On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 10:17 AM Rich Gilbertson <na7rg@email.com> wrote:

Years ago, I bought a 5 dollar cable to program my Baofeng. It didn't work. I was informed many cloned FTDI cables don't work.
I bought the Baofeng cable, about $20 at the time. Always works.

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On 7/16/23, 10:13 AM John Oliver <jnojr1@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried under Windows 10, which reports the cable as being COM5. I could not connect to the radio. Now I've tried on another laptop running Ubuntu 22.04LTS. Still no dice. The "Help me" under port says "Your cable appears to be on port: FT231X USB UART - FT231X USB UART (/dev/ttyUSB0)"

Maybe the cable is bad?

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 9:35 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:

Rich,

How are COM Ports tested in Linux? I know in Windows, Device Manager can be used.

Thanks,

David

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:31 PM Rich Gilbertson <na7rg@email.com> wrote:

Check comm ports. Usually 3 or 4. Should show the chip in your cable.

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On 7/16/23, 9:27 AM John Oliver <jnojr1@gmail.com> wrote:

I hear nothing. No sign that anything is being received.

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 9:22 PM K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:

Hi John,

Might the tuned frequency be receiving traffic while you are connected?

If so, make sure it's on a quiet channel.

HTH.

Glenn

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From: John Oliver

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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2023 4:54 PM

Subject: [chirp_users] Can't connect to BTECH UV-25X2-Gen2

I get "Error reading data from radio" I'm using this cable: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017MT7IFG It is plugged in all the way!

I cannot find a debug.log There is no option for one in my CHIRP (CHIRP next-20230712 on Python 3.8.10 wxPython 4.0.7 gtk3 (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.0.4) And none is created in ~/.chirp While CHIRP is still running:

joliver@blinky:~$ ls .chirp/
chirp.config stock_configs

In the terminal I launched CHIRP:

joliver@blinky:~$ ./.local/bin/chirp
02:52:04 PM: Debug: Unrecognized accel key 'backspace', accel string ignored.
ERROR: Failed to clone: Error reading data from radio
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/joliver/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chirp/drivers/btech.py", line 369, in _rawrecv
raise errors.RadioError("No data received from radio")
chirp.errors.RadioError: No data received from radio

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/joliver/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chirp/wxui/clone.py", line 68, in run
self._fn()
File "/home/joliver/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chirp/drivers/btech.py", line 758, in sync_in
data = _download(self)
File "/home/joliver/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chirp/drivers/btech.py", line 533, in _download
_do_ident(radio, status)
File "/home/joliver/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chirp/drivers/btech.py", line 447, in _do_ident
ident = _rawrecv(radio, 50)
File "/home/joliver/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chirp/drivers/btech.py", line 377, in _rawrecv
raise errors.RadioError("Error reading data from radio")
chirp.errors.RadioError: Error reading data from radio

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