[BRLTTY] Braille Lite with netbook

[acollins at icsmail.net]

Sorry about that, everyone knows I can't type well.  That's an Alba
bv640.  The important thing is the usb serial addapter for the Espire
One.  I don't have a Braille Lite, but in theory, my solution should
work.

Gene Collins


>Hello Cathy.  I have an Acer Espire One, and two different Braille
>displays. An Alb bc640, and a TSI Power Braille.  As you know, the Acer
>Espire One has now serial ports that the Braille Lite can connect to. 
>This problem is Nop insurmountable however.  You can by a usb serial
>addapter, plug it in to the Espire One, and then set up the serial port
>on the Braille Lite, and then install brltty for Windows, and just open
>notepad to let a sighted person type.  This solution would require the
>sighted person to occasionally exit note pad, and then reenter it,
>because you'll eventually run out of resources, disk space, memory, etc,
>but it should work.  The last time I bought a usb serial addapter from
>Best Buy, they cost about 30 dollars.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Gene
>
>
>
>>My goal is to connect a Braille Lite to an Acer Aspire One netbook (or any la
p
>top) so that a sighted person can type via QWERTY keyboard and have a deafblin
d
> person read out the communication on the Braille Lite. (Face-to-face communic
a
>tion) I'm having a hard time finding the right cable for one thing but I'm sti
l
>l working on that. Besides that, would brltty help me in getting the two devic
e
>s to communicate with each other? Or am I meowing up the wrong cat tree? I sur
e
> could use some helpful feedback. Your website looks hopeful. Thx very much. 
>>
>>CathyM
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