CHIRP

Hi Marshall,

When you say settings do you mean frequency, tone, offset, power, etc
Or do you mean Voice Prompt / Language / Scan / Vox ?

I might have the same issue as you but on a Radioddity GA-2S

GA-2S,

I am referring to the "Settings" menu which changes the Voice Prompt, Language, Scan, VOX, etc. Until I used the Baofeng software on these new BF-888s radios, this menu was completely blank after downloading from the radio. There was no text in the box, nothing at all to click on. After using Baofeng's software to adjust some of these settings (like language, which was set to Chinese on these radios)and uploading them back to the radio, CHIRP magically was able to see the setting and populated the menu as normal. However, CHIRP will not upload any changes to the settings to these radios.

Marshall

Hi Marshall,

I have seen this behavior in CHIRP, when a setting is "out of range" (as specified by the driver) then various options/settings go missing but there's no popup or warning about such events.

Do you have a link to the software that you used to program the 888 radio? I'd like to check the serial data going out over the wire with the radios I have here.
If you don't have a link, would you be willing to test a modification I have made to CHIRP to solve this problem? (Currently awaiting dev feedback on the change but it's quite simple)

Tony

I should have stated that I have seen the empty settings window before and that the "modification" I have made to CHIRP is not to solve that issue but to solve the issue of settings not taking affect on the radio.

Tony

Hi Guys,
just to add and confirm I am having the same problem with 2 BF 888s I have just purchased . Read is fine but unable to write back to radios, would be interested in update . currently using the software in link provided .

Dave.

Thanks for the links Marshall.
Dave, thanks for also posting back on that package working for your 888s as well.

I have a patch submitted to the developers and awaiting feedback. To the best of my knowledge, there is some hesitation because we don't have enough data points on older 888 models to know if there are any side effects of my proposed change.

Hi Marshall and David. It looks like my patch was accepted and CHIRP has updated. Looking forward to hearing from you on if your issues are resolved.

Tony

@GA-2S,

Thanks for the patch! It successfully allowed setting changes to be uploaded/saved to my radios.

Marshall

Cheers Guys.

Dave.