[BRLTTY] [SOLVED] Re: Connection problem with Active Braille on BT

[Lars Bjørndal]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:19:20PM +0200, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> Hi, Maria!
> 
> Thank you for your quick response. You wrote:
> 
> > Lars Bjørndal <lars at lamasti.net> writes:
> > 
> > > I still have problem connecting a Handy Tech Active Braille through
> > > bluetooth. After updating BRLTTY to 5.2 rev BRLTTY-5.2-481-gb08c90d3M,
> > > I get lot of the following error in /var/log/messages:
> > >
> > > Apr  3 22:40:08 lapx brltty[2077]: hci_get_route error 19: No such
> > > device.
> > >
> > > My Active Braille now has the latest firmware.
> > 
> > I don't have any Active Braille ready for testing, need to check if I
> > can borrow one, that might take a while though.  Meanwhile, one thing
> > comes to mind: Are you sure the device is paired correctly?  Bluetooth 5
> > needs to be configured differently from bluetooth 4.  The old "just edit
> > the pincodes file" trick does no longer work.  What version of the
> > bluetooth stack do you have installed?  I recently updated
> > README.Bluetooth with information how to deal with Bluetooth 5.  If you
> > have that installed, give the new documentation a read.
> 
> Ok. I followed your steps to connect with version 5. I was able to
> pair. However, it still doesn't work, and no I have the following log
> output:
> 
> Apr  4 21:16:39 lapx brltty[2047]: HandyTech Braille Driver: version 0.6
> Apr  4 21:16:39 lapx bluetoothd[855]: Authentication attempt without agent
> Apr  4 21:16:39 lapx bluetoothd[855]: Access denied: org.bluez.Error.Rejected
> ...
> Apr  4 21:16:40 lapx brltty[2047]: missing braille message acknowledgement

At last I did 'connect <device address>' from the bluetoothctl
environment, and all works perfectly. The connect command is not
mentioned in the README.bluetooth file. Maybe it should have been.

Thanks,
Lars