Well, it was a day of nothing but staring at the screen, searching for mistakes to fix what shouldn’t have been broken?
This actually started yesterday when I wanted to update the “code plug” on my DMR handheld. That little radio can only be changed, (add new repeaters, and change all the various functions) by the computer program for it. The damn thing is way more complicated that the old ones were… used to we only need to know the frequency in and out to program a repeater. Then they added in access tones but that is not hard to control either if you had the tone board… but then we get digital DMR radios and they have extra stuff that has to be included. A single repeater on a dedicated set of split frequencies that used to be one channel, can now be as many as a dozen channels , all depending on the additional settings of time slot, talk groups, color codes, etc.…
They put out a new code plug for this area and I wanted to add a new repeater that was to be in Ponca City , as we were going up Saturday to visit in-laws and it would give me a chance to test the new repeater. Well, I got the channels, and the update on the digital contacts all moved across to my code plug (it has a lot more stuff in it since I like to use it in Kansas and Colorado and Dallas). I then went to read off the current code plug and the program software would not talk to the handheld… wasn’t going to no mater how I hooked it up… hum… I had a back up on the shop computer that I use for my other ham radio stuff so went out and got the programing done. So today while I had time I went back to the laptop to find out why the program software wouldn’t work… I didn’t find out so I just “uninstalled” it and the USB driver and started over… worked then? OK… that done I moved on to the blog… I had not updated the theme in some time and recently I had been trying to implement ‘child” themes so I didn’t have to re-install everything every update. “That was recommended to some time ago to keep all the settings of importance separate from the main theme program files so they didn’t get deleted when you updated… ok… I tried that and fought with it for several hours and finally got a version going… so then, lets update the theme and see if the child works. NOPE!… I couldn’t get it to work with the new theme and find the header, menus, etc.… the new theme lost all that in the transfer… according to the forums on that theme… all I had to do was go in and save the setup on header, footer, and body and it would all pop back up… NOPE!… no matter what I tried it just didn’t work out… no header, no menu on the new one and I fought to get all the sidebars back in place that were saved in the child theme either… but I got them in place and finally gave up on the theme… but in the process of flipping back and forth and the Childs… the original theme was broke… then lost… then only the child worked but not sure how as the original was missing some parts? Finally I went back and reloaded a back up copy of the original… reset all the header, menus and images into another ‘recommended “ area so they don’t get deleted and got it to work… then out of curiosity… I tried the new theme and poof it was working? I have no idea what I did or didn’t do that fixed what ever it was that was not working before but at the present time… it seems to be up where it belongs… and all that just took a 12 hour day to not figure out what was broke and by accident make it work…
I ain’t going to argue with it for awhile and see if it continues to work… then make another back up and pray it remains ok…