mine is to make a better FPA downlead cable, the default one is kinda meh and I'd rather it be straight on instead of doglegging slightly.
Very nice discovery (I finally understood that Samtec is the connector, not some sort of chip that does DVR). Please keep us updated.
I think the DVR/Transmit-enabled XRHR and X380 models would have an extra circuit board mating with the Samtec connector and also be on the same stack as the FPGA board and the connector-laden board. This is pretty much the only way to stuff more into the already cramped case. From the SD1000/K1000's manual, any XRHR unit with DVR enabled would be pretty janky to use given that it only has 2 buttons (see attached SD1000 K1000 manual sections 5 and 6). Of note is that data output is handled by some sort of BNC to USB connector, and data transfer is handled by a separate miniUSB port that is only accessible when the battery is removed.
This ISG Thermal Systems 320 K1000 Elite is definitely a DVR-enabled model, but it's definitely pricy. Correction: the port may be there, but it might lack the storage hardware.