Which features do you want to keep?

[muzkr]

Tell me which features you want to keep and which ones you're willing to give up to get them.

Edit: By "features" I mean the various ENABLE_XXX flags as defined in the CMakePrests.json file.

[ojfd]

Dear muzkr,
Before I post my preferences, It would be useful if you could state in what direction are you going to go with this project.
Do you see the UV-K5 as a hand held device for communicating in the field or more of a toy for experiments?
Best,

[muzkr]

The fundamental purpose of this project is to provide the small number of users who unfortunately purchased the V2 with an alternative option for obtaining useful firmware (in this case, F4HWN), beyond the stock firmware. Future updates for F4HWN will be continuously synchronized until this firmware is no longer needed—for example, when the unique visits to this repository drop to zero. No new features will be provided beyond the F4HWN feature set—therefore, this is not a toy for me.

[ojfd]

In my case the list of needed features is pretty short. The rest can go. But then, I'm using this radio primary as a communication device, not scanner or analyzer. Compatibility with Chirp without using custom Python module would also be a plus.

"ENABLE_FMRADIO": true,
"ENABLE_UART": true,
"ENABLE_VOX": true,
"ENABLE_TX1750": true,
"ENABLE_FLASHLIGHT": true,
"ENABLE_BIG_FREQ": true,
"ENABLE_SMALL_BOLD": true,
"ENABLE_CUSTOM_MENU_LAYOUT": true,
"ENABLE_KEEP_MEM_NAME": true,
"ENABLE_CTCSS_TAIL_PHASE_SHIFT": <-- MAYBE, if options are added in the future - 120; 180; 240 degrees.
"ENABLE_NO_CODE_SCAN_TIMEOUT": true,
"ENABLE_AM_FIX": true,
"ENABLE_SQUELCH_MORE_SENSITIVE": true,
"ENABLE_RSSI_BAR": true,
"ENABLE_COPY_CHAN_TO_VFO": true,
"ENABLE_SCAN_RANGES": true,

For me, the biggest reason of moving away from stock to custom firmware was change to long press buttons. And a few improved techical parameters. This is what egzumer basically achieved. Others moved in all possible directions from that point, sometimes with good results, sometimes with something that borders with pure nonsense.

muzkr, if you want me to do a beta test V2 or check something in stock radios, just let me know. I still have several untouched UV-K5(8) and UV-5R Plus V1 as well as several V2s.

P.S. Judging by comments in several forums, the user base of V2 radios is not that small as it might seem. They're simply waiting for firmware.

[ojfd]

Well, Tog is a father of user interface of Apple as we all know it. It's worth reading what he says there. And, to be honest, I agree to all what he says. His statements read almost like axioms to me.

[muzkr]

hi @ojfd i made some clean up to this thread to delete some subject irrelevant contents - just so you know :)

[ojfd]

Hello muzkr, sorry for late reply, I was AFK for several days. You know, real life, not virtual ;)
What you wrote last time sounds like a very ambitious project. It is not what I was expecting to get involved in, but why not, lets give it a try. We should also move the rest of the discussion away from GitHub, I think.
Cheers,
ojfd

[muzkr]

Hello Sir, an invitation has been extended to you in some way—you should be able to find it...

[muzkr]

@ojfd
Take a loot at

uv-k5-firmware-custom/CMakePresets.json

Line 76 in fe1a2c7

"name": "Custom",

Also the f4hwn.custom.* files in archive_V2/v4.3