#SEEK THERMAL CAMERA RASPBERRY PI SOFTWARE#
However, the software is more powerful, the shots are slightly more useful, and the camera itself is half the price. The Seek's design isn't as pleasing as the Flir One iPhone case, and its output photos are lower resolution and have less visual detail despite the use of a higher resolution thermal camera. You can also set a threshold to make the picture appear only if it's above a certain temperature. You can set the app to capture raw images when you take photos or videos, or display the temperature at the center of the screen, or display the highest and lowest temperatures the camera detects in-frame.
You can disable the Seek watermark, and add your own time and location stamps to your pictures. The Seek app is extremely easy to use, and slightly more powerful than the Flir One's app thanks to a broader array of options. Because the thermal sensor itself is higher resolution and the picture isn't processed to fit visual edges like the Flir One, the Seek Thermal actually shows more of the useful information you need to fix, repair, and improve things. They're helpful tools for plumbing, electrical systems, insulation, and even carpentry, and can be extremely useful to handymen who need to find where a draft is coming from or a pipe is leaking. They're intended to measure temperatures across their view and show hot and cold spots to identify problems that need to be fixed. Thermal cameras like the Seek and the Flir One aren't intended to take photos or video for entertainment purposes (though they are fun to play with). While the pictures aren't as good looking, the higher resolution thermal data makes up for it. However, this isn't a knock against the Seek. The Seek doesn't use such a feature, so its photos are lower resolution-even if there is more raw thermal data present. The Flir One uses a processing algorithm to combine the 80-by-60 thermal sensor's image with pictures taken by a VGA (640-by-480) visual camera next to it, producing distinct contrasts and boundaries where it detects temperature variations that correspond with visual edges. However, the Seek's pictures look significantly less sharp and detailed than the Flir One's photos because it relies only on the thermal sensor. Heat Seeking The Seek's thermal sensor has a resolution of 206 by 156 pixels, significantly higher than the Flir One's 80-by-60 thermal sensor. The Lightning version has no such problem, because the connector can be slotted in either direction.
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LG device owners should be aware of a quirk with their smartphones and tablets that can make the Seek difficult to use: Since LG-manufactured phones like the LG G3 and the Google Nexus 5 are built with their micro USB ports flipped upside-down compared with most other phones, and the Android version of the Seek uses a fixed micro USB connector, you'll be limited to thermal selfies of yourself unless you get a short extender cable. The Android version is compatible with most Android devices running 4.3 or higher, and that support USB On-The-Go (which includes nearly all recent smartphones and tablets). The Lightning version is compatible with Apple devices running iOS 7.0 or above, and is optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch (though it worked fine with my iPad Mini). It measures barely two inches across, with a prominent circular lens sticking out from the left edge.