[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[tony seth]

On 1/6/20, tony seth <larimer420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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