flash controller: store ACR/OPTKEYR instead of swallowing them, which is what stopped the factory bootloader from starting
slots over the firmware's own serial protocol (0x0720 family); uvk5_socket/uvk5_testenv so a fresh checkout skips instead of failing; web UI slot table and Multiboot button; quick start, CONTRIBUTING, and stop tracking firmware images and radio dumps
Asked for a speaker and a microphone. The honest answer is that neither exists to
model: on the real radio neither passes through the MCU. Receive audio is demodulated
inside the BK4819 and leaves it as analogue on its AF pin; transmit audio goes from
the microphone into the chip's own ADC. The firmware's entire involvement is
- PA8, the amplifier enable (GPIO_EnableAudioPath, driver/gpio.h:34)
- REG_47, which AF source the chip routes
- REG_64, a level it displays
No audio samples exist anywhere in the MCU's address space, so a device model has
nothing to capture or play, and a browser has nothing to be granted permission for.
Synthesising sound would be inventing data the firmware never produced.
What is real is the firmware's intent, and PA8 states it exactly. TYPE_UVK5_AUDIO
watches that pin and exposes read-only speaker-on; the web UI shows it as a speaker
glyph beside the power state, and /api/status reports it. Read-only deliberately:
letting a test write it would only let the test lie to itself. The page asks for no
audio permission, and a test asserts it never will -- no getUserMedia, no
AudioContext, no <audio>.
Measured: amplifier off while idle in power save, on after SIDE1 engages monitor, and
still on afterwards rather than blipping.
One bug found the hard way, and the stub was the cause. QmpClient.command returns the
unwrapped value and raises on error, but the test stub returned {"return": ...}. So
webui.py was written to unwrap a second time, every test passed, and the live UI
returned 500 with "argument of type 'bool' is not iterable". The stub is now pinned to
the real contract by a test. A stub more forgiving than the real thing is worse than
no stub.
Also stopped swallowing the failure: a bare `except: return None` made the error
indistinguishable from a radio that simply was not making sound, and cost a detour
into looking for a stale process.
mckero