[BRLTTY] Brltty beep on android

payman shaykhmehdi payman.shaykhmehdi at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 02:52:29 EDT 2018


>
> Now to your beep issue. I think it's caused by this:
>
>    unhandled command: 00FF
>
> Brltty does beep when it receives a command from the braille driver that it
> doesn't recognize.


Is there any difference between command handlers in Android and linux?
Because with the same driver I don't receive "unhandled command" warning.
Also in my driver I just send key press/release events.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> It looks like you aren't using the latest brltty apk. That may mean that
> many
> problems have been resolved since the one you're using. Perhaps you should
> upgrade.
>
>
>
> You're getting this log once in a while:
>
>    checkTalkbackEnable : false, accesibilityService :
> org.a11y.brltty.android/org.a11y.brltty.android.BrailleService
>
> While it's harmless enough, brltty, at least for now, works better when
> TalkBack is enabled. The reason is that brltty uses the Accessibility Focus
> feature, which, unfortunately, isn't implemented as a standalone
> capability.
> It's part of Explore By Touch, which, in turn, is paty of TalkBack.
>
> I know of one user who has solved this problem by installing a null TTS.
> So,
> even though TalkBack is active, nothing is spoken. I forget it's exact
> name at
> the moment, but searching the store for something like null tts should
> find it.
>
> The first part of your log contains these logs:
>
>    malloc error 11: Try again.
>    malloc error 5: I/O error.
>
> Whenever either of these occurs, it's imediately followed by this one:
>
>    Bluetooth connect failed: B8:27:EB:BB:3C:85: Bluetooth is off
>
> When Bluetooth is finally on, you get this pair of logs:
>
>    Bluetooth connect failed: B8:27:EB:BB:3C:85: bt socket connect failed
>    Bluetooth connect failed: B8:27:EB:BB:3C:85: read failed, socket might
> closed or timeout, read ret: -1
>
> These are okay. They just mean that brltty couldn't connect to the braille
> device. The Java Exception for this case isn't specific enough for brltty
> to
> know the precise cause of the connection failure.
>
> Now to your beep issue. I think it's caused by this:
>
>    unhandled command: 00FF
>
> Brltty does beep when it receives a command from the braille driver that it
> doesn't recognize.
>
> You're also getting these:
>
>    Unexpected Packet: 04 00 80 00 FF 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10
> 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 0B 1A 1B 1C 1D 20 82
>
> Since I believe this is your own protocol, I'm not sure how significant
> they
> are.
>
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