CHIRP

Tandy Bozeman wrote:

After having problem getting Chirp to recognize my Radioddity GA-510 USA connection on a MacBook, I moved to my iMac and installed CHIRP on my iMac running IOS 10.14 and attempted to connect to the radio. With the more direct USB connection to the iMac I was able to get CHIRP to recognize the Radioddity GA-510 and start the download from the radio . However, the Radio appears to complete the download (bar goes on the far right) but fails to complete the transfer and CHIRP returns the error message “Failed to download from radio: an integer is required".

I have Python 3 installed on the Mac

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Tandy,

I'm not familiar with MacOS but I think I can help point you in the right direction. Do you have a Windows machine/laptop around to try to ensure it's not a problem with the Mac?

Also the debug.log and CHIRPlinkProblem.jpg files are corrupt. Could you generate a fresh debug log after the error appears (perhaps from the windows box).

Tony

Not sure why a problem with the last two lines, but here they are again:
I bought the Radioddity GA-15 on sale on a whim as a backup radio for use with an Emergency Ham Net here in the California
mountains, a area the was recently in the middle of the Dixie Wildfire.
I also have a Yaesu FT-3 with works great great with RT System programming software.
Also have a Yaesu FT-8900 and RT Systems software for that.
Tony and Jim, my thanks for looking at the problem.
It certainly was a learning experience for me.
I got a HAM license a couple years ago to participate in our local Emergency Ham Net.
I still have a lot to learn, obviously.

Tandy Bozeman wrote:

Not sure why a problem with the last two lines, but here they are again:
I bought the Radioddity GA-15 on sale on a whim as a backup radio for use with an Emergency Ham Net here in the California
mountains, a area the was recently in the middle of the Dixie Wildfire.
I also have a Yaesu FT-3 with works great great with RT System programming software.
Also have a Yaesu FT-8900 and RT Systems software for that.
Tony and Jim, my thanks for looking at the problem.
It certainly was a learning experience for me.
I got a HAM license a couple years ago to participate in our local Emergency Ham Net.
I still have a lot to learn, obviously.

I would expect that you used the *pre* formatting tags on those lines, like this.

Basically this ticket is a dupe of "ticket 8295":https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8295. Todd explains how he was getting the "Failed to download from radio: an integer is required" and resolved the issue by adding the python-future package. The difference is that he was running Linux instead of macOS.

Installing Python 3.x.x does nothing because CHIRP still uses and requires Python 2. That is why the macOS build of CHIRP is now packaged as a macOS Unified Application. It brings along Python 2 and a few other dependencies that are no longer supplied by macOS. It unfortunately doesn't include the python-future package (which is needed by 5 CHIRP drivers including the one for the GA-510).

I don't know anyone that has added python-future to macOS and I do think that is probably because it is not available for macOS.

Jim KC9HI

Hi Tandy,
If you have MacPorts installed - it has the future library, try:

sudo port install py27-future

If you have pip (py-pip, the pipit install utility) installed you can use it as well:

try:

pip install future

or:

python -m pip install future

Ran

Ran Katz wrote:

Hi Tandy,
If you have MacPorts installed - it has the future library, try:

sudo port install py27-future

If you have pip (py-pip, the pipit install utility) installed you can use it as well:

try:

pip install future

or:

python -m pip install future

Ran

+1 if this works. Thanks Ran!