<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:BearSFO@pacbell.net" target="_blank">BearSFO@pacbell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br>
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.<br><br>
Having said that, is there a reason why it cannot be edited on
linux?<br><br>
--David<br><br>
<br>
At 09:36 AM 2/14/2018, Tycen Stafford wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="m_8953924453841772968cite">Nah, I'd have to disagree,
Nigel. 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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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
<br><span class=""><br>
David, what application were you looking for?<br><br>
<br>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
<<a href="mailto:nigel@ngunn.net" target="_blank">nigel@ngunn.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><dl><br>
<dd><span class="">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.<br><br>
<br>
</span><blockquote type="cite" class="m_8953924453841772968cite">
<dd><span class="">On 14 February 2018 at 02:51 Tycen Stafford
<<a href="mailto:tycen@tycen.com" target="_blank">tycen@tycen.com</a>> wrote:
<br><br>
</span></dd><dd>Yes, you can use Chirp on the command line:Â
<a href="https://github.com/tylert/chirp.hg" target="_blank">
https://github.com/tylert/<wbr>chirp.hg</a><br><br>
</dd><dd>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:Â
<a href="https://github.com/tycen/chirpi" target="_blank">
https://github.com/tycen/<wbr>chirpi</a><br><br>
</dd><dd><span class="">I just call the updater script from cron on reboot.<br><br>
</span></dd><dd>-Tycen<br><br>
<br>
</dd><dd><span class="">On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
<<a href="mailto:nigel@ngunn.net" target="_blank">nigel@ngunn.net</a>> wrote: <br>
</span><dl>
<dd><span class="">You can start it from the command line (chirpw) but it is not usable
without a GUI. <br><br>
</span></dd><dd><span class="">> On 13 February 2018 at 20:24 David <BearSFO@PacBell.NET>
wrote:<br>
</span></dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd><span class="">> Does chirp works on the linux command line? thanks<br>
</span></dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>> --David<br>
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