CHIRP

Further investigation show that the radio will not accept any memory group as valid until you assign a memory slot to that group. I previously believed that if you make one assignment, that will cause all groups to be recognized.

I uncovered another bug in how memory group settings are saved, but will put that in a different bug report.

Still further investigation shows inconsistent appearance of the bug in my previous update. Sometimes you need to use the keypad to assign a channel for each memory group and sometimes doing it just once will be enough for all groups to be recognized.

Are you working on trying to find the magic bit? It will be a week or so before I can take a look at it.

I typically use a script that does a hexdump of each image, followed by a diff -u, which is usually effective. You might also try vbindiff.

This problem is still present and seems to have become more complicated. I just now uploaded a setup that contains just one channel and assigned that one channel to MG1. Memory groups didn't work. I manually assigned channel 1 to MG1. Groups still don't work. Assigned it to MG2. Now groups work, but there's a bizarre side-effect. In MG1 and MG2 are lots of old channels from previous uploads. Shouldn't CHIRP completely blank those memories too?

I just downloaded the software for Mac for the first time and am having this exact issue with multiple weird permutations. I know this is a long running issue. Is this a fixable bug or any good workarounds?