Bug #1117
open
Added by Travis Augustine over 10 years ago.
Updated about 9 years ago.
Model affected:
(All models)
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Description
Good Evening,
I just programmed my FT-8800R with the latest version (.31) as well as today's daily hoping that it would solve my problem but no luck. It seems to me that the "skip" flag on my memory channels is not being set properly during upload. There is no pattern to it. I have channels programmed into the IMG file for chirp (which I have included) some of them set as skip and when I upload it to the radio they are not matching when I spin the dial through the programmed channels. The strange thing is when I download from the radio, I get the correct channel list and skip flags so I'm not sure what is going on. I have tried a full reset of the radio with no avail.
Thanks for your continued hard work on a great product! I am going to try it again shortly with my Raspberry Pi and see if the same problem happens with the linux version as well.
73 de Travis W9HDG
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I expect this is due to hyper-memory settings. IIRC, that driver sets skip bits either in one of the hyper-memories other than the first, or in different ones depending on the chunk. I don't have easy access to one, so I was never able to get it sorted out.
I guess I am confused. I've never used the 6 hyper memories and I did a reset of the radio which would've cleared out any accidental settings that I would've put into the hyper memory. Are you saying that because of the hyper memory features it is not getting set correctly then? Is there anything I can do to help you get it sorted out (short of sending you my 8800?) I love the program and will use it as is, I don't have that many channels to go through and set the skip flag on, I just would like to help you get it sorted.
I'm saying the driver is broken. The behavior of properly setting the bits is not random, it just appears that way because of how the hyper-memories are laid out and how the driver incorrectly understands them I think.
Thanks for the offer, but it's really something I have to have hands on the radio to resolve in a reasonable amount of time :/
Fair enough. I was confused by your use of the term driver is all. I guess I'll just hope that you get your hands on an 8800 at some point and are able to fix the issue in some future version.
i'm working on implementing driver for vx-170 vhf ht, which surprisingly has nearly same format as ft-x800 series.
Looking at the skips/priority structure, I believe the current order may be backwards, i.e.,
instead of:
u8 skip0:2,
skip1:2,
skip2:2,
skip3:2;
it should be like:
u8 skip3:2,
skip2:2,
skip1:2,
skip0:2;
It will take some time to finish all of this, but i'll likely have some patches for ft7800 driver (which includes 7800/7900/8800/8900 series).
This is a rather annoying bug as every time I reprogram the radio I have to manually edit a ton of frequencies to skip properly.
I'll lend you my 8800 if it helps. How long do you think you would need it for?
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