[chirp_devel] Help with New Radio Support

[Jim Unroe]

I am looking at a new Anytone radio. After capturing the serial port
during a download from the radio using the Anytone software, my
feeling is that it is very similar to the protocol used by the
AT-5888UV that CHIRP already supports.

The problem I am having is that CHIRP is not seeing the data returned
from the radio for some reason.

    _echo_write(radio, "PROGRAM")
    response = radio.pipe.read(3)
    if response != "QX\x06":
        print "Response was:\n%s" % util.hexprint(response)
        raise errors.RadioError("Unsupported model")

For example, the above code sends "PROGRAM" to the radio to initiate
cloning, but then aborts with an "Unsupported model" error. The
printing of "response" show that it is "nul", but my port monitor
clearly show that "QX\x06" was returned.

Anybody have any advice for me to solve this?

Thanks,
Jim KC9HI