Edge - Wireless Bluetooth Thermal Imaging Camera for Smartphones, Compatible with All iOS and Android Devices, 240x180 Super Resolution (80x60 Native IR)

Excellent infrared camera! I use it every as an indoor Environmentalist.

Use it for home inspections, it took me awhile to get the calibration right, and the connection is a little laggy sometimes, which is why I took a star off. I would buy it again. Great watch to find leaks behind a wall, when running hot water.

Great little thermal so far. Sometimes the heat signatures are a little off the device putting off the heat from a distance but nothing crazy that effects it’s usefulness

The battery life is amazing compared to the Flir One. The Flir One is not compatible with the iPhone 15 and I need to upgrade phones soon. So, I’m forced to try the Edge. The device connects to the phone with the use of a Wi-Fi connection, which will fail and need to be reconnected at least 6-10 times in every home assessment I do. A traditional thermal eval will take me 10-15 mins and with the Edge, my time has over doubled. The Edge also lags very often and causes me to stand around staring at the phone waiting for the camera to catch up. I have been using the Flir One for over 5 years and I’ve never had any of these issues. I will likely be returning this and sticking with the phone that I have until the product connectivity and lag issues have been resolved. I may try to exchange the Edge and see if this happens the same with a different unit. Update: After using this for approximately 2 months, this product is completely deficient. On any given assessment of a house, I'm averaging 1 disconnect or non-connect per 60-90 seconds of use. I can't imagine a product that has such a significant failure rate and was still sent to market for consumer use. Additionally frustrating is the fact that Flir has chosen to force anyone upgrading to an iPhone 15 that has a USB C instead of the lightning charging port to have to convert to this product instead of simply updating the software for the existing USB C Flir ONE that already has the hardware design. I've used the Flir ONE with the lightning connection for over 5 years with no issues. Forcing us to utilize a subpar and unreliable Wifi connection between the Edge and the phone is lazy and shows a lack of care for the end user. In summary, I'll be either forced to stay with the iPhone 13 or find an alternate thermal camera to use as this one is very frustrating to use in the field.

Works as advertised. I used it to confirm if I'd fixed a bad switch going to the house battery bank on my boat. The prior switch burnt up and nearly started a bad fire! The FLIR easily displayed the 4/0 charging wires along with temp. I never got above 90 degrees, even when running 250 amps. I plan to use this during regular checks during long cruises going forward. A great safety tool!!! (see photos)

Works great when it works, have trouble getting it to connect sometimes and it lags or freezes for a few seconds every minute or so. Right now I can not get it to connect to my phone. I think I'll spend the money and get a good quality thermal imaging camera instead of a Bluetooth one. One the fence about recommending this product

Easy to set up, easy to use. Informative! Great for the engine room on my boat, for periodic engine checks.

I get the feeling that this device was designed by different teams in different parts of the world-- or at least those teams were not connected and using prototype versions of the device to understand that certain parts of the device are amazing, while other aspects are infuriating. What's good? The hardware build quality. It's a beautiful, high quality manufactured brick, rubber coated, on the caliber of a Mercedes, BMW or Apple device. Second to none. What's not good? Lots. 1. Support. It was incredibly difficult to finally figure out there is no way to upgrade the firmware on this device, or even check or know that it was on the latest recommended version. After a ticket to support, I was told it updates "automagically" through the mobile app. Even the app doesn't have a check feature to say, "yes, you have the latest firmware!" 2. Why did I want to check the firmware? I faced very frequent situations with the inability to power on the camera and connect to the mobile device. It would see the camera, but could not connect to it at least 50% of the time. In situations where you are pulling the camera out and doing a quick check for energy waste containment progress, this is ineffective. You can literally stop a job with this long boot-up and connection time. 3. I have had other devices that use this Bluetooth + wifi pairing model like Insta360 products, which face kind of similar connection issues regardless of iOS or Android, swapping the mobile, etc. I would have liked to have the ability to plug the camera directly into the mobile device with a USB-C cable, but the camera doesn't seem to support this kind of direct connection to keep it on and connected at all times. 4. Refresh Rate Lag: When you do get a connection between the mobile device and the camera, moving the camera around the environment has such a refresh rate lag that all you see on the screen of the app is a SMEAR of colors. 20 years ago this was a normal challenge but not so much any more. "DO BETTER" is all I can say about this aspect of the unit. I actually started with the kind of unit that plugs directly in to the phone via the USB-C plug. I sent it back because I found I couldn't rotate the phone and put the camera at the top. I found I was constantly covering the cameras with my fingers, and this is the only reason I moved on from that design to this wireless design. In all, I think that design was more effective than this one, even taking in mind to keep the fingers out of the way. The detractions with this model are strong enough that I actually prefer the one I returned... All being said, what I was looking for was a USB-C model that worked with iOS. This one is the only one recommended at this time, and for me it was a fail and returned. I wanted to like it and I had a really positive brand reputation/perception of FLIR before these experiences. I'm hoping they get a solid unit at a reasonable price that doesn't have connectivity issues and display lag. I've even considered buying a stand-alone unit that has a screen built in. In this era of smart devices I would never have imagined I would come to that conclusion as the best solution for these problems.

Wow what pictures easy to see the temperature loss. Easy to set up with app on phone saves pictures.

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Pricy tool, but it's good. Mostly fooling around with it, but its great.

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Ich habe die Flir One Edge ausprobiert, da die Flir One (Pro) für iOS ausschließlich mit Lightning verfügbar ist. Grundsätzlich funktionierte alles wie es soll. Die Einrichtung ist einfach und auch der Funktionsumfang ist gut. Dazu kommt eine einfach zu bedienende App. Neueinsteiger können für derzeit 35€/Jahr zusätzliche Anleitungen in der App abrufen - bspw. für die Suche nach problematischen Stellen im Haus. Wie gut diese sind, kann ich nicht beurteilen - die 35€ habe ich mir gespart. Auch die Möglichkeit, die Kamera unabhängig vom Display zu positionieren, ist sehr praktisch. So kann ich die One Edge bspw. an meine Drohne hängen und damit auch Aufnahmen aus anderen Perspektiven machen. Leider ist die WLAN Übertragung aber auch die Schwachstelle der Kamera. Dabei stören mich vor allem zwei Dinge: 1. Sehr hohe Latenz. Leider scheint das WLAN der Kamera nur eine geringe Datenrate zu und/oder die Verarbeitung der Bilder ist zu langsam - ob die Kamera oder die App das Hauptproblem ist, sehe ich dabei als zweitrangig. Manchmal lag die Verzögerung "nur" bei ca. 3 Sekunden. Meist waren es jedoch eher 5 Sekunden. Wenn die Kamera nicht direkt am Telefon ist, mehrfach auch schon um die 7 Sekunden. 2. Sehr geringe Reichweite. Zusätzlich zur hohen Latenz kommt noch hinzu, dass die Sendeleistung des WLAN Moduls in der Kamera sehr gering ist. Laut Hersteller-Website kann eine Reichweite von bis zu 5 Metern erzielt werden. Das konnte ich soweit in meinen Test auch nachvollziehen. Allerdings bekommt man bereits ab 3 Metern Warnungen über ein schwaches Signal (Plus-Punkt aber, dass man solche Warnungen rechtzeitig erhält). Auch die Latenz der Signal-Übertragung steigt entsprechend deutlich merkbar an. Positiv finde ich auch die Möglichkeit, die Wärembilder direkt auf den Herstellereigenen Dienst Flir Ignite hochzuladen. Dort hat man dann die Möglichkeit, die Bilder zu teilen oder sich weitere Daten anzeigen zu lassen (oder bspw. zusätzliche Messbereiche und -punkte hinzuzufügen. Die grundsätzliche Idee hinter der Flir One Edge finde ich gut. Auch die einfache Bedienung, die Integration via App und weiterfürhende Services finde ich gut. Für 420€ ist mir jedoch die Latenz definitiv zu hoch und die Reichweite zu gering. Insbesondere, da ich die auch mal vorübergehend an meine Drohne hängen möchte. Ich werde mir vermutlich eine andere Wärmebildkamera zulegen - auch wenn ich dann ggf. immer erst die SD-Karte entnehmen oder die Kamera an den Laptop anschließen muss.