Throwing it out there to see if anyone have experienced something this strange, and specific before I submit an official bug report.
Chirp will hang in MacOs upon successfully uploading its settings to these radios. The system will behave as if if the serial device (/dev/cu.serial) isn't being closed properly. Killing the Chirp task will yield zombie Python processes that cannot be killed. A hard reboot is required to restore functionality, and graceful shutdown is not possible.
I’m pretty convinced it is an interaction between MacOS and the Wounux CHIRP drivers as I have throughly try to reproduce this issue with a number of different radios, and the hanging only happens with the KG-UV8* radios. I was able to reproduce this issue on two other MacOS system as well. One running High Sierra and the other Mojave. So that rule out it is a fluke of a single machine being quirky.
Reinstalling KK7DS R10 runtime did not help Updating Prolific USB serial drives did not help
Other platforms tested without issues: Windows 10 Windows 7 in a VM under MacOs High Sierra Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 3B
Radios tested without issues using the same systems listed above: Baofeng UV82HP BTech UV25X4 Yaesu FT-817
Since the Wouxun KG-UV8D+ and KG-UV8E / KG-UV8T, are based on the same parent driver codes, its likely that it is another bug Inherited.
What I really haven’t figured out is why all of a sudden this had become an issue, as I didn’t have the hanging problem in the past. It almost seems like it’s something similar to a time counter related Y2K type bug.
I’ve BCCed Mr Panye since he’s probably the most knowledgeable person on this driver. Regards,
Lynda W5EGL