[BRLTTY] EasyBraille autodetection

Alex Bernier alex.bernier at free.fr
Sun Oct 20 04:11:52 EDT 2019


On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 12:59:52PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Alex Bernier on 2019/10/19 at 11:09 +0200]
> 
> >With BRLTTY 6.0, the auto-detection of EasyBraille 40 in Bluetooth stops to
> >work.
> 
> Are you saying that it did work in the previous release (5.6)?

Yes

> 
> >In my setup, three devices are paired. My /etc/brltty.conf looks like :
> >
> 0>  braille-device usb:,bluetooth:00:18:9A:25:79:81 # Hims SmartBeetle
> >  braille-device usb:,bluetooth:00:18:DA:04:07:70 # HandyTech EasyBraille 1
> >  braille-device usb:,bluetooth:00:18:DA:04:07:AD # HandyTech EasyBraille 2
> 
> When you have more than one braille-device line, only the last one is used. If
> your goal is to recognize any USB device and all three Bluetooth devices then
> you need to put all four device identifiers on the same braille-device line.
> 
> >When the SmartBeetle is off and the EasyBraille is on, the EasyBraille is
> >wrongly detected by the hm driver as it was a BrailleSense (see lines 353-358
> >of the attached log).
> 
> There must be a similarity in the probe. It's been a while so I'd have to check
> to be sure. This being said, the normal case is that the Bluetooth name would
> guide brltty to selecting the correct driver. What's the Bluetooth name (case
> is important) of the braille device?

Easy Braille EBR/D4-17419
SmartBeetle(b)00517

Alex


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