**WARNING** After some unfortunate incidents by users I'm going to put this warning and disclaimer up. DO NOT attempt to transmit without the proper precautions in place. Transmitting 5W of RF energy centimetres away from a PC can LITERALLY destroy it, it's almost like an EMP at that distance. Get your antenna away from the PC.
Tech Minds just did a video about this software. (Gave you credit) Awesome stuff! Edit: NVM, I saw that you replied to that video. None the less, congrats and thanks for this effort!
Ah yes, well even though I have made a cable myself, I'm not BigClive or MrCarlson. It's pretty bodged together and my soldering is worse than an infant could manage. I'm hoping someone else with more practical skills than I will do one.
This is absolutely GENIUS!! I have often wondered if something like this could be done. Now we know lol. My one question is, with this firmware can the radio still be used without being connected to the PC? Like if I want to just take it with me at a particular time and don't have my Windows tablet with me. 😎
hi, i really appreciate the video, but i stumbled on a problem ... did everything as in the vid.... worked ofc, but i have no audio at all !!! I`m on a Win 11 machine could be this the cause ? in spectrum analyzer ( from the dock ) i see that there is activity but audio output from my device is zero. Please help.
This is the kind of graphical interface used at my aerospace company. Absolutely brilliant! Got it to display on my windows PC, just need some guidance on audio out... any guidance on obtaining audio on my PC would be greatly appreciated. How do I create the audio cable folks are talking about?
Very clear video. I am still waiting for my K5 to arrive so I cannot try it out for myself yet but do I understand correctly that your firmware includes the egzumer firmware, you just built your PC interface around it? If so, is there a need to do a factory update first or can I directly install Quensheng Dock straight out of the box?
It's a great job ! Unfortunately the software dont work with my PC . I use Quansheng UV 5K (8) with Egzumer 0.21 . PC run under Windows 7 Pro. Nothing happen when I open QuanshengDock just the screen used port is OK and my channels in memory mode. It's all. A idea please ? TNX for advance.
Any sign this is going to get ported back into mainstream egzumer? I'm using the joaquim for messaging functionality and wouldn't want to sacrifice that....but it's basically a small mod on top of egzumer...so if this is incorporated into the main firmware there's a chance we'll get both. My understanding is that the available memory is the big limiting factor. Version I'm using uses 88% of the available memory according to my flasher. Would love to have both of those features but if picking will stick with short message. I do have a bluetooth flasher so suppose I could go back and forward between firmwares when I wanted to use this. All of this is amazing work from some very talented devs though and we'll get what we get I suppose - betters cannot be choosers and indeed we owe them endless gratitude for turning this cheap radio into something incredible! :-D
It's a lot of work to merge the current egzumer to the dock's version of egzumer. Plus I'll be playing cat and mouse with them every time they update as I have noticed that they seem to be including things that would conflict with my code. It might just be coincidental but then again it may not. Messing with the firmware could cause catastrophic problems, especially when I'll be dancing around conflicting updates. It's a whole bunch of work I would rather not get caught up in.
@nicsure thanks for your work and sorry to hear its been such a headache. Very much appreciated. Is there no scope that egzumer would merge this into their firmware by default and thus it'd be maintained whenever updates occur? From what you're saying about the fact they may be deliberately trying to make it harder I suspect not....anyway really appreciate your work. Frustratingly for me the message function on the current feature is pretty must have for my use case. :-/ perhaps if software on the PC could mimick that function and enable me to switch only one of my radios to this format and use the PC to pick up the received messages that might work. Anyway really appreciate your efforts. So amazing seeing what people can achieve where firmwares are modifiable!
amazing piece of kit, one question: if you only have the programming cable will the pc play the audio that the radio receives or do you need the audio cable? cheers - never mind github answered that question lol
I know you are probably really busy at the moment nicsure. Do you think this could fork into an Allstar node project one day or would it be impossible?
@@nicsure Sadly, no. It is listed in the task manager, but under Background Processes .. I have a TON of different dev environments on this system, so something in that might be the issue. VS Studio, Android IDE, Arduino stuff, and more.
@@TheZolon In that case perhaps cloning the source code and running it in Debug mode from within VS might help to identify the issue? I suspect it might be some .NET6.0 issue between the version you have installed and the version the app is expecting.
@@AndyMcGeeverPossibly but it would require some kind of interface to talk directly to the BK4819. It looks like egzumer is exploring that however as a recent commit on their original firmware now includes options to read and write BK4819 registers.
Is there a way to expose this as a CAT control device? With the ability to connect it for use with rig control software and other software this would be a great platform for APRS digipeater , All-star node , or even a personal cross repeater with a second radio... even better if the cat control interface could be accessed from Linux on a RaspberryPI ! Great job nicsure!
I bought this radio because I saw a video about the firmware hacks and I wanted to try. I knew virtually nothing about the amateur community. As this project has took off I've been thrown into a world of terminology and jargon that I have no clue about. Whatever you just said there I'm sure I'll understand in a few days, but for now bear with me.
@@nicsureoh wow! That you put this together without already being a ham is impressive! You're in good company then since skuep ( the guy who made the AIOC ) was (is?) also not a ham when they started... I'd encourage you to grab some online study info for the country you're in and get yourself a license to fully open up the hobby to you! As for what I said above, CAT control is a (somewhat) standardized protocol for radio control. There's all sorts of software out there that can interface directly to radios via CAT control over RS232 (originally) , or more commonly these days COM device over USB. If the firmware exposed a COM device for radio control, and used the command format compatible with CAT control, the options would really open up!
@@Wayde-VA3NCANow you see, that's my ignorance again. If I'd known about this particular protocol to begin with I'd probably have just tried to make a CAT enabled firmware and then not had to bother with the front-end at all. I have got the UK "Foundation Licence" manual I picked up today so I'm having a read through that.
@@nicsureIt's still a really nice front end , specific to the radio which is nice for regular use and programming, well done! With CAT control protocol in the firmware fork , you could make a front end that used CAT a bit like an API to abstract the radio control details out of the GUI, then your frontend may usable with other radios too, but also other software like APRS (a bit like Radio TXT messaging) / All-star ( a bit like Internet voice radio ) / Winlink ( a bit like Radio email ), and a bunch of other digital mode software will be able to control the radio too, lots of fun! Ham Radio is a "hobby of hobbies" , there are a tonne of niches , and with what you've accomplished here, I think you'd find a bunch of area's that you'd really enjoy. I hope to get you in the log someday ( but please get licensed first! 😀😀 ) 73! ( Ham speak for "best regards" )
@nicsure It's still a really nice front end , specific to the radio which is nice for regular use and programming, well done! With CAT control protocol in the firmware fork , you could make a front end that used CAT a bit like an API to abstract the radio control details out of the GUI, then your frontend may usable with other radios too, but also other software like APRS (a bit like Radio TXT messaging) / All-star ( a bit like Internet voice radio ) / Winlink ( a bit like Radio email ), and a bunch of other digital mode software will be able to control the radio too, lots of fun! Ham Radio is a "hobby of hobbies" , there are a tonne of niches , and with what you've accomplished here, I think you'd find a bunch of area's that you'd really enjoy. I hope to get you in the log someday ( but please get licensed first! 😀😀 ) 73! ( Ham speak for "best regards" )@@nicsure
For some odd reason my Windows 10 does not run the .exe file. I've tried to run it as Admin too, same thing. Any suggestions anyone? I did try the previous release and that has the issue. Firmware loaded and I have the latest .net.
@@Rickg6uztokay, let me release a new one with more debugging systems in place. Hopefully it'll give you some error message that may help identify the problem. Give me a while to get that sorted.
NP. Just another note for you too, now I've uploaded the current Docker firmware I can no longer upload/download using Chirp. I've re-installed the vanilla EGZUMER firmware and I can use Chirp again. A bug?@@nicsure
Don't know what to tell you, it's there for everyone else. Maybe a virus scanner is misidentifying it and deleting it. I know Norton flags it falsely. But then again Norton is a pile of garbage.
**WARNING**
After some unfortunate incidents by users I'm going to put this warning and disclaimer up. DO NOT attempt to transmit without the proper precautions in place. Transmitting 5W of RF energy centimetres away from a PC can LITERALLY destroy it, it's almost like an EMP at that distance. Get your antenna away from the PC.
Tech Minds just did a video about this software. (Gave you credit) Awesome stuff! Edit: NVM, I saw that you replied to that video. None the less, congrats and thanks for this effort!
OMG - how cool is that??? You are really brilliant!!!
Amazing piece of Programming. Well done. Would be great to see a Video on the Batch Cable/Connections you had made to aid in making one.
Ah yes, well even though I have made a cable myself, I'm not BigClive or MrCarlson. It's pretty bodged together and my soldering is worse than an infant could manage. I'm hoping someone else with more practical skills than I will do one.
@@nicsure Be proud it works! Show it off! Who is going to care what it looks?!
thanks , will look to install this tonight
Perfect thanks
The best! Brilliant! Can't wat to try audio!
This is absolutely GENIUS!! I have often wondered if something like this could be done. Now we know lol. My one question is, with this firmware can the radio still be used without being connected to the PC? Like if I want to just take it with me at a particular time and don't have my Windows tablet with me. 😎
Yes, the radio will function without being connected to the PC just as a normal egzumer flashed radio.
@@nicsure Thank you! That is awesome news! Lol this little radio and the devs behind all this just continue to amaze me, thank you! 😎
But without the spectrum analyser.. @@digitalchaos1980
hi, i really appreciate the video, but i stumbled on a problem ... did everything as in the vid.... worked ofc, but i have no audio at all !!! I`m on a Win 11 machine could be this the cause ?
in spectrum analyzer ( from the dock ) i see that there is activity but audio output from my device is zero. Please help.
This is the kind of graphical interface used at my aerospace company. Absolutely brilliant! Got it to display on my windows PC, just need some guidance on audio out... any guidance on obtaining audio on my PC would be greatly appreciated. How do I create the audio cable folks are talking about?
Very clear video. I am still waiting for my K5 to arrive so I cannot try it out for myself yet but do I understand correctly that your firmware includes the egzumer firmware, you just built your PC interface around it? If so, is there a need to do a factory update first or can I directly install Quensheng Dock straight out of the box?
The firmware is a modified fork of egzumer, it is required on the radio for the docking software to work.
Supper Arbeit 👍
It's a great job ! Unfortunately the software dont work with my PC . I use Quansheng UV 5K (8) with Egzumer 0.21 . PC run under Windows 7 Pro. Nothing happen when I open QuanshengDock just the screen used port is OK and my channels in memory mode. It's all. A idea please ? TNX for advance.
Amazing. Thank you for this contribution
Brilliant.
how to make a cable for the
quansheng uv-k5 Remote Dock
audio in and out of the radio to pc and to radio?
Its awesome, thx for this Software!
Any sign this is going to get ported back into mainstream egzumer? I'm using the joaquim for messaging functionality and wouldn't want to sacrifice that....but it's basically a small mod on top of egzumer...so if this is incorporated into the main firmware there's a chance we'll get both. My understanding is that the available memory is the big limiting factor. Version I'm using uses 88% of the available memory according to my flasher. Would love to have both of those features but if picking will stick with short message. I do have a bluetooth flasher so suppose I could go back and forward between firmwares when I wanted to use this. All of this is amazing work from some very talented devs though and we'll get what we get I suppose - betters cannot be choosers and indeed we owe them endless gratitude for turning this cheap radio into something incredible! :-D
It's a lot of work to merge the current egzumer to the dock's version of egzumer. Plus I'll be playing cat and mouse with them every time they update as I have noticed that they seem to be including things that would conflict with my code. It might just be coincidental but then again it may not. Messing with the firmware could cause catastrophic problems, especially when I'll be dancing around conflicting updates. It's a whole bunch of work I would rather not get caught up in.
@nicsure thanks for your work and sorry to hear its been such a headache. Very much appreciated. Is there no scope that egzumer would merge this into their firmware by default and thus it'd be maintained whenever updates occur? From what you're saying about the fact they may be deliberately trying to make it harder I suspect not....anyway really appreciate your work. Frustratingly for me the message function on the current feature is pretty must have for my use case. :-/
perhaps if software on the PC could mimick that function and enable me to switch only one of my radios to this format and use the PC to pick up the received messages that might work.
Anyway really appreciate your efforts. So amazing seeing what people can achieve where firmwares are modifiable!
amazing piece of kit, one question: if you only have the programming cable will the pc play the audio that the radio receives or do you need the audio cable? cheers - never mind github answered that question lol
And what was the answer?
@@ingeborgsvensson4896 You def need a bunch of audio cables & a resistor... those with no audio line in socket will need to buy a usb audio adapter.
I can't get it to scan my memory channels? I press scan in channel mode but nothing happens.
I got it to work by pushing squelch button twice!
is it only work with your custom firmware? i already have the egzumer firmware on my K6, will it work without flash your firmware?
My custom firmware is needed as it has the extra code required to send the display data to the PC.
Beautiful, great Stuff.
I know you are probably really busy at the moment nicsure. Do you think this could fork into an Allstar node project one day or would it be impossible?
Nothing's impossible I guess. Everything is open source so folk can do whatever they want with it.
do the firmware support the am fix?
When I run the exe, I can see it in task manager, but there is no interface or anything I can interact with. Win11.
Can you see the interface in the Alt-Tab menu?
@@nicsure Sadly, no. It is listed in the task manager, but under Background Processes .. I have a TON of different dev environments on this system, so something in that might be the issue. VS Studio, Android IDE, Arduino stuff, and more.
@@TheZolon In that case perhaps cloning the source code and running it in Debug mode from within VS might help to identify the issue? I suspect it might be some .NET6.0 issue between the version you have installed and the version the app is expecting.
Has anyone gotten this to run under windows 11 yet?
Should the spectrum analyser be missing on the radio itself with this firmware?
Yes, there's not enough room for it. There's very limited flash storage.
Fair enough, i thought that was probably the case. Excellent app though, would this radio work with other SDR software then? @@nicsure
@@AndyMcGeeverPossibly but it would require some kind of interface to talk directly to the BK4819. It looks like egzumer is exploring that however as a recent commit on their original firmware now includes options to read and write BK4819 registers.
Is there a way to expose this as a CAT control device? With the ability to connect it for use with rig control software and other software this would be a great platform for APRS digipeater , All-star node , or even a personal cross repeater with a second radio... even better if the cat control interface could be accessed from Linux on a RaspberryPI ! Great job nicsure!
I bought this radio because I saw a video about the firmware hacks and I wanted to try. I knew virtually nothing about the amateur community. As this project has took off I've been thrown into a world of terminology and jargon that I have no clue about. Whatever you just said there I'm sure I'll understand in a few days, but for now bear with me.
@@nicsureoh wow! That you put this together without already being a ham is impressive! You're in good company then since skuep ( the guy who made the AIOC ) was (is?) also not a ham when they started... I'd encourage you to grab some online study info for the country you're in and get yourself a license to fully open up the hobby to you! As for what I said above, CAT control is a (somewhat) standardized protocol for radio control. There's all sorts of software out there that can interface directly to radios via CAT control over RS232 (originally) , or more commonly these days COM device over USB. If the firmware exposed a COM device for radio control, and used the command format compatible with CAT control, the options would really open up!
@@Wayde-VA3NCANow you see, that's my ignorance again. If I'd known about this particular protocol to begin with I'd probably have just tried to make a CAT enabled firmware and then not had to bother with the front-end at all. I have got the UK "Foundation Licence" manual I picked up today so I'm having a read through that.
@@nicsureIt's still a really nice front end , specific to the radio which is nice for regular use and programming, well done! With CAT control protocol in the firmware fork , you could make a front end that used CAT a bit like an API to abstract the radio control details out of the GUI, then your frontend may usable with other radios too, but also other software like APRS (a bit like Radio TXT messaging) / All-star ( a bit like Internet voice radio ) / Winlink ( a bit like Radio email ), and a bunch of other digital mode software will be able to control the radio too, lots of fun! Ham Radio is a "hobby of hobbies" , there are a tonne of niches , and with what you've accomplished here, I think you'd find a bunch of area's that you'd really enjoy. I hope to get you in the log someday ( but please get licensed first! 😀😀 ) 73! ( Ham speak for "best regards" )
@nicsure It's still a really nice front end , specific to the radio which is nice for regular use and programming, well done! With CAT control protocol in the firmware fork , you could make a front end that used CAT a bit like an API to abstract the radio control details out of the GUI, then your frontend may usable with other radios too, but also other software like APRS (a bit like Radio TXT messaging) / All-star ( a bit like Internet voice radio ) / Winlink ( a bit like Radio email ), and a bunch of other digital mode software will be able to control the radio too, lots of fun! Ham Radio is a "hobby of hobbies" , there are a tonne of niches , and with what you've accomplished here, I think you'd find a bunch of area's that you'd really enjoy. I hope to get you in the log someday ( but please get licensed first! 😀😀 ) 73! ( Ham speak for "best regards" )@@nicsure
Thank you !!!!
For some odd reason my Windows 10 does not run the .exe file. I've tried to run it as Admin too, same thing. Any suggestions anyone? I did try the previous release and that has the issue. Firmware loaded and I have the latest .net.
Do you have Windows Sandbox enabled? If so try to see if it runs in that.
I'm afraid not. I think that's not available in my version of Windoz 10 Home (?). The only other PC's here are Linux only.@@nicsure
@@Rickg6uztokay, let me release a new one with more debugging systems in place. Hopefully it'll give you some error message that may help identify the problem. Give me a while to get that sorted.
github.com/nicsure/QuanshengDock/releases/tag/0.31.2d
NP. Just another note for you too, now I've uploaded the current Docker firmware I can no longer upload/download using Chirp. I've re-installed the vanilla EGZUMER firmware and I can use Chirp again. A bug?@@nicsure
A great tool. I only have a problem with editing a channel group, when I want to create a group, the program closes (Win 10).
What version are you running? It's displayed bottom left on the settings window.
V027.6q
V0.27.6q (When you first started the program, it downloaded the Net framework library)
@@procek8 Okay, I'm assuming you are getting a shutdown when clicking the group button after selecting the channels you want to group?
Yes exactly . I select several channels to group, click group and close. Thank you for your quick replies.
Will this work on windows 7
I have no idea sorry.
i dont seem to have any exe file!.
Don't know what to tell you, it's there for everyone else. Maybe a virus scanner is misidentifying it and deleting it. I know Norton flags it falsely. But then again Norton is a pile of garbage.
Tolong buatkan kostum frimware egzumer dengan tx on usb.
wow, ok. but now in english so that people can understand?
Ok 73 da iu8jpo Giovanni Napoli italia