CHIRP

The issue stems from the fact that the memory address where Stan's version of the radio stores the OEM data appears to contain some characters outside the supported ascii charset. This may be a sign that the actual memory for Stan's older radio version, UV8DV1.01, may have changed compared to the newer sample version, UV8DV1.05, checked into the tree.

A patch is being submitted which addresses one issue where the UV8D driver was not decoding strings from memory, but rather was treating them as raw memory - this will at least prevent the app from attempting to display the raw memory as a string (which it can not do in cases where the string contains null characters, etc..)

Somebody with access to these radios may wish to compare the memory between the various versions and attempt to verify the correct structure. The patch will at the least prevent the exception from being thrown, and thus allow for the ui to construct itself properly.

Stan's Version: UV8DV1.05

There does not appear to be an issue with the CHIRP UI, and it did not appear to work in previous versions either as the exception thrown would have prevented from any settings being constructed by the settings editor.

Just installed the daily build for 6th March, and the settings tab DOES appear :-) I did not have to enable developer functions, it worked first time.

Many, many thanks,

Regards,

Stan.