[chirp_users] Command-line Linux
Hello.
Just joined, so, this is probably a question that has been asked before but here goes.
I just bought a Baofeng UV5R and I want to be able to program it from the Linux command-line. Just uploading, downloading and editing memory channels etc.
I don't really want to do this either from Windows or from the Linux GUI as I'm a blind user and it's my experience that a lot of these applications are not accessible. Particularly on Linux as unless it's written in GTK it'll be almost inevitably impossible for me to use.
Mike G4XBF
Hi Mike,
I don't really want to do this either from Windows or from the Linux GUI as I'm a blind user and it's my experience that a lot of these applications are not accessible. Particularly on Linux as unless it's written in GTK it'll be almost inevitably impossible for me to use.
Nobody really works on the command line tool which means it's not very useful, unfortunately. That said, the UI is in fact written in GTK and I've been told that it works fine on Linux with a screen reader. Note that there is a relevant FAQ entry on this as well:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/FAQ#Im-a-blind-ham-Can-I-use-...
Good luck!
--Dan
Hello dan,
Thanks for this.
I will take a look at the source code for Chirp. I was pleased to see it's written in Python.
As a Python programmer who writes code for both Windows and Linux using the wx.Python GUI toolkit I can maybe have a go at knocking up a Windows version which will work with NVDA, the open source Windows screen-reader.
I can also probably adapt the source to my command-line needs on Linux and maybe feed back into the project.
Is support for Baofeng still experimental?
Mike
On 01/07/2016 17:36, Dan Smith wrote:
Hi Mike,
I don't really want to do this either from Windows or from the Linux GUI as I'm a blind user and it's my experience that a lot of these applications are not accessible. Particularly on Linux as unless it's written in GTK it'll be almost inevitably impossible for me to use.
Nobody really works on the command line tool which means it's not very useful, unfortunately. That said, the UI is in fact written in GTK and I've been told that it works fine on Linux with a screen reader. Note that there is a relevant FAQ entry on this as well:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/FAQ#Im-a-blind-ham-Can-I-use-...
Good luck!
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On 07/01/2016 12:36 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
Nobody really works on the command line tool which means it's not very useful, unfortunately. That said, the UI is in fact written in GTK and I've been told that it works fine on Linux with a screen reader. Note that there is a relevant FAQ entry on this as well:
Where is the details on chirp command line, I don't see it on the wiki?
On 16-07-01 07:50 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
Where is the details on chirp command line, I don't see it on the wiki?
There are hardly any details to be found. The code is the only place to find them.
--Dan
A friend is a completely blind ham - she for one would find being able to use chirp from the command line to be very useful. Is there any chance we could get working on documenting this capability?
Jim VE5EIS
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