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Installation Problem
by Ron Barbish 15 Jun '24

15 Jun '24

Hello Trying to install CHIRP on an ASUS Chromebook with a Debian GNU 11 Bullseye Linux environment. Installation instructions on the website followed. Running "$ pipx install --system-site-packages ./chirp-20240614-py3-none-any.whl" results with " Unable to parse package spec: ./chirp-20240614-py3-none-any.whl". I have moved the "chirp-20240614-py3-none-any.whl" to different directories with no success. Python 3.9.2. wxPython 4.0.7. CHIRP worked on this device until it stopped updating with an incorrect Python version message. I reset the Linux environment and reinstalled CHIRP, no love. Everything else works. The Linux "environment" is tough to work with, I would appreciate any help. Thanks Ron B *WatermanAtWork Website <http://www.watermanatwork.com>* - *Blog* <http://watermanatwork.com/blog/> - *KK7DTK*

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New chirp-next build
by donotreply＠chirpmyradio.com 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

Greetings, A new build of CHIRP-next is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree since yesterday and may include additional features, bug fixes, etc. Unless you have a reason not to, we recommend using the latest build of CHIRP-next at all times. You can get it from here: https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20240614 A list of changes since the last build are here: 05b881a1 kt8r: Add additional ident string c523fff7 Add support for KSUN M6 d89bb3cb retevis_ra87.py: fix scan options order - fixes #11372 Issues addressed in this build: [Bug 11372] Retevis RA87 doesn't retain scan mode changes [Bug 11374] KT-8R identification failed [New Model 11348] KSUN X-M6TFSI --

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Difficulty Programming ICOM 2720 using macOS Monterey
by brianwjoy1＠gmail.com 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Hello, I am trying to program a new-to-me ICOM 2720 using my macOS Montery. I am using CHIRP next-20240111. I've struggled to find any instructions on using CHIRP with this particular radio, but do see it on the supported radio list. From what I can tell, my Mac recognizes the Prolific USB cable I am using (it appears/disappears from my "System Report" when it is plugged/unplugged. However, CHIRP's "Help Me" feature from the Radio Download screen does not seem to detect which port the USB cable is connected to. Any assistance with troubleshooting or next steps would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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Re: Users Digest, Vol 186, Issue 1
by Dave B 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

Re:- On 01/06/2024 21:38, users-request(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com wrote: > I don't want to specify a specific version here because it's specified in the package and mentioned when you install (see above). Putting it here is just asking for it to be stale if it doesn't get updated the next time we bump. However, I'll be glad to add to the page that if you see something like the above error message it means your python is too old if you think it's necessary for clarity. > >> (Sorry to shout, but...) > Yeah, but please don't do that again. Your responses here have already been quite rude and I'm sure the other volunteers who work on this (and the docs, thanks Jeff!) will join me in appreciating you being a lot more respectful. Thanks! > > --Dan OK Dan. Apologies for "shouting", but things could be somewhat easier for us (the less experience Python users out here) than your good self, who only get involved with installs and updates when needed. Just having something on the download page (and in the archive) that states what the minimum Python version (and wxPython perhaps) is needed for any particular version of Chirp, would save "A Lot" of user time (+ cost for those on a $-per-kByte connection) and confusion re Chirp, when they find after waiting (and or paying for) the download, that it won't install. I see you updated the download info page some hours ago now, at least your name is at the bottom of the page, not Jeff's. (Sorry, I don't know who Jeff is in this respect.) As to "needing" to update my distro (LMDE 5 just now) that is still in full support for nearly another 80 days, it keeps telling me. I don't doubt that things move on over time, that's the nature of stuff, but some appreciation for us the users would help us a lot. As for what pipx is telling us when it fails, that's rather cryptic and embedded in a lot of other text, and looks at first, to be something that was spat out as some code crashed and burnt. OK. For now, I've installed one of the 2024 January 11th version, as that still works with Python 3.9.x So I have the use of Chirp again, for now. FYI: There are several LTS versions of Linux, that last a lot longer than the 2 to 2 1/5 years of the mainstream distro's. Many are popular with Radio Amateurs, just because they /*do not*/ keep messing messing with utility version changes and such. "Stability" is preferable to many of us, rather than living on the bleeding edge of development. If a distro (as mine is) still receives security patches, that for the most part, is all we need. However... For those who would like to know if it's viable to try to install a CHIRP update, before doing so. First, in a terminal command line session. (Ctrl + Alt + T will launch a fresh terminal/command line session.) These commands will show you what you are running. (The '$' indicates the command line prompt, you do not need to enter it.) The result is shown on the next line. Find out the currently installed Python version. $ python3 --version Python 3.9.2 (https://devguide.python.org/versions/ is good to view, in relation to what you discover above. 3.9.x doesn't die, until October 2025, nearly a year and a half away, just for info...) To find out the installed version of wxpython... $ python3 -c "import wx;print(wx.__version__)" 4.0.7 Both as discovered on my present system. In a downloaded .whl file, using an archive browser, look for the folder 'chirp-yyymmdd.dist-info' (Where yyyymmdd equals the date part of whatever file you downloaded.) In that folder, look in the file METADATA and you'll find a string (it is a plain text file) like:- 'Requires-Python: >=3.7,<4' That (in this case) indicates that a Python version between 3.7 and 4 is needed. (Greater or equal to v3.7 and less than v4 That example comes from the 20240111 dated .whl file.) If you download the .tar.gz file instead, look for the file 'requirements.txt' Again, that has some minimum version info re wxpython, but not python itself, that can be found in the file PKG-INFO Again, both are plain text files. Sadly, you do have to download an entire file first to discover that info in either case.. Frankly, I'd suggest doing that first, */before/* uninstalling an existing working version of Chirp! Oh, I'd also keep a local copy of the downloaded file, especially when you do install it successfully. You may need it to repair things if something else goes bad, or to revert to a known working state if a future install goes bad. Perhaps without i'net access at that time. FYI: The immediate past day-job (thankfully I'm retired now!) I used to be the customer support and service guru, in-house and on-site, both hardware and software. I learnt very early on, that making as much information available to users, /before/ they commit themselves, saves a lot of time, effort (and cost) and greatly increases a customers likelihood to come back for more of whatever we were doing at the time, and giving us more of their money! That is with hardware, and especially software! Yes, Chirp is largely free to us the users, other than the cost of time and effort to install and learn. For that we are all grateful indeed. But wasting even "free" time does not go down well with many of us. Retired I might be now, but I'm as busy as ever, just working for other "managers". (Domestic and/or feline!) 73. Dave G8KBV. -- Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:

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Radio equivalents
by Adam Parsons 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Hi, I've just joined the list, in the hope I can get a little help with a couple of radios I'm just trying to program. Firstly, I've had a pair of Abbree AR-V2 radios for a while (maybe a year or so), but Chirp doesn't seem to support them. I'm kinda surprised after so long they've not been added, but maybe they are just rare. Is there an equivalent radio I can select instead? These are simple PMR-style radios with no keypad (just a on-off/volume knob, PTT and up/down buttons) with a 5-character LED display that appears through the speaker grille, if that helps anyone recognise it as another model. Even the Abbree web site doesn't list them. I think I got them from AliExpress... The radio I'm more interested in programming, however, is a newish model - the Baofeng P15UV. A friend of mine has bought a pair of these, and I'm hoping to program them for him (literally) in the field. I've looked around, and think they could be equivalent to: UV-15R GMR-15S GM-898 GM-15X TH-15S AI-15X AT-15UV G-15UV GM-30 TD-H5 ...however, Chirp doesn't yet seem to list any of these as supported. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? Any suggestions would be gratefully received! Thanks, Adam

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New chirp-next build
by donotreply＠chirpmyradio.com 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Greetings, A new build of CHIRP-next is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree since yesterday and may include additional features, bug fixes, etc. Unless you have a reason not to, we recommend using the latest build of CHIRP-next at all times. You can get it from here: https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20240606 A list of changes since the last build are here: 543be9ab Updated Spanish Translation 743d4379 Update Italian Translation ac3b974a Update Spanish Translation ad868db0 Alias Baofeng UV-25 to UV-17Pro driver df19a562 tdh8.py: allow pasting of airband frequencies - (3 of 3) - fixes #11363 902fc534 tdh8.py: fix driver bug - (2 of 3) - #11363 786e2cc0 tdh8.py: fix Radtel RT-730 bug - part 1 of 3 - #11363 0c242eb7 Make import_logic check frequency first Issues addressed in this build: [Bug 11260] UV-25 not on compatibility site list [Bug 11363] Radtel RT-730 --

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Linux distribution
by frankben＠internode.on.net 02 Jun '24

02 Jun '24

Is there an appImage (compiled) version of Chirp available? - for the various versions of linux. Both the .whl and tar.gz versions currently on the chirp website do not work (failed dependencies)

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Updating/installing Chirp on Linux, or not as it seems to be.
by Dave B 02 Jun '24

02 Jun '24

Well. Just for the heck of it, I went ahead, following the published (on https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux ) instructions. What follows below, was performed on LMDE 5. (Linux Mint Debian Edition. In effect, Mint without the Ubuntu influences.) Chirp was not running, I had checked it worked OK before uninstalling. A fresh file was downloaded from :- https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20240531/chirp-20240531-py… Without errors or warnings... Then, from my home folder in a terminal session... dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx uninstall chirp uninstalled chirp! ✨ 🌟 ✨ That worked... dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages /home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl (The path and file *are valid*) The result? ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10' Cannot determine package name from spec '/home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors. Checking my installed version of Python 3... dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ python3 --version Python 3.9.2 Even copying the downloaded file to my home folder and ... dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10' Cannot determine package name from spec '/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors. or just ... dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10' Cannot determine package name from spec '/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors. So what gives? As can be seen the basic error is the same regardless of how I reference the package file. As before, I'm a relatively experienced Linux user, and had installed Chirp Next using pipx in the past, but into a virgin system. Are the website instructions wrong or just incomplete, or have I misinterpreted the instructions? Either way, THIS is why an automated script is needed, even if there has to be different versions for (example) Fedora vs Debian based distro's. If Python needs updating, then.. !!! THE REQUIRED MINIMUM VERSION SHOULD BE MENTIONED ON THE WEBSITE !!! (Sorry to shout, but...) 73. Dave G8KBV. -- Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:

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Re: Linux distribution
by raymarx＠duck.com 01 Jun '24

01 Jun '24

Ok sad ham whatever Ray Marx Ray.Marx.67(a)gmail.com On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 4:45 PM Scott Lopez via Users < users_at_lists.chirpmyradio.com_raymarx(a)duck.com> wrote: > > I'm just having trouble grasping how to do anything on SteamOS Arch > Linux. > > you're supposed to play games on SteamOS, preferably purchased from the > Steam store. it's not intended to do be a general purpose linux > installation for you to do whatever you want with. so until Chirp is > available in the Steam Store, i'd find another linux system to use unless > you want a lot of headaches. this is coming from someone who's been using > unix since the 70s. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > users(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com > https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/postorius/lists/users.lists.chirpmyradio.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to users-leave(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com > To report this email as off-topic, please email > users-owner(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com > List archives: > https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/hyperkitty/list/users@lists.chirpmyradio.com/ >

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Re: Updating/installing Chirp on Linux, or not as it seems to be.
by raymarx＠duck.com 01 Jun '24

01 Jun '24

Looks a lot like my issues as well, in Arch Linux in SteamOS. No matter whatever I attempt to use, be it the instructions on the Linux installation page on the Chirp site or the page about installing the outdated Chirp version in the threads about installing it on SteamOS. If I can manage to get it installed, I cannot uninstall it, update/upgrade it, nor reinstall it if I do manage to get rid of it, (usually by finding the app and deleting it's folder in my apps folder.) Ray Marx Ray.Marx.67(a)gmail.com On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 12:12 PM Dave B via Users < users_at_lists.chirpmyradio.com_raymarx(a)duck.com> wrote: > Well. > > Just for the heck of it, I went ahead, following the published (on > https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux ) > instructions. > > What follows below, was performed on LMDE 5. (Linux Mint Debian > Edition. In effect, Mint without the Ubuntu influences.) > > Chirp was not running, I had checked it worked OK before uninstalling. > > > A fresh file was downloaded from :- > > https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20240531/chirp-20240531-py… > Without errors or warnings... > > Then, from my home folder in a terminal session... > > dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx uninstall chirp > uninstalled chirp! ✨ 🌟 ✨ > > That worked... > > > dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages > /home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl > > (The path and file *are valid*) The result? > > ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in > '<4,>=3.10' > Cannot determine package name from spec > '/home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package > spec for errors. > > > Checking my installed version of Python 3... > > dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ python3 --version > Python 3.9.2 > > > Even copying the downloaded file to my home folder and ... > > dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages > ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl > ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in > '<4,>=3.10' > Cannot determine package name from spec > '/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for > errors. > > or just ... > > dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl > ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in > '<4,>=3.10' > Cannot determine package name from spec > '/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for > errors. > > So what gives? As can be seen the basic error is the same regardless of > how I reference the package file. > > As before, I'm a relatively experienced Linux user, and had installed > Chirp Next using pipx in the past, but into a virgin system. > > Are the website instructions wrong or just incomplete, or have I > misinterpreted the instructions? > > > Either way, THIS is why an automated script is needed, even if there has > to be different versions for (example) Fedora vs Debian based distro's. > > If Python needs updating, then.. !!! THE REQUIRED MINIMUM VERSION > SHOULD BE MENTIONED ON THE WEBSITE !!! > (Sorry to shout, but...) > > > 73. > > Dave G8KBV. > > > -- > Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open > source software: > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > users(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com > https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/postorius/lists/users.lists.chirpmyradio.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to users-leave(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com > To report this email as off-topic, please email > users-owner(a)lists.chirpmyradio.com > List archives: > https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/hyperkitty/list/users@lists.chirpmyradio.com/

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