I'm working on updating the version in the Ubuntu Hams PPA as we speak. -Kamal
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 11:07 -0700, joshua besneatte wrote: > I am also using a uv5r and confirm that the daily snapshot of Chirp > from their PPA works fine with my radio. The latest version of Chirp > also gives a warning stating that there are problems with the > inconsistencies between the firmwares that come installed on different > releases of the UV-5r. > > > Perhaps if it would be too much hassle to pull Chirp from the PPA, we > could at least add a warning in the wiki with a link to the Chirp > snapshot PPA. It would be quick and easy to add at least a > warning/suggestion/link to keep someone else from running into the > problem Darkus had. > > > With the frequency (haha no pun intended) at which China is pumping > out some really great radios at great prices, it will definitely be > essential to always use the latest snapshot of Chirp. > > > I can do the wiki updates if that's what the group wants. Let me know. > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > It's an old version which has a bug that resulted in me not > being able to > use my new radio for the week long event I purchased it for. > > If you download a chirp file from a Baofeng UV-5R with an > older firmware > version (such as BFS311), then upload it to a radio with a > newer firmware > (such as N5R2407) with a version of chirp older than daily > build 07172014, > it will not recieve audio. Issue #2 here: > > http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-RecoverN5R.php > > If this PPA did not exist, I would have used > https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archive/ubuntu/chirp-snapshots and > not had > this problem. > > (I used the PPA because the version in precise was too old to > upload to a > UV-5R, I believe.) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
