🔥 Better Thermal - Unofficial, FOSS App for UNI-T Thermal Cameras 🔥

Why

The official app is -

• Closed-source
• Partly in Chinese (not translated)
• Slow as heck when browsing photos (on my Pixel 10)
• Asks for too many permissions before it can be used
• Doesn't use all the features the thermal camera actually provides

Supported devices

Note

I own a UTi720E, the other devices should work as well though as they share the same interface according to their app. Supporting more devices is near-impossible, UNI-T implements half a dozen protocols, some custom, some standards across their devices. It's incredible chaotic. The devices listed below share the same "API" for browsing files, fetching them and (potentially) live-streaming the video.

Supported thermal cameras are UTi730E, UTi720E (tested), UTi320E, UTi260E, and H16T.

Features

• ✨ Cross-platform, support for Android and Windows (macOS and iOS coming)
• 📺 Live streaming the current image
• 📸 Take and browse photos remotely
• 🔍 Inspect photos taken in detail
• 📤 Export different variants of the photo (raw, visual, thermal, etc.)

Screenshots

Live preview and settings

Note

The recording comes from an emulator, with a physical device I get around 8-15FPS depending on the WI-FI connection. All the following images/vides are taken with a UTi720E.

Inspecting taken images

Note

Thermal and visual images are both provided by the thermal camera itself.

Note

Images can be opened to inspect / visualize the raw thermal data (that is also embedded in each image).