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Browning Dark Ops DCL Nano (BTC-6DCLN) Review and Teardown

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on November 14, 2024 by Bob ZakMay 23, 2025

Browning recently introduced a new model in their 6-series Dark Ops trail cameras — the DCL Nano (BTC-6DCLN). This camera is small and light and features a silent, two sensor camera architecture. Lab measurements show that it operates at low … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, BTC-6DCLN, DarkOps, DCL Nano, review, Teardown, trail camera | 10 Replies

Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 6 — 3rd Party Reverse Engineering Tools

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on September 9, 2024 by Bob ZakSeptember 9, 2024
USB Logic Analyzer

3rd Party tools and their usage in reverse engineering trail camera firmware. Part of series.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, firmware, hacking, reverse engineering, reversing, trail camera, winterberry wildlife | 10 Replies

Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 4 — Theory of Operation

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 5, 2024 by Bob ZakAugust 6, 2024
Inside BTC-8E-HP5

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 →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, firmware, reversing, trailcam | 2 Replies

Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 3 – Business Considerations

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 21, 2024 by Bob ZakNovember 20, 2024

The business considerations which prevent most trail camera manufacturers from offering customized firmware. Part 3 of series on reverse engineering Browning trail cameras

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, consumer electronics, cusomization, firmware, manufaturing, Prometheus Group, reverse engineering, trail camera | 14 Replies

Timelapse Feature Enhancements for Browning Trail Cameras

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 14, 2024 by Bob ZakSeptember 10, 2024

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

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, camera trapping, Edge, firmware, HP4, HP5, reverse-engineering, timelapse, trail camera, trail cameras | 13 Replies

Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 2 — Requirements

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 9, 2024 by Bob ZakJuly 10, 2024
Custom menu items for browning trail camera

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.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, camera tracking, embedded firmware, firmware, hacking, reverse engineering, reversing, trail camera | 6 Replies

Repairing Browning Trail Camera that Won’t Trigger

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on April 17, 2024 by Bob ZakApril 17, 2024

A friend’s trail camera stopped triggering. Here’s how I figured out what was wrong, and how I fixed it.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, BTC-7A, fail, PIR sensor, recon force advantage, trail camera, water damage | 22 Replies

Deep Tech: Repairing EEPROM in Browning Trail Cameras

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on January 23, 2024 by Bob ZakSeptember 4, 2024
Trail Camera EEPROM

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

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech, DIY | Tagged Browning, EEPROM, Repair, Settings, trail camera | 14 Replies

Fixing Browning Edge, Elite HP4 and HP5 SD Card Corruption

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on November 16, 2023 by Bob ZakSeptember 10, 2024
trail camera grizzley bear vs. SD card corruption

Lately we, and others, have encountered a bug in some Browning trail cameras that results in corrupted SD cards. This post explains what caused this bug. It also includes a fix

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, corrupt sd card, Edge, Elite, format card, HP4, HP5, no image found, Recon Force, SpecOps, trail camera | 125 Replies

DIY: Trail Camera Lens Hacking

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on January 16, 2023 by Bob ZakDecember 5, 2024
camera module

This post gives an overview of potential lens replacements for Browning Trail Cameras.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, DIY | Tagged Blurry photos, blurry trail camera photos, Browning, BTC-7A, BTC-7E, btc-7E-HP4, BTC-7E-HP5, BTC-8A, BTC-8E, btc-8E-HP4, BTC-8E-HP5, focal length, lens, trail camera, wide-angle | 44 Replies

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