[chirp_devel] Call for help

Fri Dec 9 07:45:28 PST 2022

I haven't seen a lot of response to this (specifically the radio testing effort) this week. Jim has been plugging away at testing what he has in his museum of radios and is making us all look bad (in a good way). But, there's a lot of stuff on the list that he doesn't have in his collection, and I've exhausted mine.

I know David spoke up that he might be able to do some testing, but other than that I'm thinking we might need to rope in a larger audience.

If you think you have radios on the list that you can test locally:

https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp/blob/py3/tests/Python3_Driver_Testing.md

Please speak up, even if you won't be able to do it right away. Knowing who has (or has access) to what at least gives an idea of how much more we're likely to be able to do.

If I haven't heard much by Monday I think I'll try to send out a similar call for help to the users list and various other places in hopes that some capable user types can help close that gap. That's a potential large can of worms though. I think almost all the Icom models are likely to "just work", and a bunch of the Yaesu ones will as well. However, many of the others will require work I think.

Thanks!

--Dan

> On Dec 4, 2022, at 08:58, Dan Smith via chirp_devel <chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In case you haven't been seeing the activity lately, much progress is being made on the py3 branch in github:
> 
> https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp/commits/py3
> 
> Thanks to a lot of help from @sv1 and @KC9HI, all of the drivers are now at least syntax-compatible with python3, running automated tests, and progress is being made to test (with real hardware) as many as possible to iron out remaining incompatibilities:
> 
> https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp/blob/py3/tests/Python3_Driver_Testing.md
> 
> As of today, about 38% have been tested, so we've got some work to do. I think it's unrealistic to get all of them tested in the short term, but we should at least shoot for the major brands and popular models as much as possible. So, the first call for help item is:
> 
> 1. If you have a radio in that list not marked as tested, please test and record it in tests/py3_driver_testers.txt with a PR
> 
> At the end of this email is a list of radios we have leads on for testing. Feel free to claim one of those, but the real prizes are the major models not on that list.
> 
> Next up is UI parity. I've been doing a lot of work on the wx UI lately and I'm pretty happy with it, so much that I've been using it exclusively for my personal programming for a while now. There are still some gaps missing that I need to take care of, and my current todo list is wrapped up here:
> 
> https://chirp.danplanet.com/versions/21
> 
> There are some things I'm not planning to pull into the new UI at all, and some things that can come later. So, the second call for help item is:
> 
> 2. Please test the new UI, help brainstorm what needs to be implemented (or fixed) before we start looking for more regular users to start using it
> 
> I've got one-off test builds here:
> 
> https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_next/
> 
> and will continue to generate those regularly until we get to the point of doing them automatically. The new macos build is much better than it has ever been, IMHO. It feels very native and will have universal2 intel/arm support the next time I roll it. Testing the bundled builds is important for sure, but getting a development environment running is also easier. You pretty much just need a recent python3 (3.10 recommended) and:
> 
> $ pip install -r requirements.txt
> 
> ...should get you there. Please file issues for things you find, and select "chirp-py3" for "target version" and "chirp version" to help keep track of bugs only in the py3 version.
> 
> I've been keeping the py3 branch in sync with changes to master for several months and even though it's doable, it's majorly not fun. I think the light is visible at the end of the tunnel at this point, so I'd really like to make 2023 the year we freeze work on the current py2 branch and get people moving to the new stuff. I'd like to be able to start getting "power users" testing the new builds early next year, which hopefully will help fill out the model testing edges.
> 
> Thoughts on the plan?
> 
> If you've got a radio on the list that needs testing, please speak up here so we at least know which ones are potentially testable.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Dan
> 
> List of drivers for which there is known likely tester already:
> 
> Abbree_AR-518            iradio_uv_5118.py
> AnyTone_OBLTR-8R         anytone_ht.py
> AnyTone_TERMN-8R         anytone_ht.py
> BTECH_GMRS-V1            gmrsvu1.py
> BTECH_GMRS-V2            gmrsv2.py
> BTECH_MURS-V1            mursv1.py
> BTECH_UV-50X3            vgc.py
> BTECH_UV-5X3             uv5x3.py
> Baofeng_BF-T1            bf-t1.py
> Baofeng_UV-6R            uv6r.py
> Explorer_QRZ-1           th_uv88.py
> LUITON_LT-316            retevis_rt22.py
> LUITON_LT-580_UHF        th9000.py
> LUITON_LT-580_VHF        th9000.py
> LUITON_LT-725UV          lt725UV.py
> MTC_UV-5R-3              uv5x3.py
> Radioddity_GA-2S         h777.py
> Radioddity_R2            radioddity_r2.py
> Retevis_H777_Plus        h777.py
> Retevis_RB15             retevis_rb15.py
> Retevis_RB17P            retevis_rb17p.py
> Retevis_RB615            retevis_rb15.py
> Retevis_RT1              retevis_rt1.py
> Retevis_RT22             retevis_rt22.py
> Retevis_RT22FRS          retevis_rt22.py
> Retevis_RT23             retevis_rt23.py
> Retevis_RT26             retevis_rt26.py
> Retevis_RT6              baofeng_wp970i.py
> Retevis_RT622            retevis_rt22.py
> Retevis_RT76P            retevis_rt76p.py
> Retevis_RT85             th_uv88.py
> Retevis_RT87             retevis_rt87.py
> Retevis_RT9000D_136-174  th9000.py
> Retevis_RT9000D_136-174  th9000.py
> Retevis_RT9000D_136-174  th9000.py
> Retevis_RT98             retevis_rt98.py
> Rugges_RH5R-V2           rh5r_v2.py
> TDXone_TD-Q8A            tdxone_tdq8a.py
> TID_TD-M8                retevis_rt22.py
> TYT_TH-UV88              th_uv88.py
> TYT_TH9000_144           th9000.py
> TYT_TH9000_220           th9000.py
> TYT_TH9000_440           th9000.py
> WLN_KD-C1                retevis_rt22.py
> Wouxun_KG-UV6            wouxun.py
> Yaesu_FT70D              ft70.py
> Yaesu_FTM350             ftm350.py
> Zastone_ZT-X6            retevis_rt22.py
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