New Model #10648
openSupport for Baofeng UV-17 Pro GPS radio (and related models UV-18/19/20/21/22)
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Description
The Baofeng UV-17 Pro GPS is a newly-released model which has generated quite a bit of interest / discussion on the Facebook Baofeng Owner's Club group. It appears to be a new direction for Baofeng designs, using a full-color screen with full bitmap display. The firmware is apparently flashable, although neither the firmware or the flash utility has surfaced yet.
A manual for a similar model (UV-17P) has been released on various international Baofeng sites and is available from the Facebook group. The CPS 1.2.4 software (which has a dropdown allowing you to select from any of a number of new models in this series) is available at Miklor. Hopefully this means that a number of models can be supported with relative ease after the first one is added to CHIRP.
I can provide two radios for development, and leave one with you long-term for testing of new CHIRP releases. Note that I'm just a radio owner, not a distributor, etc. Others have also said they are willing to loan radios for development, but I'm definitely committing to doing so if needed.
I have made some progress decoding the CPS .dat format for the UV-17 Pro GPS which I can also make available if desired.
Sample AliExpress listing for this radio: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805188334196.html
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Related issues
Updated by Dan Smith 3 months ago
- Related to New Model #10633: Baofeng UV-17 (non GPS version) added
Updated by Jim Unroe about 1 month ago
For anyone interested, here is the CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file that I captured from my UV-17 Pro GPS.
Updated by Jim Unroe about 1 month ago
- File Baofeng_UV-17Pro_20230824.dat Baofeng_UV-17Pro_20230824.dat added
- File Baofeng_UV-17Pro_20230824.img Baofeng_UV-17Pro_20230824.img added
- File Baofeng_UV-17Pro_20230824.txt Baofeng_UV-17Pro_20230824.txt added
As requested, the attached files were just captured from my UV-17Pro GPS that is still in its original factory state.
Updated by Louis Wise about 1 month ago
I have a BF-18H which must be a UV-18 as the CPS for the UV-18 radio works for it. I just use the drop down for the UV in the 1.2.4 CPS. I am willing to loan my radio for Chrip development if needed. I would hope that a Chrip version could work on all of these 5 radios models!
Updated by Ronald Donato 26 days ago
Jim Unroe wrote in #note-3:
As requested, the attached files were just captured from my UV-17Pro GPS that is still in its original factory state.
so, what radio would I select in the Baofeng drop down list?
Updated by John L 3 days ago
- File Default UV-17R (non PRO non GPS) HWv01 FWv1.11.dat Default UV-17R (non PRO non GPS) HWv01 FWv1.11.dat added
I would also appreciate CHIRP support of the UV-17 series radios.
To support this effort, attached is a stock UV-17R .dat file (NON-PRO NON-GPS) pulled from a brand new UV-17R.
This .dat file is pulled from a radio indicating Firmware: V1.11, Hardware: V01.
This is shown on https://www.miklor.com/UV17pro/Various%20Models.php as the "Basic UV-17 (new)" with the white text on Black background.
This was pulled using the "T6UV v1.1.8" codeplug software (CPS).
Updated by Sander van der Wel about 20 hours ago
- File baofeng_uv17Pro.py baofeng_uv17Pro.py added
I am building a driver for this radio. At the moment it only supports the channels and not the radio settings.
There might still be some bugs. Do better backup your channels with cps, before using it.
This is my first driver for Chirp.
Updated by John L about 13 hours ago
Sander, this is great.
I can confirm that your baofeng_uv17Pro.py module also works with my UV-17R basic model running FWv1.11.
It is able to read/write/edit.
Updated by Sander van der Wel about 11 hours ago
Yes it supports the Pro GPS version and the UV17R/L/Pro (whatever they call it..), version with the color screen, black background, white characters version. :-)
Updated by Sander van der Wel about 10 hours ago
- File baofeng_uv17Pro.py baofeng_uv17Pro.py added
I was missing a couple of bytes in the configuration dump.
These are essential for editing bank names, which I am working on now.
Images made with the previous driver, are not compatible with this one.