CHIRP

Is this not a duplicate of #10648 ?

Dan Smith wrote in #note-1:

Is this not a duplicate of #10648 ?

No. It is a separate radio. Unfortunately Baofeng has created a mess by releasing close to 10 different models with the same base name (UV-17) and same external case style but the hardware inside can be quite different for each variant. This has been a real mess some people thinking that they ordered a particular radio from a seller and receive a different style that what they were expecting.
There are at least 3 different OEM programs that are required to be able to program them all. I can see this as a support issue for CHIRP because there is no good way accurately tell the radios apart making it hard to diagnose issues (they could be simply choosing the wrong model even though they are selecting the matching model in CHIRP).

Roger that, just checking.

Ugh.

hi, i have a baofeng uv-17 pro with blue screen. i try to use chirp and wen is reading the radio send a error message like

"syntax error in input: 28 : voicealert:1 ; "

and stop reading.

i use the module in this post.

What incompatibility with older images does it introduce? We try very hard to never break old images, and to my knowledge, never have had to do that. If there's anything we can do to prevent that, we absolutely should...

Oh sorry, this is distinct from the UV-17Pro driver we just merged, so no breakage with released code, is that right?

Right!! This driver is not merged into CHIRP yet.

So many UV-17 versions around. :-S And the issue number looks a bit like to UV-17Pro issue number. :-)
I did some cleaning up on the code and the way the image was created.. Some experience lately with another driver, made me do that.