[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Windows

[Lars Bjørndal]

Hi, Dave!

You wrote:

[...]

> Communication is definitely working as it's detecting a Modular Evolution 88. Is that correct?

Yes.

> It's trying to write this line to the display:
> 
>    no attachable console
> 
> This is probably some kind of permissions problem. Do you maybe need to run brltty with some kind of elevated privileges?

Yes, I see now that need. I'm able to log in with a user that has admin privileges, run comand prompt as administrator and run BRLTTY successfully. However, in the daily life it's not very useful.

> The result of writing this line is:
> 
>    missing braille message acknowledgement
> 
> so the driver isn't getting an expected response from the device.
> 
> Do you know if this works or doesn't work on Windows 10?

In Windows 10 it worked perfectly without admin privileges.

Thanks,

Lars