[chirp_devel] [PATCH] [New Model] Support for the BTECH Mobile Radios, fixes issue #3015

[Dan Smith]

> This is to support a single radio. I believe all we have to do is
> switch back to the way I had it originally. Add the "ident"
> fingerprint for this one-of-a-kind radio to the WACCOM/MINI-8900 radio
> class (since that it sends the "magic" that this radio needs and have
> the user select that vendor/model combination to program that
> one-of-kind radio.

Does the radio send a magic during the exchange but just not part of the
image or something? Or does the software have any "identify" or "test
communication" function that might cause the radio to barf up an identity?

If you have to, you could always stash something in the image. That
would give you something you can key off of later, to tell which radio
they used to download with, before you start your upload. If it's purely
a detecting-the-radio-model-from-the-file problem, then that will work,
assuming there's nothing else to go on. It's not as nice, but better
than nothing, and something we should get in place early before people
start generating images without that extra data in it.

--Dan