[BRLTTY] mantis q40

Mario Lang mlang at blind.guru
Tue Feb 9 12:04:36 EST 2021


Florian Beijers <florianbeijers at gmail.com> writes:

> Just tried pairing my APH Mantis q40 to a Kali machine running brltty 6.3, but
> brltty seems to be unable to recognize it.
> I''ve set the brailleDevice directive in brltty.conf to Bluetooth:address, where
> address is the address info returns from the bluectl command.
> Enabled and started brltty with sudo systemctl, no errors but no braille either.
> I can't help but notice that there's no driver for it listed in brltty.conf
> either.

The "Mantis Q40" is supposed to work with the HumanWare (hw) driver.

> Is this device supported over Bluetooth?

It should be, since there is an entry for it in bluetooth_names.c.

> If so, how can I further debug?

Looking at the log might be helpful.  Something like

journalctl -u brltty.service

should help in your case.

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