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Bug #10014

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TYT UV-88 Settings tab blank

Added by dashie lag over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Jim Unroe

Category:

Target version:

chirp-legacy

Start date:

08/30/2022

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Chirp Version:

daily

Model affected:

TYT UV-88

Platform:

All

Debug Log:

I read the instructions above:

Description

I have a TYT UV-88 with the "old" CPU, firmware is reporting "MCU BQ1.46".

Gettings infos from the radio works and write for channels, but the Settings tab stays empty.

There is an traceback in the debug log (full file attached) regarding get_settings.

Tried with daily-20220823.

Also attached the .img if useful.

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debug.log (262 KB) debug.log		dashie lag, 08/30/2022 09:20 AM
TYT_TH-UV88_20220830.img (8.82 KB) TYT_TH-UV88_20220830.img		dashie lag, 08/30/2022 09:20 AM
TYT_TH-UV88_20220830(vox_lvl_1).img (8.83 KB) TYT_TH-UV88_20220830(vox_lvl_1).img		Jim Unroe, 08/30/2022 04:49 PM
vox-1-to-7-img.zip (12.4 KB) vox-1-to-7-img.zip		dashie lag, 08/30/2022 07:51 PM
th_uv88_fix_vox_1.py (33.3 KB) th_uv88_fix_vox_1.py		Jim Unroe, 08/30/2022 08:26 PM

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Updated by Jim Unroe over 2 years ago

File TYT_TH-UV88_20220830(vox_lvl_1).img TYT_TH-UV88_20220830(vox_lvl_1).img added
Status changed from New to Feedback

This usually happens when 1 or more settings in the radio are out-of-range. In this case the VOX Level setting is set to 0 and CHIRP only expects/supports values from 1 to 7.

This could be do to TYT updating the radios to include a 0 (or OFF) choice to the VOX Level setting. It could also be a bug in the CHIRP programming that took this long for someone to discover.

You could probably fix this yourself by changing the VOX Level setting to a different value using the radio's built-in menus. Once the VOX Level value is changed in the radio, download the change into CHIRP and see if the Settings tab will now be displayed.

Another "fix" would be to use the CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file that I have attached. It is a duplicate of the "image" that you attached with the VOX Level changed to 1. Load it into CHIRP and then change the VOX Level to whatever value you would like it to be and then upload it to your radio.

Jim KC9HI

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Updated by dashie lag over 2 years ago

Thanks for the modified file, it worked as expected, and reading again from radio too.

I have checked a bit more about the VOX Level.
1 in the radio menu cause blank settings tab
2 too
3 is shown as 1 in chirp
4 as 2
7 as 5

looks like they might have changed something, or a bug somewhere. as long as the VOX level is >=3 reading settings is ok.

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Updated by Jim Unroe over 2 years ago

dashie lag wrote:

Thanks for the modified file, it worked as expected, and reading again from radio too.

I have checked a bit more about the VOX Level.
1 in the radio menu cause blank settings tab
2 too
3 is shown as 1 in chirp
4 as 2
7 as 5

looks like they might have changed something, or a bug somewhere. as long as the VOX level is >=3 reading settings is ok.

Nice detective work. Would you mind creating 7 "image" files and attaching them to this issue. One for each of the radio's VOX Level setting. I don't have a TYT TH-UV88 here, but I do have the Retevis equivalent radio that I can compare them to. That would help with figuring out if it was a change in the radio or a bug in CHIRP.

Thanks in advance,
Jim KC9HI

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