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Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [3/20][GD-77]
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:10 am
by VK3KYY
Just to explain why this was changed...
Originally you had to press Blue + Green to save permanently to the codeplug, however a few people found this too complicated, so we changed it , for a while to save just on Green .
But, the change to only require the Blue button, ending up causing more problems than it removed, as people were accidentally overwriting their channel data when they didnt mean to.
So the original strategy was restored, and operators now have to make a definite decision that they want to permanently save to the codeplug memory.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:51 pm
by NA7Q
Updated to the latest code.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:49 pm
by KA5PLE
Thanks!
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:00 pm
by KA5PLE
Just upgraded to the latest code (1.54)
I don't know if this was there before, I never ran into it, but I tried to program a repeater with digital CTCSS codes and that is a problem. There is nothing in the on radio UI for that and if I program it via the CPS, which allows me to program those I get a tone of 800 some Hz, which is of course not correct.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:25 pm
by NA7Q
KA5PLE wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:00 pm
Just upgraded to the latest code (1.54)
I don't know if this was there before, I never ran into it, but I tried to program a repeater with digital CTCSS codes and that is a problem. There is nothing in the on radio UI for that and if I program it via the CPS, which allows me to program those I get a tone of 800 some Hz, which is of course not correct.
I assume you mean DCS? OpenGD77 does not support that feature currently. For technical reasons especially. I don't believe there is much of a hurry on it, especially considering very few repeaters even use DCS. I've never personally come across one in the PNW.
So CTCSS is the only thing available for now.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:48 pm
by KC7RBW
NA7Q wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:25 pm
KA5PLE wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:00 pm
Just upgraded to the latest code (1.54)
I don't know if this was there before, I never ran into it, but I tried to program a repeater with digital CTCSS codes and that is a problem. There is nothing in the on radio UI for that and if I program it via the CPS, which allows me to program those I get a tone of 800 some Hz, which is of course not correct.
I assume you mean DCS? OpenGD77 does not support that feature currently. For technical reasons especially. I don't believe there is much of a hurry on it, especially considering very few repeaters even use DCS. I've never personally come across one in the PNW.
So CTCSS is the only thing available for now.
It's a bug, though, if the firmware doesn't detect that it's DCS and tries to play something that's not a valid CTCSS tone. I'll see if I can repro and fix this.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:07 pm
by NA7Q
KC7RBW wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:48 pm
NA7Q wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:25 pm
KA5PLE wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:00 pm
Just upgraded to the latest code (1.54)
I don't know if this was there before, I never ran into it, but I tried to program a repeater with digital CTCSS codes and that is a problem. There is nothing in the on radio UI for that and if I program it via the CPS, which allows me to program those I get a tone of 800 some Hz, which is of course not correct.
I assume you mean DCS? OpenGD77 does not support that feature currently. For technical reasons especially. I don't believe there is much of a hurry on it, especially considering very few repeaters even use DCS. I've never personally come across one in the PNW.
So CTCSS is the only thing available for now.
It's a bug, though, if the firmware doesn't detect that it's DCS and tries to play something that's not a valid CTCSS tone. I'll see if I can repro and fix this.
I'm out of the loop on everything right now. I'm going to take it you figured out how to get DCS to function?
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:11 pm
by KA5PLE
> I'm going to take it you figured out how to get DCS to function?
I have not. I just programmed one of the repeaters here that use DCS, and yes I meant DCS, but my old fart brain did not want to produce the term when I was writing the previous post. And since I did not find anything in the radio UI I was going to myself: Hmmm- I wonder what happens if I put that into the radio via the CPS. So I did and when I checked back in the radio UI it said it had a CTCSS tome of 800some Hz.
That is all the testing I did thus far.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:25 pm
by KC7RBW
KC7RBW wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:48 pm
It's a bug, though, if the firmware doesn't detect that it's DCS and tries to play something that's not a valid CTCSS tone. I'll see if I can repro and fix this.
Confirmed the bug. Here's what you see when the channel is programmed to D023N.
- dcs-023n-as-ctcss.png (717 Bytes) Viewed 4906 times
This is happening because the firmware interprets the data as Binary coded decimal (32803 decimal is 0x8023).
I'll work up a patch that causes it to yield the None value for now, since DCS support is not ready yet and won't be for a little while longer.
Re: NA7Q - Unofficial Firmware Build [4/5][GD-77]
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:21 am
by KC7RBW
KC7RBW wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:25 pm
I'll work up a patch that causes it to yield the None value for now, since DCS support is not ready yet and won't be for a little while longer.
Pull request at
https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/ ... 7/pull/531
Test build at
OpenGD77-KC7RBW-ignore-dcs-20200406.zip