CHIRP

ref Bug #6657 - Baofeng UV-5XP : Settings menu is blank

other info from Roger:

1. I mean the "settings" tab in the Chirp program below the"Memories" tab.
2. Model, S/N , and software version :UV-5R, 8Watt, S/N 45R8115656, Software Version BFP3-23
3. put into the vendor & model info on the radio menu: Vender:Baofeng. I tried UV-5R and also tried BF-F8HP and UV-5X. 4 Upload/Download: I "RESET" the radio and then "downloaded" to the computer. Then I "uploaded" to the radio.
4. Chirp version: 2020-06-22
5. Computer Windows 10 Pro.

Hi Roger,

According to the debug.log file, one or more of the squelch threshold settings has a value that is out-of-range. Attach a freshly download from the radio and save to a CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file and attach it to this issue. I will fix the out-or-range settings.

Or if you wish, contact me via email. Send the "image" and I can walk you through fixing it yourself.

Jim KC9HI

Jim,
Thanks for the quick reply and also thanks to Rudolph Gutzerhagen. Attached find the requested .img file. I will let the professional fix the out-of-range settings but would also like to see your "do it yourself instructions". I have never learned Python, maybe its time to start.

73, Roger W8OZY

There is no need to know Python to fix this.

Snipped from the debug.log file...

[2020-06-27 18:31:25,279] chirp.drivers.uv5r - ERROR: Failed to parse settings: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "chirp\drivers\uv5r.pyo", line 1671, in get_settings
  File "chirp\drivers\uv5r.pyo", line 1664, in _get_settings
  File "chirp\settings.pyo", line 83, in __init__
  File "chirp\settings.pyo", line 92, in set_value
InvalidValueError: Value 208 not in range 0-123

We can see the error is caused by a value of 208 where only values from 0-123 are acceptable. Typically the debug.log will show which setting it is, but unfortunately for this one you just have to know that the squelch thresholds are limited to a range of 0-123.

The fix is to click "Help" and then enable the "Enable Developer Functions" setting. Now load the save CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file or download from the radio again. You will now see a "Browser" tab under the "Settings" tab. Drill down to...

Browser -> root -> squelch_new -> uhf

From this uhf page (see "Out-of-range squelch-CHIRP.png") we can see that sql6 has the out-of-range value of 208. It is also obvious that sql7 also has an out-of-range value of 255. Looking at the other values it is easy to deduce that the factory Dec value of sql6 should have been 19 and the Dec value of sql7 should have been 20.

Correct the Dec values for sql6 and sql7 on the uhf page (see "Out-of-range squelch_fixed-CHIRP.png"). Now that the known out-of-range values have been corrected, save the corrected tab to a different file name (don't overwrite the original file, you want to keep it as a backup for the time being).

Load the newly saved file into CHIRP and click the "Settings" tab to see if the settings are now visible (if you did it correctly, they are). If not, the image would have additional out-of-range values that would have to be tracked down by looking at the latest debug.log file. Just repeat the process until all of the out-of-range settings are located and fixed.

At this point you can click "Help" and disable "Enable Developer Functions".

Also, I have attached a corrected "image" file.

Jim KC9HI

Presumably resolved - please let us know if I was too fast closing this ticket.