[BRLTTY] USB support on Active Braille

[Mario Lang]

lars at lamasti.net (Lars Bjørndal) writes:

> Hi, Mario!
>
> You wrote:
>
>> Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> writes:
>>
>>> lars at lamasti.net (Lars Bjørndal) writes:
>>>
>>>> With recent svn versions of BRLTTY, there is something horrible wrong
>>>> with the USB support on Handy Tech Active Braille. The braille display
>>>> isn't updated unless you press a key on the display itself. So if brltty
>>>> is started and you type something at the command line prompt, the typed
>>>> text isn't on the display untill you press a key on the display.
>>>>
>>>> I have firmware version 2.1, which is an unofficial version.
>>>
>>> I can now confirm your problem description on a device with Firmware
>>> 2.5.
>>
>> And here is the real fix, relative to subversion HEAD (r6834).
>
> Today, I upgraded Active Braille to 2.7 and BRLTTY to rev 6925M. (I had
> a source rpm, and used that one for now.) I have two problems when
> running Active Braille on USB:
>
> 1. If Active Braille shows the startup message when starting BRLTTY, I
> get a message about "Saving configuration!". I can cancel that message
> by pressing esc, and activate PC-mode to operate normally with BRLTTY.
> However, this seems to be a bug.

This is related to the internal menu/editor, and not at all with brltty.

> 2. When exiting BRLTTY, I cannot turn off the Active braille. I do need to
> reset it by holding the on/off button for a while.

I am not sure if we can do anything about this.  If the Active Braile
has a "stop sequence" to send when the screen reader terminates, we do
not know about it.

IMO, both your issues are related to the firmware of your device, and
you could try to discuss them with your vendor?

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