[chirp_devel] chirp-py3 status?

Fri Dec 11 07:30:33 PST 2020

Hi Jim,

Are you talking about the current py3 branch? If so, would you mind testing
this out?

https://github.com/mpoletiek/py3-chirp

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Matthew Poletiek
303.810.9082
matthew.poletiek at gmail.com
www.matthewpoletiek.com

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:20 AM James Keener <jim at jimkeener.com> wrote:

> It sounds like others have a much better idea of the state of the project
> than I do, so please consider me as a resource to farm any work out to. I
> only have Linux, a UV5R, and a TM-V7 but can ensure those work and work on
> the UI, RepeaterBook interface, RadioReference interface, &c
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:03 AM Matthew Poletiek via chirp_devel <
> chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
>> More good news....
>>
>> I got this working in Windows 10 after fixing a USB Serial driver issue.
>>
>> Looks like we have a working Python 3 version in Linux, Mac, and Windows.
>> It's definitely not as good as the main branch. Missing quite a few
>> features (like importing from RepeaterBook), but it's definitely a start.
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Matthew Poletiek
>> 303.810.9082
>> matthew.poletiek at gmail.com
>> www.matthewpoletiek.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:35 AM Matthew Poletiek <
>> matthew.poletiek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Good news. I got this running in windows this morning.
>>>
>>> I had to use the chirpwx.py script to bring it up.
>>>
>>> I installed python3.9 for windows and used pip to bring in all the
>>> dependencies.
>>>
>>> pip install pypiwin32
>>> pip install wxpython
>>> pip install six
>>> pip install future
>>> pip install pyserial
>>>
>>> Still working on getting a download from my radio though. Issue might be
>>> related to the fact I'm running windows 10 in a VM. Continuing to test, but
>>> it looks like we have a path forward in windows.
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> Matthew Poletiek
>>> 303.810.9082
>>> matthew.poletiek at gmail.com
>>> www.matthewpoletiek.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:52 PM Matthew Poletiek <
>>> matthew.poletiek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>> I'd rather not at this time. Honestly I'd like to focus on getting a
>>>> working Python 3 version up and running and while cloning the main branch
>>>> and uploading it to github is easy, publishing is not.
>>>>
>>>> I was able to get the current py3 branch (with some tweaks) running in
>>>> a few different linux distros without issue. @Nicolas Pike
>>>> <nicolas at jetblackjelly.com> was able to get it running on his mac and
>>>> was able to download and upload to a BF88s.
>>>>
>>>> I'm really struggling with Windows though. I have a Windows 10 VM
>>>> running, but getting a proper environment setup to test the py3 branch as
>>>> it's written is proving difficult.
>>>>
>>>> I can't get Python3.9 for Windows 10 to compile PyGObject. When I
>>>> follow the documentation on PyGObject's site they recommend using MSYS2,
>>>> but I can't get a working version of pypiwin32 (win32api) up and running in
>>>> MSYS2. Kindof feels like a rock and a hard place. I might have to compile
>>>> my own GTK3 libraries for Windows just to be able to publish something for
>>>> Windows which is probably 90% of the user base.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has any tips I'd really welcome them. I'm continuing to
>>>> submit patches against the py3 branch (
>>>> https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8545), but I'm also maintaining all
>>>> my fixes on github: https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8545
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>> Matthew Poletiek
>>>> 303.810.9082
>>>> matthew.poletiek at gmail.com
>>>> www.matthewpoletiek.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:50 PM Mark Leigh <mark.leigh at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Matthew,
>>>>> As I understand the maintainer is not currently working on CHIRP due
>>>>> to (medical?) issues, would you be interested in forking the main branch as
>>>>> well? There have been a number of commits but none have been incorporated
>>>>> since late November.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> -Mark
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> *From: *"Matthew Poletiek via chirp_devel" <
>>>>> chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com>
>>>>> *To: *"RepeaterBook admin" <admin at repeaterbook.com>, "chirp devel" <
>>>>> chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com>
>>>>> *Sent: *Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:42:21 AM
>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [chirp_devel] chirp-py3 status?
>>>>>
>>>>> Awesome!
>>>>>
>>>>> Stay tuned. I'm still trying to get a working dev environment in
>>>>> Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 2:51 PM RepeaterBook admin via chirp_devel <
>>>>> chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have issues with RepeaterBook that I can help with, please let
>>>>>> me know. I am using Cloudflare and have a firewall rule that only let’s the
>>>>>> server IP for CHIRP through. We occasionally get folks building their own
>>>>>> programs and attempting to use the CHIRP API to funnel data to their own
>>>>>> applications (I think). Hopefully I wasn’t blocking legit uses and testing
>>>>>> with this project. The user agent even reported as CHIRP, but that can be
>>>>>> faked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I’d also like to clean up the queries a bit. Maybe expand the search
>>>>>> criteria. CHIRP is also hitting two URL’s and we can reduce that to one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Garrett Dow**, KD6KPC/WREQ745 *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Owner, RepeaterBook.com*
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