Re: [chirp_devel] [PATCH] Avoid confusing BTECH UV-5X3 users with UV-5X driver

Avoid confusing BTECH UV-5X3 users with UV-5X driver

Reportedly people that are buying the (new) BTECH UV-5X3 radio are confused and choosing the Baofeng UV-5X model from the menus, which won't work. Many are just outright returning the radio as a result, assuming it's broken.

Since there are a million UV-5R variants and this is likely to get worse, this patch adds a blacklist of similar magic strings from radios that may be confused easily. If we fail to probe the radio that was selected, we can probe for the blacklist magics, and if any reply, raise a specific error to the user indicating that they chose the wrong model.

#4539

Works as expected. Thanks.

Jim KC9HI