[BRLTTY] brltty-latest.apk

[Mario Lang]

"S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:55:57AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> [quoted lines by Dietmar Segbert on 2013/04/07 at 16:28 +0200]
>> 
>> >In the settings for accessibility i can activate brltty, bt if i activate  
>> >setting of brltty), a message "brltty stopped OK" appears on the screen.
>> > Must i activate some other settings?
>> 
>> No. When you get that dialog, it means that brltty has probably crashed. What 
>> we need you to do, as soon as possible after such a crash, is to capture a log 
>> and send it to us (attaching to a message to this list is fine). There are 
>> notes in README.Android on how to do this. The command is:
> I'm a little behind here. Do we have a version of brltty running on
> Android?

Yes.

> Can it drive a display via USB? The BT chip in my display seems to be
> dead and I would very much like to try this, if possible.

If your phone can behave as a USB host (also called OTG these days) and
you have a proper cable for it, yes, this should work.  I haven't done
so myself since as I understand it, I would need to root our Nexus S to
enable its USB host capabilities, but I understand that Dave is or has
been using BRLTTY via USB on Android.


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