Hi Joseph,
Sorry. I'm not smart enough to get this to work with the Mac, mostly because I don't know if there's a driver for the USB to serial adapter in the cable.
The owx I have for Windows, I just ran cygwin and it did the whole build right in cygwin. This is probably a couple versions ago, but here it is:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1053407/owx-win32.zip
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Aug 27, 2011, at 8:20 PM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
> Probably I am not ready for them just yet. I gave OWX a shot, and=20
> nothing I could do would get it to work for me on a Mac. I think you=20
> said there was a Windows build somewhere, but I could not find it. =20
> If it is out there, it would require the whole Cygwin environment=20
> because the code pretty much assumes Linux and does not bother to=20
> check for anything else.
>
> I did get CHIRP to work, but it runs under X11 on the Mac. On the=20
> plus side, that means I could configure it to talk by installing the=20
> appropriate accessibility components. Might as well, the runtime=20
> includes Perl, two versions of Python, TCL/TK, GTK+, Pango, and=20
> basically the greater part of a full Linux desktop. Yeesh.
>
> What these two projects have going for them is that CHIRP works and=20
> is written in pretty basic and understandable Python, and OWX is far=20
> more complete and written in pretty basic C++.
>
> This afternoon, I=E2=80=99ve already got a fairly robust bit of code to=20
> detect a Wouxun radio connected to any serial port in an enumerated=20
> list of acceptable ports. At the moment, I=E2=80=99m borrowing that list=
> of=20
> ports wholesale from CHIRP, so it=E2=80=99s basically variations on=20
> /dev/cu.usbserial for the Mac and a whole bunch of device names for=20
> Linux. I haven=E2=80=99t forgotten about Windows, but I=E2=80=99m not th=
> ere yet.
>
> I=E2=80=99ve dumped the Wouxun memory to my screen, but not actually pars=
> ed=20
> it yet. I found (yet another) IOKit bug to do with USB devices in=20
> the process. In fact, I think this is the same bug Florent Pillet=20
> and I reported to Apple seven years ago. *sigh* In fact, I think=20
> Florent actually sent them a PATCH! Winning the future, Apple!
>
> Right now the code is Python because I am prototyping. Were it just=20
> for me, the code would remain in Python. It is actually pretty easy=20
> to make Python "binaries" for Windows, but the GUI is usually not=20
> going to be accessible that way. Nope, I am going to have to port=20
> this to C at some point, once I am satisfied that I have a robust=20
> means of talking to the HT.
>
> I may not have time to work on it for a week or so.
>
> Joseph - KF7QZC
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:06:11AM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>> Bear in mind it doesn't grok .tw files, however.
>>
>> I do have some .xls spreadsheets with macros that Dave, K7DB, put =3D
>> together that are supposed to map the .tw files and that have some other=
> =3D
>> magic which supposedly reads and writes .tw files using Excel, but I'm =3D
>> too stupid to figure out how to use them. If you think they'd be =3D
>> helpful, I'm happy to pass those on as well.
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2011, at 5:22 AM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>>
>>> Jackpot, this is what I wanted! It=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D99s written in C=
> ++, =3D
>> but I can r=3D3D
>>> ead=3D3D20
>>> that, and it has a far more complete definition of the protocol=3D3D20
>>> involved.
>>> =3D20
>>> Joseph - KF7QZC
>>> =3D20
>>> =3D20
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:54:52PM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>>>> Hey Joseph,
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Actually, no, not chirp. Hang on, I've got a URL around here=3D3D20
>>>> somewhere to the original GNU/Linux source. I just compiled under=3D3=
> D20
>>>> cygwin as well and included the cygwin bits for Windows use.=3D3D20
>>>> However, what these guys have done might be useful to you.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Ah. Here we are. Haven't looked at this in a long time.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> http://owx.chmurka.net/
>>>> --
>>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>>>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
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