[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[tony seth]

On 1/6/20, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by tony seth on 2020/01/06 at 09:15 -0800]
>
>>I'll make the attempt on the latest code and try usb.
>
> I've had a closer look at USB and can see similar, though probably much
> less
> severe, problems. :-(
>
>>As for navigation in Brailleback, that seemed to work pretty well. The
>> only
>>thing I had to take into account was the scrolling of the screen but I
>> rather
>>expected that. I was actually able to read pretty well with it when I took
>> the
>>scrolling into account, because not all of the content is visible at once.
>
> It looks like what they did for BrailleBack is to emulate a HIMS device.
> For
> example, as we already know, it's Bluetooth name is SmartBeetle (a HIMS
> model).
> This'd cause BrailleBack to use its HIMS driver. What I think the BrailleMe
> is
> probably doing is converting its own key combinations into HIMS key
> combinations. In other words, what might actually work is for you to use
> brltty's HIMS (hm) driver when using Bluetooth.
>
> And I'm now guessing that, when using USB for NVDA, they're probably doing
> something similar, i.e. converting BrailleMe key combinations into whatever
> NVDA might be looking for. If this is true then, since we have no idea what
> makes NVDA happy, you may be better off using Bluetooth with brltty's hm
> driver.
>
> Of course, this is only just for now. We'll try to fix this all up as best
> we
> can. If the manufacturer won't accept my suggestion then what we may end up
> doing is having brltty's driver unconvert the converted key combinations
> back
> to BrailleMe key combinations.
>
>>Do I want the master branch or is there a later one I should try?
>
> Unless I say otherwise, when I say the latest development code I mean the
> master branch.
>
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