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

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I have a Brailliant BI40 and I had to do pair, trust, and connect for
things to work.  Even then, it would die at times, it seemed very
sensitive to signal strength.

Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:

> Lars Bjørndal <lars at lamasti.net> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The devices I tested so far did not need "connect" to be executed.
> So this looks like a Active Braille specific issue to me.
> 
> -- 
> CYa,
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