ephemer0l / py3-chirp

A fork of CHIRP for testing with Python3.

py3-CHIRP

A fork of CHIRP for testing with Python 3.

What's Different?

The official CHIRP project's main branch does not support Python 3 and depends on pygtk which hasn't seen a stable release since April 2011.

py3-CHIRP is a fork of the py3 branch of the official CHIRP project.

py3-CHIRP will use the wxPython GUI toolkit. Code using the Gtk GUI will be migrated.

Dependencies

py3-CHIRP has been tested in Python3.9 on various platforms. Known dependencies that don't come out of the box with Python are as follows:

• pyserial
• wxPython
• future
• six
• pypiwin32 (for Windows)
• pyGObject (For the time being)
• libpython-dev (For Ubuntu users)

Testing

For a list of supported radios (tested and untested) see RADIOS.md

Running py3-CHIRP

chirpwx.py

DO NOT USE chirpw

REFERENCE

Wiki

• GitHub

Repo Source (Forked From)

• Mercurial Repository: http://d-rats.com/hg/chirp.hg
• Revision: py3
• Number: 3351:68534f20c141

Bugs and Patches Submitted to Official Project

• https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8475 - Fixed old Python2 Syntax
• https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8545 - Syntax Errors in Driver Files
• https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8549 - Updated string.uppercase to string.ascii_uppercase

Related Bugs in Gentoo

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/708304 - Removed CHIRP from Portage

The Story

When I first started using Gentoo again CHIRP was still a part of the main Gentoo Portage Repository.

Eventually Gentoo began migrating away from Python2 and due to a lack of movement in the official project it was removed from the official Gentoo repository.

I still needed to configure my radios and maintain an up to date Gentoo desktop so I cloned the py3 branch from the official CHIRP project and fixed a few syntax errors leftover from Python2 and everything worked great.

I was able to download an image from my BF-F8HP, fully reconfigure it and upload the new image back to my radio.

After this initial test I started bugging the developers maillinglist of the main project for more information. A few individuals reached out offering help and asking me to share what I had. So, this repo was born.