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[chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b8
by Dan Smith 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hi all, I just posted 0.1.8b8 which I hope we can call the official 0.1.8. I didn't add import/export of the special memories because it's going to require some additional logic in the actual import process than I really want to do at this point. Since that's more GUI-related, I want to push that off to 0.1.9. The changes from b7 are: - Improved Linux packaging - CSV file includes bank letter instead of number Linux users will likely want to use the new install procedure. To do so, grab and unpack the tar file as usual. Then do: $ cd chirp-0.1.8b8 $ python setup.py install This should put an icon in your applications menu (under HamRadio) and install CHIRP to the regular system locations. I'd appreciate some reports from linux users on what distro they're using and about any problems they're facing. Thanks! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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Re: [chirp_users] csv format
by David Tilson 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

> Correct, the ID800, IC2200, and IC?82 radios will only accept > uppercase characters. I thought that might be the case with a few of the radios, but didn't know which models. I'll update the wiki later to reflect this. > The individual radio drivers should coerce them to upper > case, but I'm not confident that they all do that in a > consistent manner :D This might be a pain, but is it worth getting CHIRP to force a case change to upper case for those specific radios? Cheers, davidt

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b7
by David Tilson 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

G'day Dan, > I just posted b7 with the following changes: All of this testing is on my IC-92AD... > - Fixed up setting bank back to None Confirmed. Just a thought... If the Bank is set back to "none" is it worth forcing the Bank Index to "-1" so that the number is available for reuse. Currently it looks like you can only set the Bank Index back to "-1" manually. It may also make things cleaner if you sort the list based on Bank Index in the GUI. BTW, I worked out yesterday why the Bank was only displaying as "A-", "B-", etc and the same with the drop down Bank list when the field was selected, instead of just showing "A", "B", etc in the GUI. It was simply that the default width for the Bank field in the GUI was truncating any Bank names that had been entered. I should have checked that earlier, but simply widening that field in the GUI showed the additional information. Having the GUI display the Bank name, which you have done, makes it easier to choose the appropriate bank. > - Fix ic9x bank index being 0 instead of -1, thus avoiding auto-set Confirmed and the auto-set feature now works on the IC-92AD if the Bank Index was originally "-1". > - Add a "Special Memories" check box at the top to show/hide them Confirmed. > - Make all radios return all special memory locations all the time I presume you mean when the check box is enabled. If yes, confirmed. > - Improve automatic bank index selection Not sure what you have changed here. However, I did notice in the last couple of betas that in the Banks tab I can enter a long Bank Name which appears to be OK while CHIRP is running, but then gets truncated to 8 chars when you exit / restart CHIRP. Would it be better to limit the field to 8 chars (or whatever the radio can handle) at the point of entering the Bank name? This could probably wait until you attack the GUI in 0.1.9. > - Avoid loading the callsign lists at startup for radios that don't > require them. Instead load on the first attempt to show the D-STAR > tab. YAY!!! This makes the loading much faster. The only question is if you perform an export, for example to .chirp format, and you haven't pressed the D-STAR tab to load the callsign lists, will CHIRP grab this info and include it in the export? > I still haven't added the special memory support to > import/export, nor have I added the conversion of bank index > to letters. Nor have I added the bank index collision detection. No dramas. > Dave T, I hope you appreciate the last item in the changed > list. I got so tired of waiting for those big lists to > download *every* time I opened up the 92 :) Yep, see above :) > I think I'm going to fix up bank-index-to-letter bit for > import/export and then call 0.1.8 good, barring any other > actual bugs. I haven't come across any other bugs in this version, based on my testing with the IC-92AD, that would stop release once the bank-index-to-letter and import / export are addressed. I'll update the wiki Data Model on the wiki to reflect the Special Memories section and link it to the main CHIRP wiki page. > I wanted to release 0.1.8 a while ago with > mostly just individual memory field completeness, but the > special memory support has been quite a can of worms. Yeah, but it was such a simple and harmless request to include them in this release :) > We've > got a lot of things to fix that are all GUI-related that I > want to tackle in 0.1.9, and thus want to avoid the scope of > 0.1.8 creeping any further. Agree. Cheers, Davidt, VK3UR

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[chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b7
by Dan Smith 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi all, I just posted b7 with the following changes: - D-STAR support for IC-x82 - Fixed up setting bank back to None - Fix ic9x bank index being 0 instead of -1, thus avoiding auto-set - Add a "Special Memories" check box at the top to show/hide them - Make all radios return all special memory locations all the time - Improve automatic bank index selection - Avoid loading the callsign lists at startup for radios that don't require them. Instead load on the first attempt to show the D-STAR tab. I still haven't added the special memory support to import/export, nor have I added the conversion of bank index to letters. Nor have I added the bank index collision detection. Dave T, I hope you appreciate the last item in the changed list. I got so tired of waiting for those big lists to download *every* time I opened up the 92 :) I think I'm going to fix up bank-index-to-letter bit for import/export and then call 0.1.8 good, barring any other actual bugs. I wanted to release 0.1.8 a while ago with mostly just individual memory field completeness, but the special memory support has been quite a can of worms. We've got a lot of things to fix that are all GUI-related that I want to tackle in 0.1.9, and thus want to avoid the scope of 0.1.8 creeping any further. That, and I have several things I have to do to D-RATS that I've been ignoring :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b6
by David Tilson 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

G'day Dan, > I just posted b6 with the following changes: > - Special memory (call, scan edge) support for all radios (except call > channels on the 9x) Confirmed. It looks like the Call channels as well as 0A, 0B, 1A and 1B all came across fine on the IC-2820H. I presume you're aware that the Export function currently doesn't include any of the additional channels on the IC-2820H and the IC-92AD. > - Fix the issue with Bank-A on all radios that Dave Tilson hit Confirmed. Thanks for that. > - Make the memory editor autoselect the next free bank index if one is > not currently set when selecting a bank I think I understand what you mean here, but on my IC-92AD... I selected Mem 50 and set Bank "A", Bank Index "1". It then let me select Mem 51 and set it to Bank "A", Bank Index "1" and also Mem 52 to Bank "A", Bank Index "1". Therefore 3 memories are set to Bank "A" with Bank Index "1". If I understand your intention Mem 51 should not have let me enter a Bank Index "1" and should have forced the Bank Index to "2" and Mem 52 should have auto set it to "3". I then tried this on the IC-2820H... Note: Now on the IC-92AD the default Bank Index appears to be "0" from the CHIRP GUI, but on the IC-2820H the default Bank Index appears to be "-1". On the IC-2820H the auto increment looks like it works as it kept incrementing new entries as expected. However.... When I tried to set a Bank from (in this case) "G" to "none" an error message popped up saying "Invalid value for this field Invalid bank number 26". As a result I couldn't work out how to remove a Bank entry in the Memory tab. Similar to the IC-92AD problem, of auto increment listed above, I found on the IC-2820H that I could overwrite an existing Bank Index with another one that already existed, so that there could be multiple memories with the same Bank and Bank Index. > I didn't get a chance to make the CSV export use bank letters > instead of indices, but I will. Thanks Dan. Will look forward to that in a future release. Hope that helps :) Cheers, davidt

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[chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b6
by Dan Smith 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi all, I just posted b6 with the following changes: - Special memory (call, scan edge) support for all radios (except call channels on the 9x) - Fix the issue with the 2820's bank support that Dave Cooley hit - Fix the issue with Bank-A on all radios that Dave Tilson hit - Make the memory editor autoselect the next free bank index if one is not currently set when selecting a bank The first item was quite rough, it turns out. However, I think it's working now with a few exceptions. First, I need to fix it up so that the special channels are always editable (since it's non-trivial to insert a new row between 3A and 4B). Second, I need to add an option in the View menu to show (or not) the special memories. Third, I need to get out the sniffer again and figure out what the magic incantation is to get the call channels from the 9x radios. I didn't get a chance to make the CSV export use bank letters instead of indices, but I will. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b5
by David Tilson 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

> Whew. Okay, I'll get that fixed up and spin another one. > > Thanks for your patience :) No problems my friend... It probably would have helped if I had tried a few other scenarios first time around to narrow down the problem :) Cut and pasted from your email to Dave: > That next beta would, by the way, be coming soon if I could figure out what the heck Dave Tilson's problem is :) Are you refering to my CHIRP problem, or just in general??? :D Cheers, davidt

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b5
by David Tilson 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

G'day Dan, > > More important was the issue that the Bank was > > not being written to the CSV file. > > Okay, I'm confused. I've been really busy lately, and so my > attention to this has been spotty at best, which might be why > I'm having trouble maintaining context. No probs, we all get busy at times. > When I export to a CSV file from my 92, I get a bank number > and bank index. The number is 0 for A, 3 for D, etc. The > bank index is also a number and is 0 if not set. OK, I've narrowed the problem down. If I enter any Bank letter, other than "A", then it saves a numeric digit in the Bank field in the CSV file, as per your description. However, when I enter Bank "A" into a memory, it writes nothing to the Bank field. I had originally only tried Bank "A". > Are you not seeing this behavior? Perhaps the numeric bank > designation is confusing? I suppose I could make it > translate between letters and numbers on export/import... I think it would be a lot neater if you could translate it to letters, rather than numbers, so that the appearance is consistant. Hope this helps... Cheers, davidt

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[chirp_users] Bank Info Missing after import
by Dave Cooley 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

In using the "convert icf" function some of the bank names (of individual channels) did not come across. Due to the fact that no bank name is present the "Bank Index Value" presents as "-1". I have included both the original ICF file and the resluting chirp img file. Dave Cooley N4DIB

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8b5
by David Tilson 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

G'day Dan, > > Yep, IC-92AD (Band B). I assigned the memory to Bank "A" > and gave it > > a Bank Index of "1". The GUI displayed it as "A-", not > "A", so don't > > know if this has something to do with it. > > The GUI displays the bank as A-Foo in the memories tab, not > the banks tab, right? In the banks tab, it should show just > the bank name. The memories tab shows the bank ID (A-Z) and > the name so you can easily assign to unnamed banks. > > So, is there a problem or are you just asking if that's the > correct display? In the memories tab and drop down list it was displaying as "A-", "B-", etc, not as "A" or "B". More important was the issue that the Bank was not being written to the CSV file. > I can't for the life of me reproduce the issue of changing a > bank name and having it re-sort the list. OK, I'll keep an eye on it. I can manually resort the list if it happens. Cheers, davidt

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