CHIRP

Adam,

The "BF-480 for BF-A & K series" software from the Baofeng website is the OEM software used to program the BF-888s. I am assuming that the "480_Plus_Setup" software would be the OEM software used to program the BF-888s Plus.

If this is correct, the BF-888s Plus requires that "\x50\xBB\xFF\x20\x12\x07\x31\x02" is sent to the radio to initiate cloning. CHIRP sends "PROGRAM" to the BF-888s radio since that is what it requires". That being the case, it would be expected that the BF-888s Plus would refuse to enter program mode.

So basically CHIRP does not support the BF-888s Plus.

To be able to add support for the BF-888s to CHIRP would require that someone with the BF-888s Plus capture the transfer between the radio and computer using the OEM software. That way the protocol can be analyzed and reverse engineered. The best way to do this is by using Portmon on a computer running a 32-bit version of MS Windows.

Jim KC9HI

Closed in favor of #4835. Please follow and post there. Thanks!