[chirp_users] linux command line

Chuck Hast
Wed Feb 14 20:13:33 PST 2018


Good stuff, learned a lot there. I am betting that there are a lot of
people that
just want to do a quick update to a file using something like a RPI
headless.

I have one that I am planning on doing exactly that. So I can use this soon.


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:33 PM, David <BearSFO at pacbell.net> wrote:

>
> Thanks, this definitely helps, I will take another look and give it a try
> if I can get it set up
>
> --David
>
>
> At 02:57 PM 2/14/2018, Tycen Stafford wrote:
>
> Well, that's what I though, but hey look at that.. I did just see that
> command line chirp can do some editing!  You can list the settings, list
> the memory channels, set a memory channel, clear a memory channel and copy
> a memory channel. So about the only thing you can't do is edit settings. I
> was only looking for something to upload to the radio so I hadn't paid
> attention to the rest of the README. I just tired it out on on of my images
> and it seems to work. From the README page on github:
>
>
>
> List Settings
> -------------
>
> For radios that support settings, you can list the current settings
> in a saved image:
>
>     chirpc --mmap=<file> --list-settings
>
>
> Show Memory Channels
> --------------------
>
> You can list all current memory channels in a saved image:
>
>     chirpc --mmap=<file> --list-mem
>
> That command only lists the currently programmed channels.  To see
> the
> complete list (including empty channels), add '--verbose'.
>
> To view only a single channel, use the --get-mem option:
>
>     chirpc --mmap=<file> --get-mem <channel>
>
>
> Set a Memory Channel
> --------------------
>
>     chirpc --mmap=<file> --set-mem-name=<name>
> ... <channel>
>
> See the --help text for a complete list of options that can be used
> to configure the channel.  Any settings that are not configured
> using
> a command option will be left unchanged.
>
>
> Clearing a Memory Channel
> -------------------------
>
> You can clear a memory channel, discarding all settings:
>
>     chirpc --mmap=<file> --clear-mem
> <channel>
>
>
> Copying a Memory Channel
> ------------------------
>
> You can copy a memory channel:
>
>     chirpc --mmap=<file> --copy-mem
> <source_channel> <destination_channel>
>
> Note: The contents of <destination_channel> will be overwritten
> with
> the contents from <source_channel>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 1:08 PM, David <BearSFO at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> 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 <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.  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. I don't need tto 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.Â
> 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.Â
> 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.Â
> David, what application were you looking for?
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <
> 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 <tycen at tycen.com> wrote: Yes,
> you can use Chirp on the command line:šÂ  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:  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 <
> 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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