When I turned the radio on, it showed up as “AnyRoad Technology Digital Radio in USB mode” in the hardware list. You have the right cable when a USB device shows up and the radio is switched on. That means when the radio is not connected, it should not show up in the hardware list (or device manager on Windows). Why is that so? The right cable is a purely passive cable, the logic is in the radio. If you now see any USB device related to your radio, you have the wrong cable.

Go to Applications -> Utilities -> System Information.

the radio is NOT connected to the cable) and plug the USB cable into your Macbook.

To find out whether you got the right cable do the following: Reportedly, a batch of the radios had been shipped with the wrong cable a month earlier. When I first wrote in several web forums telling about my problems with the data cable and USB drivers, I got a reply that my Tytera MD 390 probably came with the wrong cable. In addition, we will upgrade the firmware of the MD380 or MD390 GPS.Then we will upload this codeplug via a Linux virtual machine.We will be using Tytera’s original CPS software to program the codeplug and setup the channels, contacts and all settings for the radio.Therefore had to find a workaround solution: I recently received my Tytera MD390 in the mail straight from Shenzhen, China. I am using a Macbook with Mac OS and that makes it challenging to get Tyteras programming software CPS to run, which is a Windows application.Īt first I thought I could simply install Windows 10 on a virtual machine on my Macbook and just upgrade the firmware and upload the codeplug from there. The challenge: Tytera data cable and USB driver problems Please note that this guide is based on my personal tests with the TYT MD390 GPS and comes with absolutely no warranty. This guide should work with the following radios with or without GPS:Īlthough the focus is on Mac OS, thanks to VirtualBox it should also work on Linux. In this article I share how you can upgrade the firmware and also upload a codeplug to the Tytera MD380/MD390 on Mac OS (or Linux) with VirtualBox.

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