[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Tim Böttcher (2025/12/28 23:19 +0100):
> 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.

Regarding the source of energy, that was actually the beauty of Mario's
solution based on Handy Tech's Active Star. That device has a
compartment inside of it which hadoriginally been conceived for you to
put a phone inside of it. The use-case is that the phone connects to the
braille display through bluetooth, and in addition this compartment had
a small wire through which you could plug your phone to the braille
device's battery. And so Mario's idea was to put a raspberry pi into it.
I know another list memberwho does or at least did the same with
success. On my side, I did want to do the same but always had issues in
peering the RPi with the braille device, which I found quite a pity.

Coming to what Nicolas says about braille devices running Linux, I think
that this is the case e.g. for Eurobraille's last device whose name I
can't remember right now. Linux also seems popular among portable
digital book players, as I am sure Nicolas knows. ;-)

But it seems that nowadays Android has become a serious concurrent for
Linux in that field. Maybe one way out would be to look into Linux-based
phones?

Seb.