Seek Thermal Compact High Resolution Thermal Imaging Camera
Seek Thermal Compact High Resolution Thermal Imaging Camera with Micro USB Connector and Protective Waterproof Case for Android Devices, Black
| Weight: | 0.23 Pounds |
| Size: | Android Micro USB |
| Dimensions: | 41 x 19 x 15 millimetres |
| Brand: | Seek Thermal |
| Model: | UW-AAA |
| Part: | UW-AAA |
| Colour: | Black |
| Dimensions: | 41 x 19 x 15 millimetres |
| Origin: | United States |
| Size: | Android Micro USB |
Fr den Preis bietet die Kamera eine ordentliche Leistung. Eine Wrmebildkamera am Handy ist natrlich nicht mit einem Profigert zu vergleichen.
Den Kauf der Kamera hat sich mehr wie gelohnt. War erstaunt ber die Genauigkeit der Wrmebilder. So lsst sich z.B. der Verlauf der Bodenheizung ziemlich genau bestimmen und notwendige Bohrungen in den Boden lassen sich damit gefahrlos durchfhren. Ideal auch zum identifizieren von Wrmeverlusten in der Wohnung oder am Haus. Anwendung ber die App ist einfach. Beim Filmen findet, bedingt durch die stndige Kalibrierung auf die Umgebungstemperatur eine kurze Unterbrechung statt. Diese ist Akustisch auch hrbar.
Nu 4 maanden in bezit. Uitstekende kwaliteit en het beste is dat de camera de accu van de telefoon gebruikt. Dus geen accu die leeg of kapot kan gaan.
Vandaag echter startte na aansluiten van de camera de app wel op, maar werd de camera niet gevonden. Zelfde op een tweede android apparaat (tablet).
De oplossing is om je toestel opnieuw op te starten MET de camera ingeplugd. Daarna werkt alles weer als vanouds!!!
I am leaving this review because this company wasted my time through false advertising. If you watch the company’s trailer for Seek Compact, it shows non-blurry, detailed photos. Not what I experienced with the seek compact I received. Perhaps they downgraded compact’s quality to sell the pro version. Anyway, zero stars. Returning it on the same day as I received it.
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Edit: 10/29/2022
I am revising my review to four stars. I compared this tool to Filr One Gen 3 and Seek Compact was indeed better. Much more detailed. Four stars because my brand new phone wouldn’t detect the device being attached numerous times and I had to replug numerous times, which is either an app or a product issue.
The grainy picture is a result of lack of temperature variance in viewed areas. Devices with higher resolution will give you less grain as they will be able to pick up more temperature variance. With Filr One Gen 3, the pictures are simply smoothed out to avoid grain. Not to mention the Flir One Gen 3 has battery which will fail, unlike Seek Compact.
Camera and delivery were without problem but cannot use it with my phone,USB connector is wrong
If you are using primarily for close range (circuit boards, or around the house) then I’d recommend the non-XR version (or the Pro if you can afford it). The resulting photo is too zoomed in on the XR when doing close-in work and you have to continually scan around to track what you are looking for and sometimes I have had to adjust settings.
Only other issue is if you have an older phone with even a slightly loose USB port. I treat my phone well but I constantly have connectivity issues even after rebooting the phone. I also tried USB extenders and cables, which improve it slightly but often I still have to jiggle and try multiple times and sometimes it works only for 10-60 seconds then drops off again. I don’t think this is a problem with the product itself but just of the overall design of plugging into a phone’s USB port, which would likely exist with any other similar product.
So, if you need instant, reliable operation every time you use it, you may prefer a dedicated, fully-contained device with its own screen. Perhaps others have difference experiences, I am just relaying mine. Hope this helps anyone trying to figure out which one to get.
If you have a need for thermal imaging and don’t want to hire a big FLIR device (that’s actually more expensive) then this device is ideal.
The camera itself works pretty well. The rest of the Seek system is somewhat lacking.
On the plus side, the camera works just fine with my laptop, my desktop computer, and my Raspberry Pi, all of which use third-party software to display the output. On the minus side, it doesn’t work with my tablet, which uses the official Seek software: Android recognizes that I’ve plugged the camera in, but the software insists it’s not connected.
Overall, four stars. It’s a decent camera hobbled by bad software.
Firstly it’s a great little infrared detection device, I have used it to look at electronics, electrical, insulation areas in dwellings, even your exhaust on your vehicle you can tell if you have a misfire without getting a hot finger, the unit does require a little bit of focussing when you’re looking at different distances to the device, but easy Learning curve that anybody can do
Natrlich ist die Auflsung nicht berauschend und man kann auch keine Maus in 50 Meter Entfernung orten.
Fr Gebude zum Auffinden von Dmmfehlern bzw. Wrmebrcken, fr Wasserleitungen warm oder einfach nur in der freien Natur Pflanzen, Wolken und Gewsser mal unter thermischen Gesichtspunkten fotofrafieren oder filmen.
Die hufig kritisierte App ist sicher noch ausbaufhig. Auch die Beschreibung knnte etwas besser sein.
Die beiliegende Box ist stabil und schtzt das empfindliche Teil bei Nichtgebrauch.
In 2020 I air-sealed my attic & basement rim joists. I then discovered that exterior insulation (under the vinyl exterior) was poorly installed. I looked at 6 more houses in other communities and found the same result…i.e. look “under the hood” of your house and you’re likely to find crummy workmanship that reduces your energy efficiency.
I want to kill drafts and save $$ heating/cooling my house (and my kids houses). Where to focus my effort? A thermal camera would help, but I can’t afford a pro camera. So for 2-3 weeks I read dozens of reviews on affordable thermal cameras. This Seek camera stood out due to the many favorable reviews. I favored the Seek over its nearest competitor because Seek has the higher pixel count. I did hesitate ‘cuz of reviews reviews saying: image quality is terrible; the camera won’t work unless you register; the camera steals information. But some excellent reviews addressed these issues for me, so now I’ll add my experience. It may help others who’ll consider this for future purchase
APP ACCESS TO PHONE:
I did NOT need to give the Seek app access to my phone. I did NOT need to register the camera. Here’s what I did. I dug up my 2014 LG G3 phone (no SIM card). I charged it, connected to a guest network, snapped the camera into the phone port and I installed the Seek Thermal app. Pop-up windows appeared asking for access to camera, photos, mic. **I denied access**. To my delight, the thermal camera image nevertheless appeared and I was quickly seeing images! Yes the Seek focus knob is a little tricky. It requires patience. When you change the focus knob you need to wait 2-4 seconds for the image to update. If you’re not patient the focus knob could appear to be useless. I also adjust my range further/closer to the target of interest as part of my focusing process. Well, in less than 5 minutes I was getting the hang of it and could easily recognize my thermal images. This was especially true when I switched the color palette. For me, ‘amber’ screen images were very clear.
Here’s the limitation in my strategy. Because I denied app access on my phone I couldn’t save thermal images as I walked around my house. For many uses that doesn’t matter. Looking for a hot, or cold or wet spot? There it is – problem identified and you never needed to grant the app phone access or register the camera. But if you’re surveying areas in your house like I am (for work when Spring returns) it could be cumbersome to record/diagram/inventory all the needs. You probably already saw that I attached pictures to this review, so yes, took the next step and gave the Seek app access to storage on my old LG G3. Then I could walk around cataloging areas that need work. When I stopped using the camera I disconnect it from the phone, powered off my G3 and put them both in a drawer.
CAMERA FIT:
I bought the older micro USB style. It snapped into my phone and is a very rugged connection. There’s no danger of the camera falling out even if I shake the phone. It would require dropping the camera or solidly smacking the phone on something to dislodge the camera. I did have to remove the hard-shell case and rubber cover from my LG phone to fit the camera, but this is a minor issue.
BATTERY LIFE: I agree that the camera is a battery drain. I walked around with the camera on for ~30 minutes and my phone battery went from 98% to 62%. Your experience will differ. For sure my 5+ year old G3 phone battery is nowhere near its original 3000mAh. May be best for you to guess you’ll get an hour of power before your phone will need juice.
Temperature accuracy:
I brought a pot of water to boil on my stove and viewed thru the Seek compact camera. The imaging spot jumped around due to the rigorous boiling, and was reporting temperatures of 207-210 degF. Or, when I image a person, the camera shows readings of 96-97 degF. These are both more than good enough for the current and expected work I plan with this camera.
IMAGES (attached)
One pic is my fireplace. You can see logs in the fireplace. The heart-shaped glow centered above the fireplace is a hanging wreath at room temp (bright). You can see the horizontal mantle, the candles on the mantle and even draped decoration. Lower left corner reading of 78F is the edge of a charging plug.
Another picture is of my front door – poor insulation around the door perimeter. The door window showed 57F. I have clear heat-shrink plastic insulation covering this window. The thin plastic insulation might be invisible to the Seek camera and it might be reading the temperature of the inside surface of that window. The high temp reading in the lower right corner is from an adjacent heat register.
3rd picture shows exterior wall next to my kitchen sink. Can you see the dish-drying rack, a coffee filter cone and a wall plug and power cord on the right? What troubles me is the dark blob that’s about in the center of the pic. It’s . the light/disposal switches. Even though I previously insulated that plate with ‘foam pads’ from a big box store and later w/Great Stuff, it’s still really cold. The cold even ‘flows’ down the wall and chills my sink counter. The Seek compact reveals that there’s ~6″ x 4″ section in the wall cavity that’s missing insulation. The camera revealed 3 other exterior wall outlets in my kitchen with the same missing insulation defect.
4th picture is a section of exterior wall. Maybe you can ID what it shows without my description and then decide for yourself if the image quality from the camera is useful.
I’m very happy with the performance/price ratio. Its’ working really well and I anticipate getting lots of data that will direct my work to make my house more comfortable, less costly, and more environmentally green. Thanks again to the positive detailed reviews from people before me. Good luck to those of you considering this Seek compact camera..
Having said all that, using the Nexus 5X, I’m a very happy customer.
The seek thermal camera does in fact work with a PC, but only when you use a special program called SeekOFix that you have to install from a third party programmer. Took me about 2 hours of reading online forums and tweaking with it to get it setup to work with my laptop which was quite the pain.
On to the actual hardware. For what it is you are getting a lot of tech for a really low price and incredibly tiny size. It is somewhat difficult to see and distinguish what is going on indoors, but where this camera really excels is outdoors. You get good overall clarity for several hundred feet with a discernible and detailed image in pretty much any lighting conditions. It does make a somewhat annoying clicking noise as it seems to have a mechanical shutter that closes every few moments but it is not terribly loud.
Power consumption is modest. It does drain batteries somewhat faster, but this is easily corrected with an external battery bank.
Mais attention au tlphone employ. Sur les Honor 7x avec adaptateur USB C vers mini, cela bugue compltement. Inutilisable. Par contre avec un Honor 9 qui possde un USB C natif, cela fonctionne.
La rsolution est bien meilleure que la camra autonome de type pistolet que j’avais avant. Par contre, je regrette l’absence de prise de vue image relle en simultan comme sur les Flir et autres.
Excellent easy to use handy and sturdy little box. Uses the phones battery so it’s always available.
I was more than surprised with the quality and capabilities of this little unit. Out in the park at midnight, and could pick up a fox across two football pitches. Amazing. The only con is my main phone it is a little loose and the camera sometimes switches off, but in an old phone it’s perfect.
I can literally walk through the park in complete darkness.
As noted in other reviews, the app does request a lot of rather spurious looking Android permissions, and refuses to run if you don’t grant them. A quick security monitoring session reveals that it does generate a bit of traffic to “phone home” servers, probably accumulating usage stats and such. It does not seem to routinely transmit photos or personal content to the servers, though the license agreement seems to imply that the company might claim the right to do that.
The Android version requires a phone with a MicroUSB port, if you have a newer phone with USB-C you must use an adapter that supports USB-OTG (many of the cheaper adapters do not.) Another potential caveat on Android is that on some phones the USB port faces the wrong way, so you get a thermal selfie cam. You want the narrower side of the MicroUSB toward the screen of the phone. Not a problem with USB-C as it’s generally reversible, though some of the cheap adapters might not be wired correctly for that.
There are also a couple of interesting projects developing Windows and Linux drivers, some of which use software processing to enhance the image well beyond stock quality. Sophisticated users might take a look.
My only regrets are that the device is not offered with a USB-C connector and that it takes some practice to learn how to focus the thermal image: you need something with good contrast to focus effectively and I often look around for something a similar distance away to focus on before taking a picture of the area that I want. The side-by-side optical image vs. thermal image part of the app works OK and allows you to simultaneously take separate optical vs. thermal images of an area with one screen tap to help you remember later what the thermal image is all about-taking notes is highly recommended, too! Only problem is that thermal image is quite a bit telephoto as compared to my standard Note 8 camera magnification and the two images are off-center relative to one another as the thermal camera is mounted on the opposite end of the phone (top) as compared to the Seek device plugged into the USB-C port via an adapter at least 6-inches away from the Note 8 camera lens.
I got the device to hunt for a roof leak and because of the app’s automatic color range adjustment, it’s quite sensitive detecting areas that are a few degrees cooler than their surrounding due to water evaporation. Thermal images do seem a little noisy and if you don’t look out for stray fingers at the periphery of camera view, a hot little finger inadvertently left in lens view can distort the color differences you want to capture as the heat of a finger puts everything else at the bottom of the thermal scale in a normal ambient environment. As another reviewer pointed out, if you stand someplace in barefeet for a couple of minutes, the device is sensitive enough to see the thermal footprints you left when you move away from the spot!
Besides homing in on my leaky roof problem with the device, I’m sure that I’ll find plenty of uses for checking for thermal leaks in our insulation come the winter months and trust that the device will more than pay for itself when used in that regard. I have several infrared thermometer guns but they don’t come close to giving you the big picture as this device literally does, while also allowing you to view difficult to reach places like vault ceilings – the Seek Thermal Compact is accurate to within 0.5 to 1.0 deg F of the best-selling thermal gun that I got on Amazon when tested on a number of objects around the house – and this is without any adjustment for thermal emissivity, which you can only do on the much more (~2x) expensive Thermal Compact Pro. I got the Compact version vs. the XR version for the Compact’s 36 degree field of view vs. the much more limited 20 degree view offered by the XR – and Seek’s own literature recommends the Compact or the Pro for use inside a house over the XR. Otherwise, in a tight space, you could find yourself unable to get back far enough to take in the big picture – but you can usually move closer to narrow the field of view if needed. The attached pictures show simultanous thermal/optical photos of a water leak area in our bedroom ceiling and also of our cat on the family room floor. The fifth picture, taken from further away in the bedroom, shows how some part of the leak seems to run down a seam in the sheetrock before it exits into our bedroom below! Last picture is wife sleeping in bed with only arms and head outside of covers. So, great thermal imager for its price (and if used with the right USB-C adapter and up-to-date Android phone).
P.S. Seek should make the compact plastic carrying case big enough to hold the imager when a USB-C to micro adapter is attached. The fit of the Weduda adapter is very tight-which is good-you don’t want the Seek device to fall off your phone! But once you have the USB-C adapter on the thermal imager, it no longer fits in its nice little plastic carrying case. What I did instead was cut a larger slot out of the box the imager came in so I can store and carry the imager with USB-C adapter always attached. Bit afraid I’ll damage or wear out the connector/imager is I am constantly trying to attach and remove the USB-C adapter. Better yet, for future purchasers, Seek should make a device with a straight USB-C connector. Get with the times!
So much fun to look at things in the IR spectrum during the day or at night there is a whole different world out there or indoors. Everything ran up right away the only niggling thing is that the micro USB connector seems to be intermittent and I cannot tell whether it is the phone of the camera jack. Apart from that I have bee able to look through walls seeing the wood frames inside, see animals outside in total darkness, and find mysterious places in the garden that for some reason stay warm until late at night! On the technical side the images are low resolution but for the money this can be a great toy or equally useful. The high temps spot readings are quite accurate but the low end scaling is way off. That is a small thing because it is usually the spot temperatures you are interesting in. The camera is educational for my young children as they understand it is seeing heat and not visible light. Attached pics: a kettle, south facing insulated wall, a guinea-pigs head
1. For less than $200, this is a fully functional, plug-and-play thermal camera that creates useful, impressive thermal images and video on my galaxy s7. Well done Seek!
2. I was not forced to create an account to use the app. It gave me the option to create one later or skip it, so I skipped it. I hate creating accounts to use a product (I bought it to serve me, not the other way around), so I’m relieved. The app opened and worked instantly and intuitively.
3. I can’t figure out how to get the “spot” temperature point readings yet. I only have the color scale with the min and max color temps.
4. With the brightness cranked up on my display, my phone battery drained faster today from extensive 1st day use of the thermal camera.
This is the best ~$200 I have spent on a while. I have many different projects that I want to investigate for hot/cold spots, and I feel this thermal camera will work very well for my many applications. I’ll report back when I have more info.
Update 9/16/2017
This device continues to impress me. I live in the desert in a manufactured rental house that is poorly insulated. After the old, inadequate central air conditioner failed the second time, I installed a 24k BTU air conditioner in the living room and began looking for hot spots in the house (currently pursuing). With the thermal camera, I could see hot spots in the ceiling and walls, and discovered an unventilated attic space in the back of the house that heated up during the day, and held the heat late into the night. I’m going to install a powered attic fan and vents, and cycle the fan after sundown to evacuate the hot air. I can’t wait to see the difference on the thermal camera! I attached a picture where the roof rafters can be seen through the ceiling at the end of a warm day. Very cool!
A few months ago, I re-upholstered the banana seat on my motorcycle, changing the color from all black, to black and white. The black seat heats up on sunny days, and cooks my rear when I hop on the bike. I left the rear of the seat (passenger area) and sides black, and made the area where I sit on the seat white. The new white upholstery felt cooler than the old black color, but I had no idea how much until I scanned it with the thermal camera. What a difference!
The app works perfectly on my galaxy S7. In the past 5 days, it has never crashed or had a bug, and I haven’t heard a word about registering the product or creating an account yet (yay!). I quickly found out how to switch to “spot” temperature mode, and found many other useful display modes. The image processing is fantastic, and I can always get the data that I need.
Other thoughts:
Plugging the camera into the usb port on my phone means I can’t charge my phone while using the camera. Maybe if there was an additional usb charging port on the camera? Wireless charging does however work while using the camera.
I also worry about a mishap (like dropping the phone) trashing both the expensive camera and the usb port on my more expensive phone. I guess that’s where a dedicated, hand held thermal camera comes in. I’ve dropped the camera a few times, but it’s very light weight and well built, and still doesn’t have a scratch on it.
I plugged the thermal camera into my phone, and mounted my phone in the car mount on the dash (upside down) so I could view the road in front of me through infrared vision! Then the featureless green screen reminded me that IR doesn’t pass through automotive glass very well. The screen does rotate when I turn the phone upside down, in case I wanted to risk mounting it above the windscreen on my motorcycle.
I’ve been thinking about getting another camera, connecting it to an old android phone, and mounting it to my shotgun to add thermal imaging to my home protection arsenal 🙂
The thermal imaging also doesn’t work on reflective metallic surfaces, but I guess that’s the nature of IR. I have to remember that sometimes when I’m imaging a scene that contains reflective metal parts, as they tend to show a temperature gradient, even though they are the same temperature of the surrounding matte materials.
The hard shell, soft inside carrying box that comes with the camera is itself a very nice piece. The tinted and opaque plastic is thick, rigid, has a mirror finish, and the assembly snaps together perfectly.
Overall, I see high quality, consumer grade hardware and software that work together to deliver a dazzling experience for very little dough
Only knock I have is that it would be great to be able to fix the exposure level (temperature mapping to pixel colors) so that you can take a useful series of shots of something heating or cooling for easy comparison. Seems silly but I was thinking of using the camera to film some glass blowers but as the glass cools the cameras keeps the highest seen temperature the same color, making it much less impressive as the glass looks like it stays at the same temperature and the background gets hotter 🙁
Otherwise it’s excellent. I’ve found missing insulation panels, verified my 3d printer bed is at an even, correct, temperature everywhere on the plate, seen how it heats up (so you can work out the minimum preheat time before printing), checked electronics to make sure nothing is getting too hot etc.
Some things to note: if you’re trying to look around your house, and the room(s) have been sealed for a long period of time, everything that does not generate heat is going to be at a similar temperature (walls, furniture, floors, counter tops, etc). Think of heat as light for the camera, and everything is the same brightness. But, if there is something that generates heat, it will be easy to distinguish. I am able to pick out my smoke detector on my ceiling, which only has a couple of degrees difference. I am also able to see the veins in my arm. Play with the different filters in the app (which as worked well for me, running Android on a Galaxy S5), as different color schemes work better in different scenarios.
If you have a case, or something that covers your micro usb or lightning port, I suggest an extender. I have a Magpul case on my phone; and, while the camera still plugs in and functions fine, I do have to twist my port cover out of the way and I don’t want to break it off.
Lastly, the focus works well, as long as there is enough differentiation in heat.
I want to make sure I am transparent with this review: I purchased this from amazon and the package never arrived (Lost in the mail or stolen off my porch) so I was not able to actually use the one I bought. I found out that a friend of a friend had one, and she let me use hers so I did not have to buy one for one project. I did use the exact same model. If I have a need for thermal imaging again, I will buy this again without hesitation.
First, the image resolution: if you’re used to multi-megapixel digital photo cameras, forget about it – that’s not what you’re getting with the Seek, or any other thermal in a price range less than a Tesla (or two or three, or twenty). Thermal is about 20 years behind that, dollar for dollar (image worse than the first Nikon digital I bought back in ’93-’94). However, the resolution is about four times what you’d get with the 1st gen FLIR One’s Lepton imager. The Seek image is very, very pixelated, and the long time constant video averaging requires one to hold it it very steady or the image will smear (think 1/4 – 1/2 second hand-held still exposure steady on a conventional camera). Unlike FLIR’s visual/thermal overlay (patented MSX), Seek requires you to swipe back and forth between the thermal and the camera’s visual camera images in the app. You can capture visual or thermal, or half and half, but not one on top of the other. The result is a better thermal image and a better visual image on the Seek that may not look quite as good as the FLIR’s MSX overlay as a captured snapshot. Some of my colleagues think the FLIR MSX approach is better at this price point. I disagree for now, but I can understand their argument.
Having a pretty low general opinion of the current state of what passes for software engineering, and even lower of Android apps, I can say that the Seek app is better than most Android apps I’ve used, especially at this level of maturity and adoption (its adoption isn’t even a rounding error compared to a Google app). It installed cleanly on my new Moto G 2nd gen with Lollipop (the cheapest smartphone platform I could find that might support it, as my previous Nexus 4 would not). It hasn’t crashed or locked-up, and it cleanly sends captured images to G-mail or Bluetooth. The visual/thermal swap feature is useful, as are the various color palates (“Iron” looks cool on ads, and in reports, but I’ve always used gray scale for serious work). I don’t like the inability to set gain or freeze the AGC (something the new FLIR’s app can apparently do), but I can live with that at this price point (for the time being). Thermal differential sensitivity in a low contrast scene seems to be pretty good – I’ll take Seek’s claim of about 0.1 degrees C as about right. I don’t expect this to be a calibrated radiometer, or to use it as a substitute for a high quality imager for point medical screening, so I’m not going to get wrapped-up with actual vs. reported temperature values in the app (and no one wants to read a discourse on emissivity variations). I hope Seek (and FLIR) will have emissivity adjustments and calibration methods in the not-too-distant future (and some education, as I see a lot of misunderstanding and inflated expectation in some of the posts/reviews).
As a usability note: I lucked out with the Moto G 2nd gen; it wasn’t listed as “supported” when I bought it, although the 1st gen G was, as was the Moto X, 1st and 2nd gen. I also lucked out that the USB is oriented in a way that the Moto’s visual camera is pointed in the same direction as the Seek, so that a back-and-forth overlay or split is easy. Not sure I’d be quite as happy if I found that I had to use one of the extension USB cables to orient it with one hand, while holding the phone with the other.
Finally, the imager comes with a cute, really well-designed and constructed hard little carrying case. I can thrown it in my briefcase, backpack or cargo pant pocket, and not even think about it. Nice touch!
Bottom line: for those with a realistic understanding of the current state-of-the-art, this is amazing. If you want to get into the world of thermal imaging at a really reasonable price point, or you’re just looking for a cool toy that’s about the same price as a high-end 802.11 AC router, it’s worth giving this a try. If you wait six months or a year, there will probably be something better. But, you’d probably still be using a typewriter and a Western Electric phone if that was the #1 consideration.
Second application was around doors. You know in a hurry that you have a weather stripping problem when the top of the door is 47 degrees and the bottom is 65 degrees. I was able to spot these things because of one of the features I did not know existed when I ordered. There is a mode that will show you the highest temp and the coldest temp of any area you are scanning.
The third use of the day was not planned. We are watching a family members dog who decided to have an accident on the carpet. We stopped him quickly but when we went to grab the cleanup supplies we were not able to see where exactly he had done it because of the small amount and the carpet color. Turned on this thing and bam – there it was,,
I would say the only issue would be long term use. This is something I will use a lot know but definitely not an everyday tool. Would be something cool to be able to rent or rent out…
The good: cheaper than any other thermal camera I’ve found (by A LOT), compact, cool
The bad: can’t see through cover (bushes, obstacles, etc.), though this is not major for me. Not military resolution/range, but I’m a civilian, and it will see animals at range.
btw, I have no association with Seek Thermal (though this reads like a shill review) – I just am still in love with the camera.