[BRLTTY] how to start and stop brltty

[John Covici]

I do have all your rules, but I don't think udev is starting brltty,
not sure why -- maybe because of that modprobe failing -- not sure
which module it is looking for.

Sorry for my immediately previous message, did  not see this one
first.

On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:35:18 -0500,
Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by John Covici on 2021/02/21 at 15:58 -0500]
> 
> >Also, looking at the only service unit, it says RefuseManualStart=true
> >so I seem to have no way to just say systemctl start brltty
> 
> Okay, I understand your question, now. If you really want to just start brltty
> then start the brltty.path unit.
> 
> Just starting brltty, these days, isn't necessarily the right thing to do. This
> is because udev also starts brltty. If you don't have brltty's udev rules then
> just starting brltty is okay. If, however, you do have them then you should
> configure the general brltty to not look for USB devices. An easy way to do
> this would be to have this line in brltty.conf:
> 
>    braille-device bluetooth:
> 
> By the way: It's often handy to check the description within a systemd unit
> file. The brltty.path unit contains this line:
> 
>    Description=Default BRLTTY Instance
> 
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