[chirp_devel] [bj-uv55] patch for initial support - need help from UV-5R experts/testers

[Jens J.]

sample radio image attached



On Sunday, November 10, 2013 7:41 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
 
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Jens J. <kd4tjx at yahoo.com> wrote:

[bj-uv55] initial channel editing support #1201
>patch attached.
>
>This is definately a UV-5R clone (in terms of architecture), but in a mobile form-factor. Therefore, there are several differences in terms of offsets of settings locations, id/band-range, etc in the memory map.
>
>I have made a few changes to the uv5r.py driver which I am hoping wont impact other covered models, but ask for some help in testing, as I do not have an UV-5R (or similar) to do regression tests against.
>
>Also, I'm trying to understand what to modify so that when opening a radio image file, it will recognize this image as being BJ-UV55.
>
>I assume this has something to do with header bytes, but it wasnt so clear to me reading over the code.
>
>I have also tried to simplify a few areas with list comprehension, like:
>
>
>-    if "BFB" not in radio_version and "82" not in radio_version and "USA" not in radio_version:
>+    if not any(type in radio_version for type in ["BFB", "82", "USA", "BJ55"]):
>
>however, it appears to me these should be simplified further to something like:
>if radio._basetype not in radio_version:
>// make better use of _basetype!
>
>-Jens
>AF5MI
>

Jens,

Email an .img file from the BJ55 for me to look at. Thanks

Jim KC9HI
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