[chirp_users] Baofeng UV82 Preprogrammed Channels

[K0LNY_Glenn]

Hi Stuart,
That might work in other situations, I will see what I can do with that.
My friend can barely manage windows stuff, so this is way beyond his 
capabilities.
So still hoping someone has a list of frequencies they put into these 
radios, I'm not sure if he can hear me from my QTH to his in any FRS or MURS 
channels they put into those radios, but it would be thrilling to him if we 
could make a cross town contact, and if I knew which frequencies were on 
what channels, I could have him tune to a particular channel and I can get 
on the same one.
It may take him a while to see if he can import the CSV file I sent him.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Longland VK4MSL via chirp_users" 
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2023 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Baofeng UV82 Preprogrammed Channels


On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 21:39:06 -0600
"K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn at ervin.email> wrote:

> Hi,
>  A friend of mine just got a new Baofeng UV82, he is about to take his Ham
> Tech test.
> I sent him a Chirp install file, but I don't know if he will be able
> to access it with his screenreader in windows 11.

If you're feeling adventurous, I've been doing some hacking of
`chirpc`.  You can find my hacked up `chirpc` here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjlongland/chirp/feature/chirpc-csv-import-export/chirpc

Assuming you have `chirp-next` somewhere you might be able to download
the above file into the same directory along side `chirpwx.py`, then
open up a command prompt in that directory and run (substitute COM1:
with your radio's serial port):

python3 chirpc --radio Baofeng_UV-82 --serial COM1: --mmap 
radio.img --download-mmap
python3 chirpc --mmap radio.img --export-csv radio.csv

Then you can open up `radio.csv` in a spreadsheet tool (I use
`gnumeric` in my testing since it's lightweight and does the job) --
that should at least let you "see" what's in the radio, assuming the
spreadsheet tool is itself accessible to screen readers.

Loading setting back in is still a work-in-progress.  I actually have
to re-factor that so I'm not re-inventing wheels on import, but the way
it *should* work is this:

python3 chirpc --mmap radio.img --import-csv radio.csv
python3 chirpc --radio Baofeng_UV-82 --serial COM1: --mmap 
radio.img --upload-mmap

I'll point out the above is 100% untested -- especially on Windows.
I've been using the GUI to upload/download, but then using `chirpc` to
actually do the updates due to bugs in my particular install.

I can understand the CLI is not for everybody either -- I'm only
proposing this as it might work-around some of the compatibility issues
and at least offer some minimal functionality.

A big downside with this approach is you miss out on integration with
things like RepeaterBook, etc.  Not a problem in my situation since
none of those services seem to cover VK repeaters, but it'd be a big
nuisance for US-based operators that use such services.

I did look into the situation of accessibility, and it seems it's a
mess: wxWidgets (which Chirp-next uses) doesn't seem to have any
working concept of accessibility, and while a module for Tkinter
(Python's built-in GUI library) exists, that enables it on Linux/Unix
not Windows.  I'm not sure how well PyQt5 fares -- historically Qt has
been problematic in the past.

The other options seem to be some modern GTK+ Python wrapper, or
something "terminal"-based (`urwid` perhaps).
-- 
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
  ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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