[chirp_users] linux command line

Wed Feb 14 13:08:27 PST 2018

So, from what you just described, the edits would 
still need to be done inside chirp GUI?

--David

At 10:48 AM 2/14/2018, Tycen Stafford wrote:
>Good question. chirp certainly works in a Linux 
>GUI (I've used it on Ubuntu and it works 
>great!). But as for the command-line, editing is 
>not an option as documented in the chirp.hg 
>software link I sent. I tried vim'ing the img 
>file but it looks like it's binary. Quick 
>command-line edits would be handy though, for 
>sure - although I imagine it would be one of 
>those things that would be really easy to mess 
>up if you put in the wrong type of 
>character/data or whitespace. It would probably 
>need a validator command with it to validate the 
>img file before trying to upload it to your 
>radio. I think it's one of things where it's not 
>an option because no one's developed it yet. The 
>user-base would probably be a fraction of the 
>users who use the GUI so all the time and focus goes to the GUI.Â
>
>Also, I mentioned that my implementation uses 
>Dropbox to sync the img files around - you of 
>course use scp or rsync or some other filesync 
>utility. I just used Dropbox because my radio 
>files were already there and it was quick and 
>easy to generate a public (yet obscure) URL and just do a wget.
>
>On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM, David 
><<mailto:BearSFO at pacbell.net>BearSFO at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>My linux implementation have no GUI set up, and 
>I just want to be able to read/write from/to my 
>radios.Â  I can certainly edit the file 
>somewhere else, dump it in, and then run chirp.
>
>Having said that, is there a reason why it cannot be edited on linux?
>
>--David
>
>
>At 09:36 AM 2/14/2018, Tycen Stafford wrote:
>>Nah, I'd have to disagree, Nigel.Ã‚ I don't 
>>need to create/edit radio config files every 
>>time I use chirp, often times I just need to 
>>update a radio with a config I already have.Ã‚
>>
>>It's 100% usable from the command line for me 
>>for the scenario I described. Having the 
>>ability to have a pocket-sized headless radio 
>>updater is completely useful for me. I can 
>>think of other applications, too - if you had a 
>>dozen (or a hundred) radios that needed the 
>>same config applied repeatedly then you could 
>>add a button to that raspberry pi that 
>>triggered the command line update script and 
>>update your radios as fast as you could unplug 
>>and plug them from the programming cable 
>>(without having to click through the GUI). They 
>>don't all have to be the same radio, either. My 
>>script cycles through my 4 different radio 
>>types automatically until it finds the right 
>>one to update. If I were using the GUI I would 
>>have to open 4 different files and click 
>>through all the update confirmation dialogs. 
>>With my headless updater I just plug in 
>>whatever radio I want updated and kick off the 
>>update command and then wait for it to finish.Ã‚
>>
>>So, I understand that a command line chirp 
>>would not be useful to some (maybe even most), 
>>but that doesn't mean it's not usable to others.Ã‚
>>
>>David, what application were you looking for?
>>
>>
>>On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Nigel A. Gunn 
>>G8IFF/W8IFF <<mailto:nigel at ngunn.net>nigel at ngunn.net> wrote:
>>If you have to create/edit your radio config 
>>files from the GUI on your desktop then Chirp 
>>is not fully usable from the command line.
>>
>>
>>>On 14 February 2018 at 02:51 Tycen Stafford 
>>><<mailto:tycen at tycen.com>tycen at tycen.com> wrote:
>>>Yes, you can use Chirp on the command 
>>>line:Ã‚Â 
>>><https://github.com/tylert/chirp.hg>https://github.com/tylert/chirp.hg
>>>I use a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless 
>>>chirp updater (for my mobile radio). I keep my 
>>>chirp files saved in a Dropbox folder with 
>>>public URLs - this way I can edit from the GUI 
>>>on my desktop and then fire up the Raspberry 
>>>Pi in the car (using my phone's hotspot 
>>>feature) so it can pull the latest chirp 
>>>images from Dropbox (via wget) and update the 
>>>radio using command line chirp. I'm still 
>>>working on the README but here's my files for 
>>>putting it all 
>>>together:Ã‚Â  <https://github.com/tycen/chirpi>https://github.com/tycen/chirpi
>>>I just call the updater script from cron on reboot.
>>>-Tycen
>>>
>>>On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Nigel A. Gunn 
>>>G8IFF/W8IFF <<mailto:nigel at ngunn.net>nigel at ngunn.net> wrote:
>>>You can start it from the command line 
>>>(chirpw) but it is not usable without a GUI.
>>> > On 13 February 2018 at 20:24 David <BearSFO at PacBell.NET> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Does chirp works on the linux command line? thanks
>>> >
>>> > --David
>>> >
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>El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel 
><tel:(937)%20825-5032>+1 937 825 5032
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