In this post, I describe an animal recognition demonstration app I developed for the iPhone. The “MegaDetector-Demo” app uses the latest “MegaDetector” animal detector model from PyTorch-Wildlife to identify animals, people and vehicles in a live video feed from the … Continue reading →
Modern trail cameras are technically sophisticated embedded hardware and firmware systems. In this post I give a description of the key components and critical working aspects of Browning trail cameras. I provide this information as background for understanding how to … Continue reading →
I describe a simple flexible boot I designed to keep water out of the external power connector in some Browning Trail cameras. The boot fits over the coaxial barrel connector of the Browning external battery supply (BTC-XB).
Continue reading →The business considerations which prevent most trail camera manufacturers from offering customized firmware. Part 3 of series on reverse engineering Browning trail cameras
Continue reading →In this post, I describe several enhancements I have added to the Browning Timelapse mode to enable a broader set of applications. These enhancements are available for Browning Edge, Elite-HP4, and Elite-HP5 trail cameras
Continue reading →This post will focus on the requirements on tools and a tool flow for reverse engineering and hacking trail camera firmware. It is the second part of a multi-part series.
Continue reading →Introductions to tools and flow I used to reverse engineer embedded firmware for Browning trail cameras, and to introduce new functions.
Continue reading →A friend’s trail camera stopped triggering. Here’s how I figured out what was wrong, and how I fixed it.
Continue reading →When a trail camera revers back to its default settings, and won’t take a new firmware image, it is likely the EEPROM has failed. This post describes how I replaced the EEPROM in a Browning Trail Camera. Applies to multiple Browning trail camera models
Continue reading →Overview and teardown of a new white flash trail camera model — the GuardePro T5WF
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