[BRLTTY] Bluetooth and refreshabraille

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Dec 29 01:49:23 EST 2009


[quoted lines by Zachary Kline on 2009/12/28 at 22:29 -0800]

>I'm trying to connect to my refreshabraille 18 via bluetooth so I can
>avoid using USB cables.  My device is paired with the computer, I
>believe, and I have an appropriate braille-device specification in the
>/etc/brltty.conf file.  
>Nevertheless, I see the following in my logs:
>brltty[13712]: Unsupported device: bluetooth:00:17:91:03:38:CE
>The display is unresponsive.
>I am using brltty packaged for ArchLinux.  Is there a possibility this
>was built without bluetooth support?

Yes, that's exactly what it looks like. The "unsupported device" message means 
that the bluetooth: qualifier isn't supported, which would only be the case if 
bluetooth support were omitted when brltty was built.

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