Just as you happy owners of the liberated E4 thought you've seen everything your camera is capable of, here comes your
The E4 Christmas packA cool feature called User Presets, which adds more camera features. With user presets You define your own measurement presets. You select which measurement instruments to use, a combination of the measurement instruments, and even a number of instruments, i.e. you can have more than 1 box in combination with more than 1 spots, etc.
This feature also adds more measurements instruments such as Circle (creates measurement area within a round area) and Line (measures temperature variation along a straight line edge to edge of the screen. Keep reading for details and examples.
This liberation mod was developed and tested on the E4 WiFi camera, software v3.9.0. It may work on other newer software versions for which the original liberation procedure worked. You will try at your own risk.
To activate this feature you need to modify your conf.cfc using the same decryption/encryption procedure as during the original liberation process to add a line into it, and upload one updated XML file which will be provided. As before, this post assumes you know how to connect to the camera to read and write files so no instructions will be provided for the connectivity part.
After the reboot the Main Settings menu will have a new "Define User Presets" menu which takes you to the screen to define two user presets:
Clicking on a preset name takes you to the preset design screen. I made the screenshots using a USB port capture software and the scene image is visible. But on the camera screen there will be no scene displayed, the screen is blank and only the preset controls are visible. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature.
Every time right after you enter the preset definition screen, the cursor buttons on the camera are not responsive (must be a software bug), you have to press the center button or the trigger button to exit the screen and then go there again. This time the cursor buttons will work and you can make a selection to add a measurement.
In the below example I added a Box, moved it to the top right area, resized the box to make it a bit smaller and then added a Max measurement to it using the control menu bar at the screen bottom.
I then created a circle, resized it and added Max and Average measurements to it. Click Done icon to save changes to the profile.
I then went ahead and created a Delta function (Circle Average minus Box Max). To do this I selected the Delta icon and scrolled through the selection values to create the desired function. The delta function screen gives you all the permutations available with the measurement controls you have set up. You can use Left-Right and Up-Down camera buttons to move between the controls and make your selection. Once completed, click the down arrow icon on the parent toolbar to save the changes.
I then configured Preset 2 with a Line function. Line is a very cool feature which in displays a real time plot of temperature profile along the Line in addition to the numeric display. In this example I added a Line, positioned it and added Max, Min and Average measurement. The average measurement displays the average temperature along the Line.
After the presets are defined in the Settings menu, you can go ahead and select Preset 1 or Preset 2 from the Measurements toolbar:
Note that in the User Preset mode the two user presets replace the two righthand presets on the toolbar that were there before the mode. It is typically the Delta S and Delta T presets that get pushed out by the user presets. However, you can simply design one or the other in User Presets mode if you want them. You cannot rename User Presets however.
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