[chirp_devel] Memory Banks
I have a couple questions about memory banks in chirp. I have a TYT TH-UVF9 radio with memories numbered like this: A1 A2 ... A127 A128
B1 B2 ... B127 B128
Would this be considered two indexed banks with a size of 128? The same radio also has FM Radio memories 1-25. Would that be a third indexed bank?
My Wouxun KG-UV3D also has FM Radio memories. How would I go about adding support for that to the existing chirp driver?
Thank you.
-- Rob Campbell KG6HUM
I have a couple questions about memory banks in chirp. I have a TYT TH-UVF9 radio with memories numbered like this: A1 A2 ... A127 A128
B1 B2 ... B127 B128
Would this be considered two indexed banks with a size of 128? The same radio also has FM Radio memories 1-25. Would that be a third indexed bank?
No, banks in CHIRP are bins to which memories can be assigned, which doesn't match the concept in your radio. Your radio does it the way Kenwood radios do (which I suspect is a function of the fact that those radios all seem to stem from a stolen Kenwood design). I would recommend you just number the memories 1-256, and then use the "special memory" functionality to add the FM channels as FM01..FM25.
My Wouxun KG-UV3D also has FM Radio memories. How would I go about adding support for that to the existing chirp driver?
Same as above: add them as "special memories". Look at some of the more complete Icom drivers for examples.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com wrote:
I have a couple questions about memory banks in chirp. I have a TYT TH-UVF9 radio with memories numbered like this: A1 A2 ... A127 A128
B1 B2 ... B127 B128
Would this be considered two indexed banks with a size of 128? The same radio also has FM Radio memories 1-25. Would that be a third indexed
bank?
No, banks in CHIRP are bins to which memories can be assigned, which doesn't match the concept in your radio. Your radio does it the way Kenwood radios do (which I suspect is a function of the fact that those radios all seem to stem from a stolen Kenwood design). I would recommend you just number the memories 1-256, and then use the "special memory" functionality to add the FM channels as FM01..FM25.
If the memories are numbered 1-256, would there be a way to designate that 1-128 are in one "bank" and 129-256 are in another? The radio will not let you access memories in a different bank, so to access those memories you have to perform a key sequence to switch to the other bank. Someone may be confused when they can't access any memory above 128. I will take a look at the "special memory" functionality for the FM radio memories.
My Wouxun KG-UV3D also has FM Radio memories. How would I go about adding support for that to the existing chirp driver?
Same as above: add them as "special memories". Look at some of the more complete Icom drivers for examples.
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
Thank you.
-- Rob Campbell KG6HUM
If the memories are numbered 1-256, would there be a way to designate that 1-128 are in one "bank" and 129-256 are in another?
No, not currently. Having two channels called "3" is kinda dumb, IMHO, so I'm rather disinclined to make a change to the core to support something like this.
If you feel strongly about it, you could do what I do for the dual-vfo radios, which ends up with two tabs at the top, one for each vfo. It looks as if two files are open, but only one is. I'm not crazy about it as a solution, and I'm not sure it's worth it in this case, but it is an option.
Look at radios with "has_sub_devices=True" in features, and open one of the images in tests/images to check it out.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com wrote:
No, not currently. Having two channels called "3" is kinda dumb, IMHO, so I'm rather disinclined to make a change to the core to support something like this.
I understand. I just wish there was an easy way to prepend a bank to the channel numbers, so it could be A3 and B3. I believe that is the way they are displayed in the official TYT software. Is there a way to add any notes or documentation to a driver that the user can access?
-- Rob Campbell KG6HUM
I understand. I just wish there was an easy way to prepend a bank to the channel numbers, so it could be A3 and B3. I believe that is the way they are displayed in the official TYT software. Is there a way to add any notes or documentation to a driver that the user can access?
Not currently, but I'd support adding such a thing for sure.
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