[BRLTTY] The braille keyboard on my display doesn't work

Bertil Smark Nilsson bertilsn at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 21:04:45 EDT 2021


I did try space+k+8.
It didn't work. My BI 14 is connected to /dev/ttyACM0. My QWERTY keyboard is connected to the PC . My BRLTTY version is 5.4.

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> On 1 Sep 2021, at 10:26 am, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Bertil Smark Nilsson on 2021/09/01 at 08:56 +1000]
> 
>> Nothing  happens when I press space+k.
> 
> Well, I did say that it's Spae+k+Dot8 to enable and Space+k+Dot7 to disable. In other words, Space+k (without either Dot7 or dot8 added) won't do it.
> 
>> The joystick doesn't work either.
> 
> Which braille device are you using?
> 
>> Is there a way to access the preferences menu from the QWERTY keôboard?
> 
> Do you mean that your braille device has a qwerty keyboard? If so, that, too, depends on which braille deivce you have. Some present a HID keyboard to the host and others include their qwerty keyboard events as part of their braille driver protocol.
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