Good question. chirp certainly works in a Linux GUI (I've used it on Ubuntu and it works great!). But as for the command-line, editing is not an option as documented in the chirp.hg software link I sent. I tried vim'ing the img file but it looks like it's binary. Quick command-line edits would be handy though, for sure - although I imagine it would be one of those things that would be really easy to mess up if you put in the wrong type of character/data or whitespace. It would probably need a validator command with it to validate the img file before trying to upload it to your radio. I think it's one of things where it's not an option because no one's developed it yet. The user-base would probably be a fraction of the users who use the GUI so all the time and focus goes to the GUI. 

Also, I mentioned that my implementation uses Dropbox to sync the img files around - you of course use scp or rsync or some other filesync utility. I just used Dropbox because my radio files were already there and it was quick and easy to generate a public (yet obscure) URL and just do a wget.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM, David <BearSFO@pacbell.net> wrote:

My linux implementation have no GUI set up, and I just want to be able to read/write from/to my radios.  I can certainly edit the file somewhere else, dump it in, and then run chirp.

Having said that, is there a reason why it cannot be edited on linux?

--David


At 09:36 AM 2/14/2018, Tycen Stafford wrote:
Nah, I'd have to disagree, Nigel. I don't need to create/edit radio config files every time I use chirp, often times I just need to update a radio with a config I already have.Â

It's 100% usable from the command line for me for the scenario I described. Having the ability to have a pocket-sized headless radio updater is completely useful for me. I can think of other applications, too - if you had a dozen (or a hundred) radios that needed the same config applied repeatedly then you could add a button to that raspberry pi that triggered the command line update script and update your radios as fast as you could unplug and plug them from the programming cable (without having to click through the GUI). They don't all have to be the same radio, either. My script cycles through my 4 different radio types automatically until it finds the right one to update. If I were using the GUI I would have to open 4 different files and click through all the update confirmation dialogs. With my headless updater I just plug in whatever radio I want updated and kick off the update command and then wait for it to finish.Â

So, I understand that a command line chirp would not be useful to some (maybe even most), but that doesn't mean it's not usable to others.Â

David, what application were you looking for?


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel@ngunn.net> wrote:

If you have to create/edit your radio config files from the GUI on your desktop then Chirp is not fully usable from the command line.


On 14 February 2018 at 02:51 Tycen Stafford <tycen@tycen.com> wrote:

Yes, you can use Chirp on the command line:  https://github.com/tylert/chirp.hg

I use a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless chirp updater (for my mobile radio). I keep my chirp files saved in a Dropbox folder with public URLs - this way I can edit from the GUI on my desktop and then fire up the Raspberry Pi in the car (using my phone's hotspot feature) so it can pull the latest chirp images from Dropbox (via wget) and update the radio using command line chirp. I'm still working on the README but here's my files for putting it all together:  https://github.com/tycen/chirpi

I just call the updater script from cron on reboot.

-Tycen


On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel@ngunn.net> wrote:
You can start it from the command line (chirpw) but it is not usable without a GUI.

> On 13 February 2018 at 20:24 David <BearSFO@PacBell.NET> wrote:
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> Does chirp works on the linux command line? thanks
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