Re: [chirp_users] new user, unable to connect to FT-7800 on a MAC
Since you got the cable from Valley, it's almost certainly an FTDI chipset. The Prolific driver is completely useless for this cable. As I've learned from others on this group (Thanks Robert Terzi):
The RT Systems cables I've seen are made with FTDI chips. However they install a custom USB Vendor ID and Product ID (VID & PID) on them, so they aren't recognized by the generic FTDI virtual com port drivers.
I've got a Mac and one RT systems cable (FT-60) and one Valley cable (FT-8800). Your most direct path to a working solution is to get the generic FTDI driver from http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
It's possible to edit the Info.plist file in either the RT systems driver to work with a Valley cable, or in the FTDI driver to work with an RT systems cable, which I've done with my FT-60 cable, so I don't need both drivers installed (and I have a third FTDI cable unrelated to radios)). But you have to know what you're doing with plists and vid/pids, and have the motivation/need to do it.
The FAQ page that David referenced doesn't mention the generic FTDI driver, and IMHO it should.
-dan
Message: 3 Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 01:07:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David LaBier davidjlabier@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] new user, unable to connect to FT-7800 on a MAC To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: 1368518835.79248.YahooMailNeo@web122301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
What driver are you using for the cloning cable? Read below. What radio are you using? http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
On 5/14/13 1:40 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
Since you got the cable from Valley
I've gotten a bunch of cables from Valley for land mobile radios. They don't always take the same driver. For me, I've gotten good results by paying attention to what they have on the web site.
;B
Thanks for all the help. I made some success with the driver from Valley. It now shows the usb driver but when the clone message comes up on the computer the radio never shows the steps for cloning the radio.
Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
thanks / Rob
On May 14, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Bear Albrecht ebear422@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/14/13 1:40 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
Since you got the cable from Valley
I've gotten a bunch of cables from Valley for land mobile radios. They don't always take the same driver. For me, I've gotten good results by paying attention to what they have on the web site.
;B
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On 21 May 2013 13:31, Robert Lowery lowery17331@me.com wrote:
Thanks for all the help. I made some success with the driver from Valley. It now shows the usb driver but when the clone message comes up on the computer the radio never shows the steps for cloning the radio.
Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
thanks / Rob
On May 14, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Bear Albrecht ebear422@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/14/13 1:40 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
Since you got the cable from Valley
I've gotten a bunch of cables from Valley for land mobile radios. They don't always take the same driver. For me, I've gotten good results by paying attention to what they have on the web site.
;B
-- It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -- J. Danforth Quayle
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i found the steps for setting the radio into clone mode but still the software never starts reading and i still get the same message. (Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
thanks,
On May 20, 2013, at 11:31 PM, Robert Lowery lowery17331@me.com wrote:
Thanks for all the help. I made some success with the driver from Valley. It now shows the usb driver but when the clone message comes up on the computer the radio never shows the steps for cloning the radio.
Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
thanks / Rob
On May 14, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Bear Albrecht ebear422@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/14/13 1:40 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
Since you got the cable from Valley
I've gotten a bunch of cables from Valley for land mobile radios. They don't always take the same driver. For me, I've gotten good results by paying attention to what they have on the web site.
;B
-- It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -- J. Danforth Quayle
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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Robert Lowery lowery17331@me.com wrote:
i found the steps for setting the radio into clone mode but still the software never starts reading and i still get the same message. (Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
thanks,
What's on the display of the radio? It should say something like "TX CLONE" and the the s-meter will fill like a progress bar. Until you initiate this from the radio, Chirp won't hear anything.
Tom KD7LXL
Got this from another list and I'm posting for anyone else in the future who has the same problem. The windows program that i always used gave me the prompt for all the steps. Thanks for those that pointed me in the correct direction
rob
1- Hold down MHz and turn radio on 2- Press band set 3 Press VM (sending to computer ) or Press Low (sending to radio)
On May 14, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Bear Albrecht ebear422@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/14/13 1:40 PMm Valley I've gotten a bunch of cables from Valley for land mobile radios. They don't always take the same driver. For me, I've gotten good results by paying attention to what they have on the web site.
;B
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