MM7DBT Codeplug Editor

No matter how many times I've tweaked the CPS, I see Unprogrammed in the first zone when the radio reboots. Digging deeper, I've found that three of the nine zones I've created have the contacts I've programmed. The other six are showing no contacts, even though they are in the CPS. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong but, for the life of me, I can't figure out what. I've compared the zones that seem to work with the other six in the CPS to see if I could figure out why some appear to work while the others don't. Please help - I would be pulling out my hair if I still had some!

I'd assume you have.. but be sure you update to 0.3.0309.1 since there was an issue with generating the codeplug using the "Write to Radio" buttons.. where it wouldn't actually generate the new codeplug correctly, so anything new you added since reading from the radio or opening a codeplug would not be written..
"Save" and "SaveAs" would work correctly, so saving and then opening the codeplug file then writing it would work fine. However that was fixed in the latest version (0.3.0309.1)

How many contacts do you have?
Current firmware will only allow 255 contacts, closer to about 232 before issues start.
I believe you can have 2000 contacts in your contact list just fine but if you try to set the channel contact to any contact >255 then it will break and you'll see "no contact" on that channel.

As for the "Unprogrammed"
I'm not sure why it would display that, if the zones were written to the radio correctly.


Two things:
Send me the JSON file and I'll write it to my radio through the debugger, where I can see that data that's being written and see if there's an issue there.
also
Download a binary codeplug from your radio and send be the .bin file that it saves, that is the RAW data from the radio before being converted into the readable codeplug.
Maybe I can see in that why it would show as unprogrammed.

To download the binary:
Right click the "Read From Radio" button on the toolbar, you should see the menu for it.
Click that button, it will download the codeplug as normal but then prompt you to save it as a .bin file. Send me that file.

You can attach them to a post here, or if you wish to keep it private.. PM them to me on here, or on Facebook (if it will allow, maybe zip them)

Thank you, Dave, for the quick response. I only entered a few contacts as I wanted to make sure I had the code plug working properly before entering the remainder. I have attached the json file as requested, but when I try to attach the bin file, I get the message "Invalid extension: n0ize.bin" I tried changing the extension to .txt, but I got the same error message. I would appreciate any suggestions you might have in order to send you the .fin file.

Thanks,
Ken, N0IZE

No need to send the bin file, I have sorted the issue

I didn't realise that zone names were not limited to 10 characters when renaming the zone.
Since you had more than 10 characters in some of the zones that meant the rest of the data was out of place, corrupting the zone. Hence showing "Unprogrammed"
This would probably be the issue with contacts as well since the rest of the data would be shifted some bytes because of the earlier zones being too long.

You should be able to open the same JSON file and it will automatically shorten the zone names to 10 characters.
You can then rename them yourself to something that fits within the 10 character limit

Thank you so much, David! I'm so glad you figured it out; and thank you for providing the update to the program. You're the best! Now get some sleep! I feel light as a feather after struggling for days trying to get this to work. Again, thank you!