CHIRP

Have you tried the current A36Plus selection? What doesn't work. Attach the debug log. If you can't get a suitable debug.log from the current selection, then there is little hope that developing support will be possible without a volunteer developer such as myself having physical access to a A36Plus 8W radio and the official OEM software. It is possible that someone else might, but I won't be purchasing one to do the development.

Thank you for reaching out with your suggestion，Jim. I haven't yet tried the current A36Plus selection in CHIRP, but I'll definitely give it a go and see how it works. The main issue I've encountered is when connecting the Talkpod A36plus 8W version with the provided programming cable to CHIRP, it shows an error saying "Radio Returned Unknown Identification Strings."

I'll work on gathering a suitable debug log based on the current selection and share it for further analysis. I understand the challenge without having physical access to the A36Plus 8W radio and the OEM software. I appreciate your advice and will keep you updated on any progress.

Roy Wang wrote in #note-2:

The main issue I've encountered is when connecting the Talkpod A36plus 8W version with the provided programming cable to CHIRP, it shows an error saying "Radio Returned Unknown Identification Strings."

Which is what I would expect. The debug.log will contain the information that would be necessary to add it.

I’m having the same issue. I believe Bug #11078 has a debug log attached.
Thank you for your work to get this resolved.

Mike Gassman wrote in #note-4:

I’m having the same issue. I believe Bug #11078 has a debug log attached.
Thank you for your work to get this resolved.

Thanks for the heads up, Mike. I have the logs and will be doing all of the development here on this ticket.

Thanks Jim.

The new model has 55 items in the menu vs. 54 in the earlier model, and one menu item location has changed.

• In the earlier model, CH-NAME was at menu location 19; in the new model it has been moved to menu location 13 (the other menu items between those slots moved accordingly).
• In the new model, a new menu item ANI FUNCTION was added as menu item 51 (options are OFF, ON); the items above that moved up one slot.

The Version info for the earlier model is
TalkpodA36Plus
Firmware:V1.24

The Version info for the new model is
A36Plus 10W
Firmware:V1.4

Jim,

Was that the information you needed?

Mike

Mike Gassman wrote in #note-8:

Jim,

Was that the information you needed?

Mike

Probably, but not exactly what I am looking for. I am waiting on someone to return an edited version of my menu list that exactly matches this new radio.

Jim

Based on menu list supplied by Mike, the settings appear to be largely the same.

Looking at the TalkPod website's download page, it looks like they are keeping the firmware for the 5w models separate from the 8w models. So it would seem to be a good idea to keep the models separate in CHIRP.

I have attached a test driver module to use for testing the downloads from the 8w version (Vendor: Talkpod / Model: A36Plus_8w). The ability to upload is currently disabled . Please test to see if downloading works. If it does, do your best to compare the radio's settings to those in CHIRP to see that they are the same and/or make sense. Report any issues and/or successes.

How to use the test driver module: LoadingTestModules

Jim,

I tried to load the test driver module but got the error message "No modules found in issue 11067"

Mike

Jim,

It downloaded fine. Looks like you’ve got a workable solution.

I have never used it and don’t know what the ANI function does. However, on the 8w radio, there is an ANI FUNCTION on/OFF item and an ANI NAME field (which is empty). On the Chirp Settings page, there is just an ANI item and it is set to 16.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike Gassman wrote in #note-14:

Jim,

It downloaded fine. Looks like you’ve got a workable solution.

I have never used it and don’t know what the ANI function does. However, on the 8w radio, there is an ANI FUNCTION on/OFF item and an ANI NAME field (which is empty). On the Chirp Settings page, there is just an ANI item and it is set to 16.

Thanks,

Mike

I forgot to request that you attache a *.img file from your radio so I can review it prior to enabling uploading. Thanks.

Jim,

Will do. I’ll let you know if I run into anything.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike Gassman wrote in #note-18:

Jim,

Will do. I’ll let you know if I run into anything.

Thanks,

Mike

Seems to be running okay. Thanks.

Mike Gassman wrote in #note-19:

Mike Gassman wrote in #note-18:

Jim,

Will do. I’ll let you know if I run into anything.

Thanks,

Mike

Seems to be running okay. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. I will try to submit a patch today for including it in CHIRP.

Thank you.