Radioddity GS-5B Software

Some pages have white text on a white background. That’s fun. Others leave you scratching your head. After enough trial and error, somehow I got it to work and make changes on the radio.

There are 2 “panels”to connect the radio. Hit the uppermost panel and it connects right away. I don’t know why they don’t show a better separation. The only problem I found was I have to force quit the app and restart it to get the “write” to show up. Otherwise the keypad won’t go down. They could also change the color of some of the text fields to make it easier to read. 8Especially when saving.

The app connected very quickly when I first got the radio yesterday. It was working tonight and I made several channel additions. Now the Bluetooth will not connect. It just says updating for about 30 seconds and then a link comes up that says Update. The MAC of the radio shows on the iPhone screen. The MAC disappears when I turn Bluetooth off on the radio and reappears when I turn it back on. I rebooted my phone. I deleted the app and and reinstalled. Neither charged the behavior. Before tonight it was working but there were some minor issues. Now the app is unusable.

The app works. It’s clunky for sure, and not exactly easy to figure out without some help from YouTube videos, but I haven’t had the connectivity issues others have experienced. I have had one incomplete upload causing my radio to not receive transmissions as I had set it up to be a scanner for a race event. Good thing I had a backup plan. Ultimately, I ended up using CHIRP to really dig into it and discovered a lot of channels I had programmed in the app had not been programmed at all or were corrupted. I had to reset the radio to factory settings before I could fix anything in CHIRP. Long story short: use CHIRP if you plan on making lots of changes at once. It’s the only way to be sure everything is set correctly.

This app is a waste of time. Does not work.

Version 1.5 is way better than the previous version. Thanks for fixing it.

Absolutely terrible software. I tried 3 methods: The iPhone Bluetooth doesn’t connected, the Windows 10 software video doesn’t match the control panel options and it doesn’t have a Mac OS download. I regret buying this radio- unable to program using any app. BTW- I’ve spent hours combing through YouTube videos. The software linked -TestFlight had great reviews. TestFlight has been discontinued for the new software that has 1.5 reviews.

This is a great app that communicates with the radio flawlessly. That being said, the data going into the radio quite often does not interpret as expected. The result is a radio that is not accurately programmed with the data you input into the phone. It’s my understanding the app used to work really well so what has happened? Please fix the app so it can continue to program the radio. The concept is great and makes programming so simple. Thank you.

I REALLY like the radio- and being able to program it VERY quickly on the fly with my phone is awesome. BUT…. The app needs some more fine tuning.

The radio feels solid. This is my first radio, but not my first experience in app development. It’s in really rough shape guys. I will have to return this probably.