[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[tony seth]

Hiya there again Dave:
I'll try that driver then with the latest code when I get back today
and let you know how it goes.
Thanks much again... Take care.
Cheereo!


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