[BRLTTY] Braille voyager 70

[Bram Duvigneau]

Hi,

If you use ALVA BC in JAWS/Window-eyes and that works, it should work in
NVDA as well. All those drivers should be based on the same DLL (e.g.
they should share the driver code).

Bram
On 11/18/2015 5:49 PM, Alexander Masic wrote:
> I try that. both in BRLTTY and NVDA without any results. My
> unprofesional gues is that the problem is that the brailledisplay
> diden't show up as normal device do when you conect it to a computer.
> But you have right. In jaws i selected Alva bc 640, or what it was????
> But there is specific drivers wich comes with the converter for jaws,
> Window eyes and some more screenreader. So my amatur gues is that the
> driver in nvda or brltty must be modify in order to work with this
> converter.
>
>
>
>
> Den 2015-11-18 kl. 17:30, skrev Bram Duvigneau:
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I remember correctly, Optelec made a converter device that converts
>> the old Voyager protocol to the Alva BC protocol. If that's the case,
>> please try NVDA without BRLTTY and just choose the Alva BC display in
>> NVDA's braille settings.
>>
>> Bram
>>
>> On 11/18/2015 5:07 PM, Alexander Masic wrote:
>>> Hehe. I'M not a techguy to understand it clearly. However i conect it
>>> from the brailledisplays uSB-port to the convertbox , and another usb
>>> from the box in to the computer. My gues is the box converts from an
>>> old usb-standard to a newer, or convert from 32 to 64 bit.
>>> Another intresting thing is that Voyager does not shows up in my
>>> device manager. But in devices and printers an unspecific device shows
>>> up as, "USB converter".
>>> However it works very well with jaws and Windows eyes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Den 2015-11-18 kl. 16:13, skrev Dave Mielke:
>>>> [quoted lines by Alexander Masic on 2015/11/18 at 00:38 +0100]
>>>>
>>>>> I have now purchased an Convert box wich Optelec provide. The price
>>>>> was more
>>>>> or less robb. but ok. 70 cells display is 70 cells display. So now
>>>>> it,s works
>>>>> very well with both Jaws 17 and window eyes and other screenreaders
>>>>> running
>>>>> windows 10 64 bit maschine..
>>>> What does the box do? Do you access your Voyager via USB or via a
>>>> serial port?
>>>>
>>>>> But my problem is that i can't get it work together with brltty and
>>>>> NVDA. And
>>>>> i would like to use it with nvda. Because it's better in many
>>>>> situation then
>>>>> Jaws.
>>>> Do you mean directly with NVDA, or do you mean still via brltty?
>>>>
>>>> If you're using brltty, we'd need to see a debug log that shows what's
>>>> happening when the problem occurs.
>>>>
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