Oh dang! I better hurry up and order mine before you make a video about it and drive up the price 😅

Felt that same urge and ordered one too.

y'all will be pleased with this tiny device !

Video imminent then Clive?

@@mattwuk I'm sure it'll make an appearance.

@@NeungView it's a reference to the overlaid text at the 6.5min mark

@@NeungView nope

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@@yanikkunitsin1466 What are you talking about? Did you even watch the video?

I am interested in getting one too, but they're about $360CAD on Amazon. Where did you buy yours?

@@AureliusR And it's worth it. I bought mine via AliExpress.

@@AureliusR Just a suggestion. If you can buy it from Amazon where it's FULFILLED by Amazon, I'd suggest do that rather than Aliexpress. I've read so many reviews on Aliexpress talking about hos difficult that their support is to deal with, especially for proven FAKE/CLONED garbage. With Amazon, as long as FULFILLED BY AMAZON, it's easy to get any problems resolved. if it's "sold and shipped" by the seller, PERSONALLY, I never buy. The rules are different when something is shipped by the seller as compared to FULFILLED by Amazon. Just a suggestion.

You must be new here.

If you do electronics work, you might wan to consider something that has 2 cams built in. The thermal element and a actual video element so that the video can be superimposed over the thermal image. For electronics, this makes identifying SMD components so much easier.

The P2 pro app

no. the patent is expiring and you can work around the wording. The issue is that if you don't know the distance of the cameras, how can you align the pictures?

@@sarowie How expensive would it be to put a cheap RGB camera alongside the thermal camera? 10 USD? Maybe it's still patent(s?) why it's not done.

@@kwinzman sure, the cheap rgb camera is cheap - now you need to precisely align it, so that both axis look in the same direction. If the two cameras squint even a few degrees of axis, you have a mess on any distance. Then splice the video stream "somehow". You could do an internal USB-Hub, but that is expensive and huge. You could create a jumbo frame with both - now you sync two cameras and need an FPGA or Microcontroller with serious memory just to compose the images. Note that when done right, the IR-Module never actually has a full image - you need to chop the video into packets "eitherway", so why waste memory and at time delay just to...? Yeah, much easier and faster to store the ADC results just in the packet buffer and send the packet on its way when its time. Also note the lack of polish in this product and details like the app. Mike does not mind them, but they are there. Now make that with the overlay technology and it becomes the opposite of helpful as the pictures annoyingly only align when freshly user calibrated (for that specific distance), but the user calibrate button glichtes out regurlaly, so you don`t want to user calibrate... so you switch it off and wonder about the waste of space of an RGB camera, when the smartphone cameras are so much better "eitherway".

thank you

These are already affordable in any professional case. You get your ROI in a month or two, tops! We covered you last thermal camera in one mont just because diagnosing some computers took ten seconds instead of ten minutes or two hours.

Overheating its safe message for matrix Because a matrix cant see high temperature

yes, works fine at longer distances

@@mikeselectricstuff awesome! Wasn't sure if the short focal distance would be a problem

It's just a regular UVC camera so any video player will work. The only thing extra is a few lines of pixels in the bottom of the frame that encode metadata like temperature ranges etc.

I'd have to pick up this one specifically to test but OpenCam and HedgeCam are both really great for supporting wacky/unusual cameras, due to being forks of each other. Specifically, on a Pixel 4 I have laying around, I'm able to access the infrared front-facing face detection camera whenever I wish - not quite as handy as a true thermal camera, let alone one that can be flipped around when needed, but it's still a handy thing!

It is probably a USB 2.0 device, if it is, it will not be long until someone plugs one into a "GreatFET One" and fully reverse engineers everything that the application does and creates an open source application.

Because their job is creating the device and making it functional. It's not worth their time to make the UX wonderful, but you can do that for others if you want.

yes

I've used mine to see power adapters I *thought* were turned off, sitting there drawing power, getting hot, and wasting my money! If it's warm, it's using power.

You can buy a tablet and 3D print a case.

You don't focus it. It's quite a wide lens so they are relying on the hyperfocal distance. Things are in focus from about 30cm to Infinity.

@@AlexanderGee Is it wider than a normal cellphone camera or about the same? Edit: How does it also compare in focus and FOV compared to the seek thermal? Can the Seek Thermal get a closer focus?

The Focus is fixed to "Infinity" I'd say. I mean, I ordered mine with the macro (SMD Diagnostics are a breeze with this thing).

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Or just get a USB-C to micro-usb OTG adapter - like every possible USB adapter you could possibly think of is out there somewhere

I'm still looking for a phone new enough to have OTG ..

@@petevenuti7355 Huh, every phone I've had had OTG going back to some ancient HTC something or other running Android 3 - on a phone with a micro USB port, you need a special OTG cable that shorts the 5th pin to ground which tells the phone to go into USB host mode (otherwise it's a USB device). My last few work phones have come with a USB OTG adapter that plugs into the phone with micro-usb and provides a USB type A female socket on the other side (like a standard USB port you'd find on a computer)

@@gorak9000 got 3 that don't, even tried rooting it and adding the necessary files to support OTG only to find the hardware incapable...

@@gorak9000 You wrote: "you need a special OTG cable that shorts the 5th pin to ground...". Could you be more specific, the 5th pin is the ground (1st red is VCC , 2nd white is D-, 3rd green is D+, 4 NC is ID, 5th black is GND). You probably meant connecting the 4th pin to ground, i.e. to 5th pin.

Affixing with double sided or glueing a magnet on the back may be a handy method of mounting the camera as long as you can source a flexible cable. Interesting that all the boot parameter text is in ENGLISH.

Just serch the eBays for "CO2 Laser Focus Lens PVD ZnSe Focal Lens Dia.18mm 20mm for Laser Engraver Head". Some people 3D print the stand-off tube for this lens. I used a section of metal tubing and B7000 cement. Just tinker with proper focal length, set the distance with tape temporarily then build!

@@skeggjoldgunnr3167 can you upload a video of it done? I need more distance in my lens. How would one achieve that using only one lens. I think you need more of them.

@@knallpistol OH! I'm sorry. I just finally properly read your original question. I am talking about a MACRO lens. For using camera up-close ONLY. Sorry to have wasted your time.

Yeah was that too. it didn't look good

Yeah saw that too I meant to say

no

288p camera can be 50cm away from the bench on a pantograph with all that space available to you, to work with your both hands and even flip and move the board around, solder and rework without spewing the lens and camera with flux and fumes ;)

There the InfiRay does a good job. From the 2nd floor, a car and a walking person can be clearly identified.

@@jensharbers6702 Ah! but can it "see" a skunk hiding under the back porch when it's cold outside? LOL Not kidding.... well... sort of... but I did use my Flir for that very purpose.

Did you manage to get one of the black friday priced ones on aliexpress? Pretty good to get the camera and the macro lens for $185, but it was annoying to dig through the 30 different "products" they had listed to find one that wasn't sold out of the combo pack with the macro (and that their $40 off coupon worked, but the $45 coupon didn't)

i have the same question since 2010. hmmm. quality is ok at this price, i think we are getting closer to fpv use...

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@@rolliseventeen I’m currently using one of those mini cellphones and TeamViewer to operate it remotely via. OTG to a thermal images. It’s super cool, but can only work where there’s a cellular signal. Hopefully prices for thermal camera drones will come down soon!

From my experience with quite a few cameras, I found only the FLIR ones can read temperature with any accuracy. The Chinese offerings and Seek both fail to read temperatures within even 5C of accuracy, sometimes off by more than 10C. They are good tools for finding shorting spots, but not good for radiometry. I know how to handle different emissivity, and I've received some proper radiometry training, the cameras just aren't accurate enough. I use a T3Pro from Infiray, and for what I do with it it is capable enough, but if you want concrete numbers, forget about it. I only use it to make sure my SOT883 transistors don't explode, and for that teeny tiny size I need a high resolution camera with a refocusable lens, hence the 384*288 camera. But I would be fooling myself if I cared about absolute accuracy. I only need to know if it is =175C. Any error within the gap is fine for me.

@@bskull3232 i cant say that over my P2 pro. i played a lot with it and even could monitor a slightly raised body temperature on my forehead of 38.2°C when i got the flu a week ago vers. 36-36.6°C normal. i'd call that super precise for a non prosumer product.

@@casemodder89 Good for you. Maybe mine are zebras. After all I didn't have tens of them, just a few. Most of mine measure body temp in north of 40C. That being said, I live in the north and the ambient here is cold, so the cameras tend to read higher than true temp. If your ambient is closer to the object being measured, you will get better accuracy.

@@bskull3232 Well, I can't confirm that either. Of course, thermal imaging won't getting accurate unless you are in the high 3 or 4 figure price range. There the sensors are usually compenasted for temperature changes and drift. Also: Emissivity is a great factor. I Usually use .95 for the most daily stuff, when I want to d accurate then I need to set the factor accuratly, then the results are pretty accurate. (I tested that on my 3D printer, I installed a separate thermal probe, used a matte tape and tested it with 70 degrees C of temp). 1-2C's difference is to be expected, with no account for emissivity 5C are possible, or even more, but usually a thermal camera is used to spot faults, defects or thermal bridges, rarely I've seen those to get used for referencing temperatures. In my expierience with also some higher end FLIR's, it's mostly user error. Also: The pricepoint.

@@jensharbers6702 Cheap cameras have single point temperature compensation sensor. When the camera is being warmed up or being cooled down, the compensation temp is not lens temp, thus the compensation can be thrown off by a few deg C, that's a major source of error. If you pull a camera out of your pocket into the cold winter air, you will find it being quite inaccurate for the first few minutes. Unfortunately, I don't do thermal imaging for a living, I only use it sparsely when I have to, so they never get to be properly warmed up or cooled down to reach thermal equilibrium.