SM-land codeplug (Sweden)

[SA0ASM]

Hi!

I'm working on my codeplug for Sweden, hopefully to be shared in this thread soon, and whipped up a quick python script to import the repeater database from www.ssa.se. The program, along with example output is available on Github here: https://github.com/SA0ASM/rptconvert

If there is interest from neighbours in LA/OZ/OH-lands then I may support them in the future as well. Feedback is welcome in this thread or by email!

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[LB8VK]

Hello, very good news! Can you also prepare a DMR and FM codeplug for LA?

[SA0ASM]

Sure, try importing these CSV files which include all the LA repeaters in the SK6BA database.

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[LB8VK]

Thank you, I have downloaded, I will test.

[SM0IKR]

Hi Olle,
Sorry to say the script do not work for me.
See attached errors:
PS C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main> python .\rpt2ogd77.py
C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main\rpt2ogd77.py:134: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
tone_pattern = re.compile('([0-9]+\.[0-9])')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main\rpt2ogd77.py", line 3, in <module>
from curses.ascii import isalnum
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_3.12.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\curses\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
from _curses import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'
PS C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main>

Is it win10 or wrong Python version.
73 Göran SM0IKR

[SA0BUX]

Hi Olle,
Sorry to say the script do not work for me.
See attached errors:
PS C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main> python .\rpt2ogd77.py
C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main\rpt2ogd77.py:134: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
tone_pattern = re.compile('([0-9]+\.[0-9])')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main\rpt2ogd77.py", line 3, in <module>
from curses.ascii import isalnum
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_3.12.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\curses\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
from _curses import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'
PS C:\Users\Göran\Downloads\rptconvert-main\rptconvert-main>

Is it win10 or wrong Python version.
73 Göran SM0IKR

It works better on Linux, but I tested on Windows and you need to install windows-curses as it complains about missing module '_curses'

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C:\Users\lan\Downloads>..\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\pip.exe install windows-curses
Collecting windows-curses
  Downloading windows_curses-2.3.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.7 kB)
Downloading windows_curses-2.3.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (80 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 80.5/80.5 kB 901.3 kB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: windows-curses
Successfully installed windows-curses-2.3.2

Getting many warnings that seems related to characters coding but it makes the CSV files

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C:\Users\lan\Downloads>..\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python rpt2ogd77.py "repeaters (1).csv"
C:\Users\lan\Downloads\rpt2ogd77.py:134: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
  tone_pattern = re.compile('([0-9]+\.[0-9])')
Warning: district number à in "SKØNN Haninge 7" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SLØZS Västberg" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SLØZS Västberg" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SKØPQ Kista 2m" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SMØOFV Solna 2m" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SKØZA Solna 70c" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SKØRDZ Brottby" is not valid!
Warning: district number à in "SAØAZT Brottby" is not valid!

[SA0ASM]

Hej!

The curses module is actually not needed and you can remove the import statement.
Your other issue seem to be related to the file not being correctly detected as UTF-8 encoded, I'll see if that can be hinted to allow it to work on Windows.

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[SA0BUX]

Hej!

The curses module is actually not needed and you can remove the import statement.
Your other issue seem to be related to the file not being correctly detected as UTF-8 encoded, I'll see if that can be hinted to allow it to work on Windows.

73 de SA0ASM

What character coding should the output be ?

Looks like it's in UTF-8 , to my knowledge the CPS and Radio only support plain ASCII ?

I can probably convert the files with "iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT" before they are imported into the CPS.

[SA0BUX]

Hej!

The curses module is actually not needed and you can remove the import statement.
Your other issue seem to be related to the file not being correctly detected as UTF-8 encoded, I'll see if that can be hinted to allow it to work on Windows.

73 de SA0ASM

What character coding should the output be ?

Looks like it's in UTF-8 , to my knowledge the CPS and Radio only support plain ASCII ?

I can probably convert the files with "iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT" before they are imported into the CPS.

An update.

I tried importing the CSV files as is ( with UTF-8 chars ) and it looks like gibberish in the CPS with Chinese characters but "åäö ÅÄÖ" is displayed correctly in the radio.
But as we can see that frequency and location data is corrupt even if they are correct in the Channnels.csv so the coding confuse the CPS import.

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[SA0ASM]

Yes, this is a known issue in the OpenGD77 CPS. The label texts are converted to a chinese character set in the GUI, however importing UTF-8 from CSV works fine as you have witnessed. I have reported this bug here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3625&p=28295 Please feel free to chime in to that thread!

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