[chirp_devel] AnyTone AT-D878UV support

[Kosmas Raptis]

Hello!

I've been using CHIRP for a while to program my QYT KT8900D, and recently I
became interested in adding support for my handheld radio, the AnyTone
AT-D878UV PLUS (and, by extent, the regular version of it). I set up a dev
environment on Ubuntu 20.04, used USBPcap to capture its packet data from a
Read using its official CPS from Windows, as the Add a Radio guide
suggests, and got that to Ubuntu to analyze with WireShark to start working
on the driver. I managed to figure out that it has a baud rate of 9600, and
which device it is from the .pcap file, also saw that it does a lot of
URB_BULK in and out requests, and also figured out there are actually 2
devices in address 1.2 (where my radio is), 1.2.1 and 1.2.3. The
communication works like this, if my order is correct:

host to 1.2.1: URB_BULK in, packet data length is 0
host to 1.2.3: URB_BULK out, packet data length is 6
1.2.3 to host: URB_BULK out, packet data length is 0
1.2.1 to host: URB_BULK in, packet data length is 24

Repeat multiple times (my radio has a lot of entries on it. Is it
recommended that I try with 1 entry on it, maybe, to get a shorter pcap
file that also shows me how it's done per entry? Or doesn't it matter?)

But I also need some help. How can I figure out the memory map? How do I
see the actual data sent in the packet and not just its header? How do I
check how the radio returns stuff like the version? Also, what are these
URB_BULK requests? Does it mean that it just dumps its memory without some
specific protocol? I really need help here, I'm very new to this (Haven't
worked on this for more than a couple hours, actually, and this is my first
time reverse engineering anything and using WireShark or USBPcap, and I
have a lot of questions). Thank you for your help!
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