Hi Jim, thanks for getting back to me. I have based the AR-F8 driver off the existing KG-UV8D driver, so I will go back and see that I have missed. (I was wondering if I missed something obvious as 1026.6 is not a tone supported by the radio so I'm not suprised it isn't in the list...)

As for the driver, it should have been an attachment to the first mail in this thread - if not, please let me know how to post.

As an aside, I'm developing using Python 3.9 and was wondering if there are difficulties with that? I still haven't gotten to the bottom of the 'Radio tried to write the wrong type of data to the SerialNone pipe' test as was wondering if it is a Python 2/3 thing?

Thanks again,

Mark

On Wed, 4 May 2022 at 02:49, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,

On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 7:42 PM Mark Leyden via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
> Chirp img file for testing. (Still work to be done, but I am looking for guidance) Currently fails tests with:
>
> Abbree AR-F8 CopyAll CRASHED: `1026.6' is not in valid list: [67.0, 69.3, 71.9, 74.4, 77.0, 79.7, 82.5, 85.4, 88.5, 91.5, 94.8, 97.4, 100.0, 103.5, 107.2, 110.9, 114.8, 118.8, 123.0, 127.3, 131.8, 136.5, 141.3, 146.2, 151.4, 156.7, 159.8, 162.2, 165.5, 167.9, 171.3, 173.8, 177.3, 179.9, 183.5, 186.2, 189.9, 192.8, 196.6, 199.5, 203.5, 206.5, 210.7, 218.1, 225.7, 229.1, 233.6, 241.8, 250.3, 254.1, 56.0, 57.0, 58.0, 59.0, 60.0, 61.0, 62.0, 62.5, 63.0, 64.0]
> Abbree AR-F8 BruteForce CRASHED: `1025.9' is not in valid list: [67.0, 69.3, 71.9, 74.4, 77.0, 79.7, 82.5, 85.4, 88.5, 91.5, 94.8, 97.4, 100.0, 103.5, 107.2, 110.9, 114.8, 118.8, 123.0, 127.3, 131.8, 136.5, 141.3, 146.2, 151.4, 156.7, 159.8, 162.2, 165.5, 167.9, 171.3, 173.8, 177.3, 179.9, 183.5, 186.2, 189.9, 192.8, 196.6, 199.5, 203.5, 206.5, 210.7, 218.1, 225.7, 229.1, 233.6, 241.8, 250.3, 254.1, 56.0, 57.0, 58.0, 59.0, 60.0, 61.0, 62.0, 62.5, 63.0, 64.0]
> Abbree AR-F8 Edges PASSED: All tests
> Abbree AR-F8 Settings PASSED: All tests
> Abbree AR-F8 Banks SKIPPED: Banks not supported
> Abbree AR-F8 Detect PASSED: All tests
> Abbree AR-F8 Clone FAILED: Radio tried to write the wrong type of data to the SerialNone pipe.
>

The CHIRP Supported Radio Models list shows the Abbree AR-F8 as
already supported.

ABBREE
* AR-F8 (use Wouxun KG-UV8D)

So I would suggest that you look at the KG-UV8D driver to see how it
handles the CTCSS tones.

Where can your AR-F8 driver be obtained?

Jim KC9HI