[BRLTTY] Raspberry Pi bluetooth pairing question

[Keith Wessel]

I haven't been brave enough to try the 64-bit beta of Raspbian. With my wife and kids dependingon the NAS that it hosts, I'm not terribly risk tolerant. Is there a way to get brltty 6.0 for the standard 32-bit Raspbian 10 release? I admit, I didn't get any more creative than just apt install brltty. The download page on the brltty web site says that Debian packages are available from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/brltty/, but I don't know if that includes binaries built for ARM, and since my browser tells me that ftp.debian.org refuxed to connect, I couldn't tell.

Keith




-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of J. R. Westmoreland
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 9:56 PM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. <brltty at brltty.app>
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Raspberry Pi bluetooth pairing question

I have Brltty 6.0 installed on my Gentoo Pi64 cluster but haven’t played much with it yet.

Since my Focus 40 5th gen supports up to 6 connections at a time this could be fun. LOL 1 connection to the Mac, 1 to the iPac, and 4 for the cluster notes. What more fun can you ask. Just need to get the Kubernetes stuff running and the fun will start.

J. R.






> On Jul 20, 2020, at 4:17 PM, Keith Wessel <keith at wessel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey, Dave,
> 
> Yes, that's correct. I didn't have a braille-device line in my brltty.conf.
> If I read the docs correctly, the default is usb:,Bluetooth:. I paired 
> then ran systemctl start brltty, and no go. But I ran brltty -d 
> Bluetooth:<address_here>, and it worked. I also tried brltty -d Bluetooth:
> with no address to see if something system was doing was the issue. In 
> other words, I started brltty manually but tried to get it to 
> autodetect Bluetooth. No luck. Only way I've gotten it to work was 
> specifying the Bluetooth address.
> 
> This is on the latest Raspbian release which seems to be running brltty 5.6.
> I was a little sad it wasn't version 6.
> 
> I can re-test if you think it should be autodetecting.
> 
> Keith
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Dave Mielke
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 2:21 PM
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> <brltty at brltty.app>
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Raspberry Pi bluetooth pairing question
> 
> [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2020/07/20 at 13:48 -0500]
> 
>> For whatever reason, brltty with bluetooth: wasn't auto-detecting my 
>> Focus 80. After pairing, I specified the full Bluetooth address to 
>> brltty, and it worked!
> 
> Are you saying that brltty wasn't autodetecting your braille device 
> AFTER it had been paired?
> 
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