I was having trouble with my cable working with windows when zip came across your videos ( thank you) I fired up the raspberrypi followed your directions and on first try everything just worked. I had tried other windows work around but to no avail, not being a true linux buff I was so surprised at the ease of it all. Thanks again.
Excellent video, I seem to have a problem, when I go to “RADIO”, “DOWNLOAD “, the communicate box opens, I select /dev/tty/USB0 for the port, select my radio (Baofeng), select model (UV-5R) but no Cancel/OK box below. I am using the Baofeng supplied USB cable and I have Python 3.9 installed. RPI4-4 with Bullseye. What in the world have I mucked up? Thanks much!
Two things come to mind: is your user in the dialout group? Is the ok button off the screen? Just guessing here. Drop a message over on TOADs discord with a screen pic
Very well done! Clear instructions, short and to the point. Everything was fantastic. I got it all installed but chirp is not recognizing my radio (FT-65r). I plug it in and go to download from radio, nothing happens. Anything thoughts or potential work arounds?
Hello John, I don't have a Yaesu, but usually it comes down to a bad USB-to-Serial Chip (FTDI is the good one, there are lots of fake prolific chips out there, sad) or the audio cables that plug into the radio aren't in all the way. The instructions are pretty close for using a PC/Mac/Pi/Linux box though, so you can also try another computer. If you're on a Mac, I have a video for security issues with chirp also. Let me know how it works out.
@@temporarilyoffline Thank you for the quick response! I have Chirp working on my laptop and it works pretty well with that set up. I may try the whole process again and hopefully it works! :) Thanks again for your help and awesome videos!
I've been fighting with Chirp on my Mac osx 10.12 and getting nowhere. Installed it on my Pi and programmed my radio in about 10 minutes flat! Thanks for this video, very helpful.
Timely video. I have a Pi-400 coming and want to use it for all my ham radio computing needs. It has more USB ports than my laptop (which only has 1) and am eager to put it through its paces.
Finally got Chirp installed and sort of working using the terminal option. I have two Baofeng radios and it only uploads two channels of phone I know there's 127.??
@@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793 This is the one I most recently picked up: amzn.to/3c7Qh7d I have 2 zeros, 1 model b, 1 3b+ and 2 4s I wouldn't recommend going below a 3b+
Yeah it requires Python 3.x ... The version that installs from method 1 now install Chrip ver 0.3.0dev and Python 3.9.2 If you try method 2 it will error out when trying to get python 2.
@@temporarilyoffline haha, good point but I really only have 2 Baofengs (UV9R, UVS9) a TYT-UV88, a Wouxun (KG-UV9PX) and an Anytone AT-D878UVII Plus:) Can never have too many HT's in an emergency to hand out to family but I gotta program them all now,😮 just waiting on the Wouxun from my bud in Texas. Now to find a HF radio, still tossing up what I need, want and can afford without getting caught by the DFP.... Domestic Financial Police!😄👮♀️🚔
I was having trouble with my cable working with windows when zip came across your videos ( thank you) I fired up the raspberrypi followed your directions and on first try everything just worked. I had tried other windows work around but to no avail, not being a true linux buff I was so surprised at the ease of it all. Thanks again.
That's awesome Ron! Thanks for watching.
Excellent video, I seem to have a problem, when I go to “RADIO”, “DOWNLOAD “, the communicate box opens, I select /dev/tty/USB0 for the port, select my radio (Baofeng), select model (UV-5R) but no Cancel/OK box below. I am using the Baofeng supplied USB cable and I have Python 3.9 installed. RPI4-4 with Bullseye. What in the world have I mucked up?
Thanks much!
Two things come to mind: is your user in the dialout group? Is the ok button off the screen? Just guessing here. Drop a message over on TOADs discord with a screen pic
Again, appreciate time and effort the video takes and the I will take a look at Toad’s. Best J
Thanks for sharing I need to put one of these together to keep in my radio bag. It will take up much less space than my laptop.
Look up 73linux or digipi, both are great options for controlling a radio with a pi. And you can swap the SD cards and keep both!
Very well done! Clear instructions, short and to the point. Everything was fantastic. I got it all installed but chirp is not recognizing my radio (FT-65r). I plug it in and go to download from radio, nothing happens. Anything thoughts or potential work arounds?
Hello John, I don't have a Yaesu, but usually it comes down to a bad USB-to-Serial Chip (FTDI is the good one, there are lots of fake prolific chips out there, sad) or the audio cables that plug into the radio aren't in all the way.
The instructions are pretty close for using a PC/Mac/Pi/Linux box though, so you can also try another computer. If you're on a Mac, I have a video for security issues with chirp also.
Let me know how it works out.
@@temporarilyoffline Thank you for the quick response! I have Chirp working on my laptop and it works pretty well with that set up. I may try the whole process again and hopefully it works! :) Thanks again for your help and awesome videos!
Good info, I’ll be coming back in a couple weeks when I get my RPI, 73 and good video as always!
Let me know when you get it!
I've been fighting with Chirp on my Mac osx 10.12 and getting nowhere. Installed it on my Pi and programmed my radio in about 10 minutes flat! Thanks for this video, very helpful.
Awesome, Glad I could help
I got my uv-5r all set up on my raspberry pi 4, thanks to you
Excellent news!
Timely video. I have a Pi-400 coming and want to use it for all my ham radio computing needs. It has more USB ports than my laptop (which only has 1) and am eager to put it through its paces.
That Pi-400 looks sweet! I've got some more pi vids coming out. I think the Pi is the perfect ham radio companion.
Was this on an R Pi 4? Thanks!
This was on a pi 3, but should be the same on 4. Let me know if you get stuck.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you very much for explaining how to do this :) I'm going to give it a try♡♡♡ 👍
Go for it!
Thank you worked perfectly
Glad it helped
Finally got Chirp installed and sort of working using the terminal option. I have two Baofeng radios and it only uploads two channels of phone I know there's 127.??
Are you getting any errors? Maybe try wiping out the channel it stops "at" or "on" and it might have some bad data?
@@temporarilyoffline no errors its only uploading 1,2, and 127 channels. But of course its shows 127 on radio.
@@mikemorris5944 Very strange... try putting them into Chirp in reverse order and see what happens. I'd suspect you'd get 1-125 and then no more.
If raspberry accepts usb, and I have the correct baofeng usb cable, why do I need to build another cable?
No need, the feng cable will work just fine.
@@temporarilyoffline any recommendations which Pi I buy? Something with a gui. I'm never going back to command line Unix 🤣
@@temporarilyoffline something that takes an hdmi cable maybe?
@@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793 This is the one I most recently picked up: amzn.to/3c7Qh7d I have 2 zeros, 1 model b, 1 3b+ and 2 4s I wouldn't recommend going below a 3b+
@@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793 Zero, 3 and 4 models take HDMI, maybe more. I'd go with the 8GB Model 4 I linked above.
Sadly RPi OS bullseye dont like Python2 anymore, but the first method still works fine ;)
Probably time for an update video!
@@temporarilyoffline my programing cable its traveling right now so soon will confirm everything ok with the 1st method ;)
Yeah it requires Python 3.x ... The version that installs from method 1 now install Chrip ver 0.3.0dev and Python 3.9.2
If you try method 2 it will error out when trying to get python 2.
Thank u
U bet!
okay, I just bought 10 Baofengs... now what do I do with them all? 😄📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻
Start a ham club? Donate them to your local school? Leave them on your neighbor's doorstep? I can go on all day.
@@temporarilyoffline haha, good point but I really only have 2 Baofengs (UV9R, UVS9) a TYT-UV88, a Wouxun (KG-UV9PX) and an Anytone AT-D878UVII Plus:)
Can never have too many HT's in an emergency to hand out to family but I gotta program them all now,😮 just waiting on the Wouxun from my bud in Texas.
Now to find a HF radio, still tossing up what I need, want and can afford without getting caught by the DFP.... Domestic Financial Police!😄👮♀️🚔
Thanks Steve great information 73. 2e0ree
UA-cam wasn't supposed to release this video yet... so you're the real First!