CHIRP

My cable works on UV-5R but not on BF-888s.
The cable works fine on Baofeng software.

After checking the source code, I make a patch to make Chirp works on my fake PL2303 cable

diff -r 37a6a6d6f425 chirp/drivers/h777.py
--- a/chirp/drivers/h777.py    Fri Jul 17 20:17:29 2020 -0700
+++ b/chirp/drivers/h777.py    Fri Aug 07 08:12:02 2020 +0800
@@ -111,12 +111,12 @@

     original_timeout = serial.timeout
     try:
-        serial.write("\x02")
         # At least one version of the Baofeng BF-888S has a consistent
         # ~0.33s delay between sending the first five bytes of the
         # version data and the last three bytes. We need to raise the
         # timeout so that the read doesn't finish early.
         serial.timeout = 0.5
+        serial.write("\x02")
         ident = serial.read(8)
     except:
         raise errors.RadioError("Error communicating with radio")
@@ -182,11 +182,11 @@

     original_timeout = serial.timeout
     try:
-        serial.write(cmd + data)
         # Time required to write data blocks varies between individual
         # radios of the Baofeng BF-888S model. The longest seen is
         # ~0.31s.
         serial.timeout = 0.5
+        serial.write(cmd + data)
         if serial.read(1) != CMD_ACK:
             raise Exception("No ACK")
     except: