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CS7000 M17 and CS7000 M17 PLUS Status
Summary and Implications of Status
The CS7000 M17 final beta version is almost finished. You can load the latest from GitHub any time you wish. I will try to maintain a copy of the latest on my website.
The CS7000 M17 PLUS hardware will be shipped to us sometime next week. We will ship soon after. The radio will ship with the DMR and Analog firmware but this version will not have the standard paging firmware that Amateurs do not normally use anyway. We will include the paging in a future version soon after the radio is shipped.
The M17 firmware is about a month away for the M17 CS7000 PLUS.
Hardware & FIrmware Status from CoValue (Manufacturer)
Thanks for your new order!
Do you need 2-tone/MDC/DTMF for CS7000 M17 PLUS? If no need this time, we could ship your 200 pcs PLUS early next week as the engineer has not finished those parts.
Note: "Thanks for your new order" means I ordered accessories for the radio besides the radios themselves.
I told him to ship the radios without the paging firmware.
M17 FIrmware Status from Silvano (M17 software guru)
Hello Jerry,
I have to kindly ask to enhance your calm [1], thank you. You sent the
previous email on Saturday 12/10: I don't have my phone connected to my
email account and I rarely use the computer on the weekends. In any case
I'd have sent you a status update in these days (the original plan was
to do it yesterday).
This said, the current situation is:
- the breaking changes introduced in the codebase to support the CS7000
have been merged to master;
- the code for the CS7000 BSP is now publicly available on the OpenRTX
github repository in a dedicated branch [2];
- I plan to make a new tagged release in the immediate future, once the
remaining major bugs on the CS7000 are solved (lagging UI when M17 voice
is being reproduced);
Regarding the CS7000 Plus, I already started working on the RTOS
porting/BSP for the STM32H7 and, if everything goes well, I should be
able to have a firmware image within a month. In the meantime, I'll send
you intermediate firmware updates whenever I reach meaningful
development points. Apart from the USB support, which will require
bringing in the tinyusb library, the "hot spots" of the development work
are the ADC and DAC driver: on the rest, I'm not expecting particular
surprises.
In the meantime there is some work ongoing on the OpenRTX-companion
tool, which will allow to flash the firmware and do backup, restore and
data management on the external flash. For the codeplug part, there is
an RFC currently open on the OpenRTX website repository [3]: the plan is
to close it soon and adapt the codeplug code to the new format as well
as start mainlining the rtxlink implementation, that is the backend
protocol used for memory and CPS management. Considering the overall
development, I want to close the porting for the CS7000 Plus as soon as
possible and then concentrate all the efforts in finishing the CPS part
once and for all the platforms by the end of the year. The OpenRTX
codeplug format comes both in binary and json format, which should
facilitate the development of third-party tools for codeplug creation
and editing. There is also some work ongoing at the qdmr project in
order to support the OpenRTX codeplug format, but currently I don't know
at which point the development is.
Best regards,
Silvano Seva.
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