Only with Windows. Linux and OSX don't have com ports.

On 05/01/2021 20:30 Alexandre Souza <alexandre.tabajara@gmail.com> wrote:


Please, when complaining about serial port errors here, put the number of your serial port in the message. I BELIEVE there is a bug on serial port handling above com10...

If you download the source, and have Python (2) installed, you could update that file and test it. You don't need an executable.

Joe Pizzi

KI5LST

On 1/6/2021 6:20 AM, John wrote:

This is the third post I have read in the last couple of weeks that mentions a bug in COM port handling where the COM port number is above 10. I believe this is an straightforward fix.

The problem appear to be in platform.py which generates a list of available COM ports. It correctly starts by using the '//./' prefix, but then strips it for display purposes. When it the program then tries to use a port from the created list that is above COM9, this will fail because for port above 9 Windows requires the prefix, i.e. //./COM10. The program needs to retain the '//./' prefix or have two name fields keeping the display name separate from the system name.

Since I don't know how the program is compiled/packaged into .exe/.dll files on Windows, I can't actually test my theory at present, however a quick an dirty fix might be to simply change line 43 in platform.py from:

43             if portname.startswith("\"): 44                  portname = portname[4:]

to;

43             if (i<10 && portname.startswith("\")): 44                 portname = portname[4:]

This may not look pretty in the ports list but it might at least make it functional. I seem to recall from some time ago that ports below 10 must not have the prefix whereas it is necessary for 10 and above, but it was a long time ago. The other option might be to simply comment out lines 43 and 44 but that may then fail for ports below 10. Of course since the Windows version is compiled/packaged, the user is not in a position to make this change and and test so I am hoping the developers will see this info.

Regards.

Alexandre Souza wrote on 06/01/2021 01:30:

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Please, when complaining about serial port errors here, put the number of your serial port in the message. I BELIEVE there is a bug on serial port handling above com10...

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Em ter, 5 de jan de 2021 22:24, Mark Dixon <mdixon@dixemail.com mailto:mdixon@dixemail.com> escreveu:

Hi Billy

I find that I can only get Chirp to work with my BaoFeng UV-5REs
when I
do it with Linux. I get the same as you when I use Windows. It
might be
the cable (I use the one I got when I bought the UV5REs), or it
might be
the software, but if you can get access to a Linux you should be okay
even with a basic after-market cable.

Kind regards, Mark Dixon, VK6EZ.

On 6/01/2021 2:06 am, Billy Joe Higginbotham Jr via chirp_users
wrote:
> I can’t get my radio to link with my computer. I have the uv-5r
and run Windows 7 on my computer. I keep get the message (An
error has occurred could not open port [Error 2] The system
cannot find the file specified.) It like the Chirp can’t see my
radio.
>
> Sent from Billy’s IPhone
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Billy,

+2 on what Mark says about using LInux instead of Windows with CHIRP. I use a Chromebook with Ubuntu Linux installed as my daily driver, but you can run Linux on any system.. Linux has a bit of a learning curve but getting CHIRP installed and using it in Linux is as simple as following some recipes. Don't be afraid of the terminal, for installation you will just use it for copy and paste from the CHIRP website:

Ubuntu package via PPA

This is super quick and easy if you're running a reasonably new version of Ubuntu. Simply run the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install chirp-daily

Once it is installed, you start CHIRP from the application menu of the desktop, not unlike Windows. To keep CHIRP updated, you just need to run the "install" command in the terminal as above, no need to uninstall the prior version.;;pp-p

The big advantage is that there are no drivers to install, which is the bain of Windows (and Mac as well), since the communications drivers are built into the Linux OS. Also, Linux is not fussy about the cable, which is another issue with Windows. Linux works fine with the "counterfeit" Chinese cables. The drivers appear in the /dev directory as tty devices named ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, etc., when you plug the cable in, and these show up in the CHIRP dialog. You need to add yourself to the "dialout" group, which you can learn how to do with a quick Google search (with Linux, Google is your friend).

Your choice of course if you want to go on fighting Windows!

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:25 PM Mark Dixon mdixon@dixemail.com wrote:

Hi Billy

I find that I can only get Chirp to work with my BaoFeng UV-5REs when I do it with Linux. I get the same as you when I use Windows. It might be the cable (I use the one I got when I bought the UV5REs), or it might be the software, but if you can get access to a Linux you should be okay even with a basic after-market cable.

Kind regards, Mark Dixon, VK6EZ.

On 6/01/2021 2:06 am, Billy Joe Higginbotham Jr via chirp_users wrote:

...

I can’t get my radio to link with my computer. I have the uv-5r and run

Windows 7 on my computer. I keep get the message (An error has occurred could not open port [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified.) It like the Chirp can’t see my radio.

...

Sent from Billy’s IPhone

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