CHIRP

I'm having the same Problem on a few newly bought bf-888s and an original Baofeng cable
the BF-888s Software from http://www.miklor.com/BF888/software/BF-888S_v1.05.exe runs fine with old and new bf-888s's (I now just read the config from an old one and was able to program the new ones without any problems. Chirp (actual version 20190925) only runs with the older ones....

I had the same problem with a pair of BF-888S radios.

But while testing i found that the command line utility, chirpc, could download the memory from the radio without problems.

When looking for differences in the code, i found that serial.Serial objects with different read timeouts are used. While chirpc uses a timeout of 0.5 s, chirpw uses timeouts of only 0.25 s.

By applying this patch which changes chirpw to use the same longer read timeouts, downloading and uploading BF-888S configs starts working:

diff -r b5589aa94c1e chirp/ui/mainapp.py
--- a/chirp/ui/mainapp.py       Thu Dec 05 21:14:35 2019 +1100
+++ b/chirp/ui/mainapp.py       Wed Dec 11 20:50:57 2019 +0100
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@
             ser = serial.Serial(port=settings.port,
                                 baudrate=rclass.BAUD_RATE,
                                 rtscts=rclass.HARDWARE_FLOW,
-                                timeout=0.25)
+                                timeout=0.5)
             ser.flushInput()
         except serial.SerialException, e:
             d = inputdialog.ExceptionDialog(e)
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@
             ser = serial.Serial(port=settings.port,
                                 baudrate=radio.BAUD_RATE,
                                 rtscts=radio.HARDWARE_FLOW,
-                                timeout=0.25)
+                                timeout=0.5)
             ser.flushInput()
         except serial.SerialException, e:
             d = inputdialog.ExceptionDialog(e)

Nicklas Lindgren!

Thanks for advice about chirpc.

I tried CLI tool (chirpc) with my OLD stations. It works.
But when I tried CLI tool (chirpc) with my new stations - no reaction. Here is what it produces:

ERROR: No response from radio

In any case, thanks for the advice. Maybe I'll try other timeouts.
And by the way, how to apply this patch for chirpw?