[chirp_devel] Kenwood TK-280 + an Introduction

[Glancing Blow]

Lax on this but as I have time I peck at it.

Tom's patch for the serial object solved the setTimeout error I was
getting.  I do not have the Kenwood software to sniff out the process so i
am flying blind.  What I have done ...

I copied the TK-760G.py file from the program and looked at the flow of the
program.  Making assumptions here but decided the TK-278G would be the
closest configuration that would work.  I tried that in the program and got
the exception ...

Exception Dialog: Incorrect model ID, got v2.01k�, it not contains P2780

So it talked to the radio, this was good.  No idea what the character in
the diamond at the end of the exception is but I grabbed the v2.01k moniker
and copied and patched the TK-278G data, putting it at the end of the
string of radios listed in the TK-760.py file.  Here is the patch ..


@directory.register
class TK280G_Radios(Kenwood_Serie_60G):
    """Kenwood TK-280G Radio C/C1/M/M1"""
    MODEL = "TK-280G"
    TYPE = "v2.01k"
    # Note that 16 CH don't have banks
    VARIANTS = {
        "v2.01k\xff":    (128, 136, 150, "C1"),
        "v2.01k\xff":    (128, 144, 174, "C"),   # 150-174 original
        "v2.01k\x15\xff": (16,  136, 150, "M1"),
        "v2.01k\x14\xff": (16,  144, 174, "M")    # 150-174 original
        }

Started CHIRP and now I found the TK-280G in my radio list.  Told it to
download and got a handshake exception ...

ERROR: ----------------
ERROR: Clone failed: Handshake failed
ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: Handshake failed  ---
ERROR: None

ERROR: ----------------------------

What does it send for a handshake, the radio name?  Also noted that the
radio only responds on channel 1.  A capital P appears on the LCD and I
assume that means Program.

David Davis
Toledo, OR
KG7ZMX

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Glancing Blow via chirp_devel
> <chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> > 'Serial' object has no attribute 'setTimeout'
>
> My patch to fix this was applied this morning. Do "hg pull -u" to
> update your repo to the latest version.
>
> My suggestion is to start with a serial data capture program like
> portmon and watch how the Kenwood software communicates with the
> radio. If it's anything like the others, it'll start with "PROGRAM" in
> plain ASCII. Kenwood is nice this way. At the end, it'll do "E" to
> take it out of program mode. That's just my guess based on other
> Kenwoods. You'll have to decipher the stuff in between. It'll probably
> be something like a request for the memory contents at a specified
> address, then a reply with the contents of that memory block.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
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