CHIRP

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!

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?

Ronald Donato wrote in #note-5:

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?

None. The UV-17Pro GPS isn't supported by CHIRP.

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.

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. :-)

Well done! I was having a poke at this one as well, but miss-placed my programming cable. Was stumped with the encryption and just wondering how you figured it out? Mines badged a UV17 Pro V2, but looking at the code, the programming sequence seems the same so I assume it'll work (i'll confirm if I can find my cable again).

This is working with Baofeng 18 i-Black Pro Max!

I confirm that the driver works with Baofeng UV 18 i-black Pro Max.
I will try changing all settings and write them to have a full test. Only bank's page's blank, but I suppose this model do not support them, thus it's expected.
Further details after the test; by now super thanks! :D

Confirmed working for UV-17Pro Basic (Black Background on display) https://www.miklor.com/UV17pro/Various%20Models.php

Unable to communicate with UV-17 Basic, older model with blue background. https://www.miklor.com/UV17pro/Various%20Models.php

@Russell Leu, try the driver at issue 10865, for the older model.

Any program to modify the firmware of the uv-17 pro....can the findware be updated the same as the quan sheng equipment? ****

Sander van der Wel wrote in #note-17:

I fixed a bug in the "Send ID delay", setting (which is also a bug in CPS) and in "Menu quit timer"

I have both a UV-17L and the UV-17 Pro GPS and your module reads from both of them. Well done so far!

Can confirm working on UV-17L. I have the UV-17M model on order, which has additional receive band in the 300MHz range, and a voice scrambler. When it arrives I will test and may take a crack at adding support for it to the contributed module.

Adding - when you hover over the red is displays "can only concatenate str(not "bytes") to str"

Apologies, I missed the first 2 lines:

TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str
[2023-11-15 01:06:13,110] chirp.wxui.memedit - ERROR: Failed to load memory 998 as error because: can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str
[2023-11-15 01:06:13,110] chirp.wxui.common - ERROR: Failed to run get_memory(999, )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "chirp\wxui\common.py", line 280, in do_radio
File "E:\SDRadio\Baofeng UV-17 Pro GPS\CHIRP module from issue 10648\baofeng_uv17Pro.py", line 1320, in get_memory
if self._is_txinh(_mem):
File "E:\SDRadio\Baofeng UV-17 Pro GPS\CHIRP module from issue 10648\baofeng_uv17Pro.py", line 1301, in _is_txinh
raw_tx += _mem.txfreq[i].get_raw()
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str
[2023-11-15 01:06:13,110] chirp.wxui.memedit - ERROR: Failed to load memory 999 as error because: can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str

I assume that was directed at me, but yes: https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp

Can I drop this file into the Windows filesystem anywhere to test? Or does it require an application update? I just unpacked my UV-17R Non-GPS and wanted to give it a run!

See LoadingTestModules

Thanks Dan!!

Just tested, did a full backup from CPS and then did a stock download file for backup.

Grabbed a copy of my F8HP channel list and did a copy/paste just to see if it'd work.

Happy to report is was FLAWLESS and worked straight away ! Nice work on this!

@kkds I am working on passing all the tests for a pull request. Still some work to do. :-)

We can discuss that stuff on the PR itself. The instructions for makesupported are in the PR instructions and if you view the fails of the PR checks it should be obvious. I'll review after work and make some comments (there).