xBT reporting 42.5 C

[webbedjoes]

Hey guys.

I installed the xBT yesterday and my Halo scanner had just arrived. It’s reporting my body temperature is 42.5c which would kill me. Is this normal? Is there a way to calibrate this?

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@webbedjoes

my body temperature is 42.5c which would kill me. Is this normal?

Totally normal for 42.5⁰C to kill you because the high heat denatures proteins and cell membranes causing widespread cellular damage, including the brain, kidneys, liver, and heart plus your blood will clot stopping blood flow to those vital organs…so yeah, totally normal to kill you.
In medical terms you would be fucked

@webbedjoes

Halo scanner had just arrived. […] Is there a way to calibrate this?

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Sorry, just fucking with you.

No you cant physically / firmware calibrate the xBT, though that would be nice.
They are not super accurate, but not normally that far out as yours.

@Ben_bionic

To anyone getting a xbt I’d recommend doing your own calibration. Read the chip and compare to a known good reading by a secondary thermometer. Plot the reading differences and see how far off your chip is. Mine is always hotter than reality by like 5 degrees fahrenheit but it’s a non linear correlation.

@webbedjoes

I installed the xBT yesterday

That MIGHT be the reason for reading so high.
I haven’t personally heard of any reading that high.
I would expect the results to be within a couple of ⁰ of normal.

Where is your xBT located?

Is it consistently reading 42.5⁰C?

Have you tried reading at different clothing layer levels?
Will be hotter if you have been wearing an Artic style jacket vs a “wife beater”.

I would suggest you give it a few more days to heal and if you can, try another reader, or test your reader on another chip if possible.

Here some light reading whilst you heal

xBT placement and temperature readings

what do you mean? i always look exactly like that when i put my arm up basically yes… there will always be some delta between “core” temp and extremities, even if the chip is placed on the inside of the arm… but one hopes that this delta is constant and linear and easily calibrated for… which is harder and harder to guarantee the smaller and further away the extremity gets. the problem is the term “core”… even with a thermometer in your mouth, you are not getting “core” temperature… …

Comparison between xBT and thermometer

Hey there! I got an xBT chip implanted into my chest about a month ago. It’s deeper than my other implants, I can neither see nor feel it - I told my artist to place it like that because I hoped to get a more constant measuring that way. Now I’ve been measuring my temperature (for science! ) twice a day since then, once in the morning before getting up (so-called basal temperature) and once on some other time of the day, both with the xBT and a flipper and with a thermomete…

Hope that helped…

[webbedjoes]

@Pilgrimsmaster

Where is your xBT located?

Is it consistently reading 42.5⁰C?

Thanks for your response. I have the xBT installed just below the armpit in the recommended location. It’s currently reading 43c at the moment, but I have tried the reading with no shirt on for a little while and it didn’t really move. I don’t currently have another reader that can display the temperature.

My worry here is this chip has the casing around it to bond itself to the tissue and if this one is bunk I’d like to get it out before that starts to happen!

I was hoping I could find someone who has experienced this shortly after install, hoping it would be an issue with swelling but it doesn’t seem likely.

Would be super annoying to have installed a faulty chip but I guess that comes with the territory.

[amal]

Do you have an xEM or product with a T5577 and a way to program it like a proxmark? You can program it to emulate an FDX-B chip with temperature data like the xBT and find out if it’s the chip or the Halo reader. Likely the chip but also nice to test.

[webbedjoes]

I can certainly get one of my NExT’s and reprogram it for testing. If the chip is faulty, how would I go about getting a replacement?

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@webbedjoes

If the chip is faulty, how would I go about getting a replacement?

I would suggest you get your testing done first and wait a few more days of healing

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xBT reporting 42.5 C

Hey guys. I installed the xBT yesterday and my Halo scanner had just arrived. It’s reporting my body temperature is 42.5c which would kill me. Is this normal? Is there a way to calibrate this?

[webbedjoes]

I’ve got a Proxmark 3 and a T5577 card, but it’s the emulating part that leaves me stumped… Is it easy to do? Time to start digging.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@webbedjoes

Time to start digging.

Try
lf fdxb clone --country 999 --national 1337 --animal

[webbedjoes]

you are a star. I was able to emulate the card with the additional –extended parameter which got the Halo reader to scan the card and provide a temp reading.

I then ran “lf fdxb reader -@” and held it against my armpit until I got a reading back. I then kept the reader in place and ran “lf fdxb reader” and it’s reporting

[+] Bio-Thermo detected

[=] temperature… 93.4 F / 34.1 C

And the Halo reader is reporting 42C!

So I think we can safely say it’s the Halo reader itself!!

I can’t thank you enough for your help so far - looks like I’ll return this Halo reader and just get a Flipper Zero lol! (need one anyway!)

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@webbedjoes

I can’t thank you enough for your help so far

that’s what we are here for.

@webbedjoes

I’ll return this Halo reader and just get a Flipper Zero lol! (need one anyway!)

Good decision.

Thats what I use to read my xBT.

Super handy tool

[amal]

@webbedjoes

return this Halo reader

Just fyi the Halo people are very helpful and could probably supply a firmware fix if you engaged them. They provided another forum user with a custom firmware update one time for a personal project they were working on.

[webbedjoes]

@amal

and could probably supply a firmware fix if you engaged them.

I have seen how great they are to us in the forums before! Super cool to see a team who is willing to help. In this case, I needed a flipper zero anyway and it’s much smaller to carry around. Didn’t expect the Halo to be so big!