<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Look at the developers section of the twiki</div><div>http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Check out the code, then look at some of the drivers, like yaesu, etc.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Some use portmon, but I dont like it
personally.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Check out "free serial port monitor", which is free, but looks and feels almost exactly like eltima.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">A note about usb serial. If your app is really interacting with a serial port (i.e., virtual com port), then you can probably see it with a serial port monitor.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida
console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Just fyi, While FTDI chips present serial "COM" ports (i.e., VCP drivers) to the OS which can be used by any application, some apps read/write data to the device using the D2XX api - which cannot be seen by serial port monitors hooking into the COM ports…</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have only seen a few apps do this. One of the more popular radio programming software suites out there does this ;)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> bob <n612dw@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:15 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [chirp_users] how to capture radio stream?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4917801726"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv4917801726WordSection1"><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Hi guys,</span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">I need an implementation for a FT-8000 but I may be the only one out there, so….</span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">I thought I might be willing to invest some time into creating a driver as I need an excuse to fiddle with python anyway. It’s just another language, and been writing code for 20 years. </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">To that end, it would seem to me that
decoding/deciphering/analysis of the stream of bits and such is the real trick and mapping it to a structure that will work, ack, provide checksums etc. need some sort of analyzer widget for usb serial ports. </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">So what do you guys use to capture/reverse engineer what the radio is downloading to chirp, and how to figure out how to spit it back in the right format?? … is it published (I think not). </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">To start that discussion, what tools/techniques do you use/recommend to capture/deciper the kibbles n bits emitted from a target radio? </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">
</span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">I tried a tool from eltima that seemed to work nicely until the trial expired, and I cant afford 150 bucks for a full version. Probably a boatload of other toolss out there than can help capture and break it up that will also allow one to send to fake acks etc.</span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4917801726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">-bob</span></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div>
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