CHIRP

Justin,

I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't just a UV-82 or UV-5R in a different case. Baofeng is well known for this sort of repackaging. Try the both models and report back.

Jim KC9HI

Michael or Justin,

Use the attached uv5r.py file just to see if it will read the data from your radios. Here's how you do it.

1. save the uv5r.py file to where you normally save your CHIRP .img files
2. click Help and enable "Enable Developer Functions"
3. click File then click Load Module then load the uv5r.py file saved in step 1

Once the module is loaded, then download from the radio using the UV-5R model selection. If you are successful at downloading from your radio, then save the download to a .img file and attach it here so I can examine it.

Loading this driver does not alter your CHIRP installation. If you close CHIRP, then you will have to load the module again to do further testing.

Jim KC9HI

Ok, attaching the file.

I did also note that the radio rebooted after I got the "Incorrect 'Model' selected" dialog.

Hope that this helps.

Emil

Aha! I added "BFT515" to the "BASETYPE_UV5R" array in the driver file, and now it seems to work. :)

I cloned the radio and saved the result with "Save as". Hope that this is the image you requested. Attaching it here.

Thanks!

Emil

Sorry for spam, but here is the debug.log when the clone succeed.
The radio does also restart after the clone is done.

Thanks

Emil

Emil,
Perfect. I'll work on getting a patch submitted this weekend.
Thanks for the help.
Jim KC9HI

Hi again Jim,

Many thanks for your help. You are right about that the radios has 3 power levels.
I had to make some changes today however, but I can't get the latest daily builds to work.

I have tried both 20150702 and 20150623 with the same result. I'm just getting "ERROR: Radio did not respond" trying with both UV-5R and BF-F8HP.
I'm also getting some python tracebacks however that I suppose can be the problem.

I'm attaching the debug-log here (Started chirp with "python2 ./chirpw --log ./20150702.log -v").

The 20150607 version works fine with the UV-5R driver anyways.

Thanks.

Emil

Oh, yeah you where right. I must have mixed the debug-logs in some way. My bad.

The radio is using a new motorola-like multi-pin programming cable, so I'm pretty sure that there are no connection problems.
I have also tried the following:

1. Download from radio with 20150607. Works fine. Closing application
2. Started 20150702, does not work.
3. Started 20150607, still working.

But as I said last time, I think the Python tracebacks are the most interesting.

Thanks.

Emil

Emil,

The patch has been submitted. The next daily build should allow you to use the BF-F8HP model selection.

In the mean time, to get support for 3 power levels, you should be able to use the 20150702 daily build and choose the Vendor: Intek and Model: KT-980HP.

Jim KC9HI

fixed in CHIRP daily-20150814

Jim KC9HI