[chirp_devel] Baofeng/5RM Power-On Image

[Henry Grasman]

Yep,

Sounds like a pain... I can live with using the other SW for this. And I
sort of answered #2 myself and it didn't look promising, so extra inclined
to give up.

 Thanks for the advice!

-H

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 7:21 PM Dan Smith via chirp_devel <
chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> > 0) These are "clone mode" radios, and I don't see a change in memory
> after changing welcome screens with BF's sw. Would that be CHIRP
> ignoring/not reading the relevant memory section? Or is there precedent for
> baofengs to have settings that are not part of the normal clone?
>
> Yep, probably a different memory region, which is going to make it
> somewhat uncomfortable to make this happen. If the driver can be extended
> to download both regions at the same time (and in a way that won't break
> the current image format, then it's possible.
>
> > Probably for Dan:
> > 1) Would it be accepted for CHIRP to have this feature? Is it absent for
> some reason, or simply because nobody has implemented it? If I were to be
> the first to implement this, how would you like to architect it into the
> SW? Part of the driver? New functions for UI?
>
> The only way I can see this happening is to make it a "setting". Basically
> a new setting type of "image" or something, but then the UI will have to be
> extended to provide a way to let you choose an image. That's going to allow
> the user to open a PNG, JPG, etc and then I assume the driver is going to
> have to use something like PIL to access the pixel data to encode it in a
> suitable way for the radio. It's not going to be an easy thing.
>
> > 2) I have reverse engineered the encoding and some header info for the
> image write. Where should I look for details on the existing reverse
> engineered protocols for this device? I am hoping my answer to question 0
> is "chirp is probably just not touching the memory we care about" and I
> only have to make minor changes, but this info will help in any case.
>
> I'm not sure what you're asking here, but maybe someone else does.
>
> > 3) Does anyone have other radios that have similar features to consider
> while designing how this will work?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> > I have plenty to keep me busy between work and life, so I appreciate any
> advice and help that might make this easier.
>
> I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I've never (ever) felt like my life
> would be enriched by having a custom boot screen on my radio. That said, I
> don't have wallpapers on my desktop or phone (or ... my walls) either.
> IMHO, this is going to be a lot of work for very little functional gain, so
> my (humorous) "advice" would be to focus on something else :P
>
> --Dan
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