[BRLTTY] A friend on the Eyes-Free Android list needs help

[Mario Lang]

Mallard <mallard at ilgerone.net> writes:

> Eric Burgraaf, a member of the Eyes-Free group, has written to ask if
> his braille display, a Humanware Brailleconnect, works with
> Brailleback.
> As it isn't in the list of supported evices, I suggested he try BRLTTY.
>
> After installing the app, he sent the below message to the list, which
> I offered to forward here.
>
> He is using a Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch tablet, running Android 4.1.
>
> His post after my signature.
> Ciao,
> Ollie
>
> Alright,  I have brailleconnect up and running.  I've got the input
> service turned on.  So far, brltty has crashed twice, once trying to
> connect the display, and again trying to switch to it's input service
> for braille entry.
>
> I've got my tables set to english canadian (never even new there was
> such a thing, but nice of them to recognize that we speak english too)
> and grade two english.  Unfortunately my display is still showing
> grade 1 braille which is slowing me down.

Press Display2+Display3+Display5 to enable contracted braille, and
Display2+Display3+Display6 to disable it again.

> Also, I wasn't able to find a keybindings tab in the brltty settings.
> So, I'm clueless as to what functions are associated with my braille
> display.

You should be able to switch into the Help screen with
Display1+Display2+Display5.

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CYa,
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