[chirp_devel] Baofeng UV-5R Variants and CHIRP v0.4.1

[Jens Jensen]

Jim,
Perhaps the upload sequence needs to have some additional safety, i.e., query target radio and compare/match some ident string on candidate image - and fail upload if they match - of course with an informative message (link to kb article, etc).

I think in general certain radio drivers should always do this as we have had this problem before (different radio images with similar/same radio models).

Does anyone know if oem software does this? I think I recall seeing that the oem software only queries and stores certain portions of the radio image (not special blocks) - while certain functions that interact with special block are done in sort of a real-time fashion.



> On Dec 30, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Almost daily someone has to be instructed how to recover their radio
> after they uploaded a CHIRP image saved from a radio with BFB/BFS
> firmware into a new radio with N5R firmware. I have been pulling my
> hair out trying to figure out how they are doing this. The daily
> builds blocks an image that is incompatible with the radio to be
> uploaded.
> 
> I just confirmed that uploaded a BFS311 image into an N5R-20 radio
> that the single backport patch to CHIRP v0.4.1 isn't enough to keep
> CHIRP from uploading incompatible images.
> 
> I keep telling everyone to not use the CHIRP stable version for all
> Baofeng/Pofung radios (except for the UV-B5/UV-B6) but most don't find
> out until it is too late. And there are some that don't want to run
> anything but a stable release.
> 
> The October date on the stable build is misleading. It contains
> nothing since the April v0.4.0 build except the backported patch that
> apparently isn't dong the job.
> 
> I'm thinking that there either needs to be more patches backported to
> the stable build (not recommended by me) or roll out a v0.4.2 that is
> current with the latest daily build. If not either of these two
> things, then maybe a strong warning on the downloads page not to use
> the v0.4.1 stable build for Baofeng/Pofung radios.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Jim KC9HI
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