[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Tim Böttcher]

iSH has also been crashing/freezing for me ever since I updated to iOS 26. Not even uninstalls fixed it for me. Prior to that, it was fairly neat, actually.

As for portable Linux setups, I'm with Nicolas on the RaspBerry Pi.

The main issue is that you also need a power bank or similar mobile power source capable of sustaining the RaspBerry Pi and any attached devices. Those power banks exist, but aren't exactly tiny. So it's somewhat portable, certainly less bulky than a laptop, but you still needat least your Braille display, RaspBerry Pi and a power bank for a minimal setup. Also note that the video dummy necessary to make Orca think there's a screen attached is, as far as I know, only available on Xorg, not Wayland. So if you want a GUI, that limits you to Xorg for now.

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> Am 28.12.2025 um 22:20 schrieb Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net>:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2025, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> 
>> Nicolas Pitre (2025/12/27 12:55 -0500):
>>> For a much Linux-like experience on iOS I recommend iSH instead. It is
>>> also fairly VoiceOver friendly.
>> 
>> And do you use itwish speech only, or also with VoiceOver's braille
>> support?
> 
> Never tested it with braille. In fact I very rarely use VoiceOver with
> braille.
> 
>> Actually, as far as I am concerned, the thing that I'd like is the
>> ability to run Emacs on iOS and the ability to use it in braille as
>> comfortably as I do with BRLTTY on Linux. Do you see any reasonable way
>> to achieve this?
> 
> Unfortunately, no.
> 
>> Perhaps a mode of BRLTTY where it would embed its own terminal
>> could help? Of course, that would mean that one may wnat to also deal
>> with displaying the terminal on the phone's screen, but in a way that
>> wouldnot have to be a priorityeither and could even be seen as an
>> advantage if you have on one side the active app that you handle
>> withVoiceOver and on the other side your system that you handle
>> with BRLTTY.
> 
> BRLTTY can already run its own built-in terminal. And that'd would work
> with iSH. The part that won't work is the actual access to the braille
> device.
> 
>> In case that wouldn'tbe possibleon iOS, I might consider having a second
>> portable device just for that, as I really feel something ismissing in
>> my organization in that I cannot easily read and editmy Org files. By
>> not easily I mean without using both my laptop andbraille device.
> 
> I'm pretty sure Some braille devices are running Linux internally.
> But manufacturers won't tell you of course.
> 
> My main "portable" setup currently consists of a Raspberry Pi 500.
> It is smaller / lighter / cheaper than a laptop. But you still have to
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