I’ve got one of these radios on order, but notice that Jim Unroe has uploaded a portmon capture on the open issue so thought I’d start having a look.

Some caveats, I’m just reading source; I’m not a python programmer; and I don’t have the radio in my hands yet.  I’m just trying to get ahead of the game!

However, it seems that it doesn’t follow the protocol I see in the other TYT radio drivers.  It looks like the ICOM CIV clone standard, as described in icf.py.  I also found this reference online which corresponds with the file - http://www.oocities.org/blakkekatte/clone/icomclonedoc.pdf

However, the capture shows that the after the clone retrieval command the software starts downloading blocks instead of the whole memory (this is from Jim’s capture)

189         0.00012079        TH-UV88.exe      IRP_MJ_WRITE  ProlificSerial0     SUCCESS               Length 12: FE FE EE EF EB 00 00 00 00 00 20 FD           

281         0.00000316        TH-UV88.exe      IRP_MJ_READ    ProlificSerial0     SUCCESS               Length 45: FE FE EF EE E4 00 00 00 00 00 20 B8 CD A4 02 B8 CD A4 02 FF 0F FF 0F 00 00 04 20 20 20 20 20 20 78 17 DE 00 78 17 DE 00 FF 0F FF C3 FD          

283         0.00018276        TH-UV88.exe      IRP_MJ_WRITE  ProlificSerial0     SUCCESS               Length 12: FE FE EE EF EB 00 00 00 20 00 20 FD           

375         0.00000355        TH-UV88.exe      IRP_MJ_READ    ProlificSerial0     SUCCESS               Length 45: FE FE EF EE E4 00 00 00 20 00 20 0F 00 00 04 20 20 20 20 20 20 E4 03 08 01 E4 03 08 01 FF 0F FF 0F 00 00 06 20 20 20 20 20 20 A8 83 FD                

This command – EB – is not listed anywhere I can find, but it looks like it is asking for a block of memory at a time.

This will be enough, I think, for me to read the memory when I get the radio – so this is a style question.  Should I base my attempts off the icf.py -  or because this is an alternate implementation perhaps I should copy it into a new file specifically for the TH-UV88 until it is clear if other radios use this style of communication?

I’m guessing the clone out will similarly be block based when I get the radio.

Best wishes

James