Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-22 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Eric and Discussion of CHIRP, For those who have vision problems including blindness, I heartily recommend SLINT based on Slackware. SLINT stands for SLackware INTernational and it supports many languages and it is the most accessible distribution I know of. There are several speech systems suppo

Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-21 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS_(organization) did it with open document formats. I think Microsoft joined that one with the 2007 issue of MS Office so therer's still hope. > On 21/02/2021 13:11 Eric Oyen via chirp_use

Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-21 Thread Eric Oyen via chirp_users
Actually, that is not a bad idea all things considered. An open API that is standard regardless of OS would make life a lot easier for both the coders and users. Unfortunately, try convincing both Apple and Microsoft of this. Perhaps something like the UEFI consortium might work to get this to h

Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-21 Thread Chuck Hast
I think that this is one that the proprietary folks could take a lesson from Open Source, I know several people who use Chirp on Linux for the open screen reader interface. I think it is time that those two groups stump up and write code that will use the open API rather than force the Chirp coders

Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-21 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
If Chirp is properly screen reader complient on Linux but not on Windows or MACOS then I suggest you contact Microsoft and Apple and ask them to make their screen readers more complient with the open standard used by your Linux screen reader. . > On 21/02/2021 03:54 Eric Oyen via chirp_users >

Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-21 Thread Ernesto Xload
Unfortunatelly I only use linux, but somebody will help you :) Best regards. El dom, 21 feb 2021 a las 11:39, Eric Oyen () escribió: > Ok, that’s new info. thanks. > > However, I have tried Chirp on both Windows and OS X platforms and the > program just won’t work with any of the available scree

Re: [chirp_users] Recommended radio for adding to chirp

2021-02-21 Thread Ernesto Xload
Hello Eric, You con program your Retevis H777 and H777s with chirp just selecting Baofeng BF-888 radio. Chirp is available for Windows and OS X platforms at https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download Best regards El dom, 21 feb 2021 a las 9:55, Eric Oyen via chirp_users (< chirp_u