CHIRP

Perhaps an easier way to implement would be a favorites tab and people manually add their favorite radios to the group. Automation might make it more of a hassle imo.

This is a reasonable ask, but I'm not sure yet how I want to implement it...

Looks good!  I'm happy to test...

On Monday, October 14, 2024 at 03:27:40 PM MST, Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com wrote:

Chirp's module system only works for drivers, not UI code. But, since you're on linux you can probably check out and run this manually if you want:

https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp/tree/bugs-and-features

In case you fetched this immediately, I just force-pushed to that branch with an updated dialog that can be larger than a postage stamp, FYI.

The INSTALL file lists some dependencies, but:
joliver@blinky:~$ sudo apt install python python-gtk2 python-libxml2 python-libxslt1 python-serial python-support
[sudo] password for joliver:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package python is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  2to3 python-is-python3

E: Package 'python' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package python-gtk2
E: Unable to locate package python-libxml2
E: Unable to locate package python-libxslt1
E: Unable to locate package python-serial
E: Unable to locate package python-support
I guessed I should try python3, but:
joliver@blinky:~$ sudo apt install python3 python3-gtk2 python3-libxml2 python3-libxslt1 python3-serial python3-support
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3-gtk2
E: Unable to locate package python3-libxslt1
E: Unable to locate package python3-support

On Monday, October 14, 2024 at 03:53:32 PM MST, Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com wrote:

Oh that stuff is like a decade out of date, sorry. See ChirpOnLinux.

And to be clear, you can clone the branch and just pass . to the pipx install command instead of the wheel.

If that all sounds complicated, no worries, this'll be in a build soon enough.

Yeah, well, it can evolve from here. That clone dialog has basically been unchanged for 15 years, so it'll take me some time to even be able to consider it being different. But let's see how this goes for a while.

Note that you can trim the recent models list from the config if you really want. Obviously not very user friendly, but more buttons/behaviors means more complexity and such.

I just pushed changes to allow pruning the list and optionally starting with the recent list, if there are any. It definitely complicates the whole process a little bit, but I think it's reasonably workable. If you can poke around and try to break it a bit, I'd appreciate it.