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Tag Archives: firmware

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 5 — Trigger to Image Capture

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 18, 2024 by Bob ZakAugust 18, 2024
Inside BTC-8E-HP5

What happens between the time that a trail camera “triggers”, takes its first image, and goes back to sleep? Part 5 in a series of on trail camera hacking.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged browning trail camera, firmware, reverse engineering | Leave a reply

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

New Features for Browning Recon Force and SpecOps Cameras

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 4, 2023 by Bob ZakSeptember 10, 2024
Bear crossing stream

New features for recent generations of Browning Recon Force and Spec Ops trail cameras via loadable (non-factory) firmware

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged browning trail camera, BTC-7E, btc-7E-HP4, BTC-7E-HP5, BTC-8E, btc-8E-HP4, BTC-8E-HP5, firmware, firmware upgrade, hacking, Recon Force, reverse engineering, Spec Ops | 35 Replies

New Optional Features for Browning HP5 Trail Cameras

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on December 19, 2022 by Bob ZakSeptember 10, 2024
Red fox on splash screen for trail camera firmware

In a recent post, I introduced firmware with new features for Browning HP5 model trail cameras. This new version adds several more features — each selectable by additions to the camera’s setup menu. These features include date and time format … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Browning, camera trap, date format, DSLR-trigger, Elite, firmware, HP5, Recon Force, Spec Ops, time format, trail camera | 38 Replies

Adding Features to Browning Elite HP5 Firmware

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on November 14, 2022 by Bob ZakSeptember 10, 2024
Red Fox new splash screen

The Browning Elite HP5 series trail cameras have a rich set of features. But, like all computer firmware, it’s not perfect. Based on some Facebook feedback, and our own experience, I identified several small additions of interest to the camera … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, BTC-7E-HP5, BTC-8E-HP5, Elite, firmware, HP5, info strip, night video limit, Recon Force, reverse engineering, Spec Ops, trail camera | 106 Replies

IR to White Flash Trail Camera Conversion

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on September 15, 2021 by Bob ZakDecember 9, 2021
white flash modifed trail camera

Steps for converting a trail camera with an IR flash to a white flash for color night time photos and videos

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, BTC-7A, Converting from IR to white Flash, firmware, IR Flash, IR Trail Camera, recon force advantage, reverse engineering, White Flash | 26 Replies
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