[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android with an Actilino from Handy Tech / Help Tech

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2026/02/08 at 18:02 +0100]

>As you're working on a new release, maybe you can see if the problem report I sent in December, can be looked into. Please see below.

i'm sorry. I remember that email but hadn't answered it. I'm glad I'm not in the US as, there, that might be grounds to hae me shot! :-)

>> I've used some hours struggling with BRLTTY on a new Phone, Pixel 10,
>> connected with bluetooth to an Actilino 16 cells braille display. Here
>> are som findings that maybe can be looked into:

Since I don't have one of those, I can't experiment directly. Do you know how to use the adb command on Linux to upload the Android log from your phone?
 
>> - The documentation says you can go to the Actions Screen by pressing
>>   space+dot12345678. However, this doesn't work from Actilino, neither when
>>   braille input is on nor if it's off.

I can at least tell you that whether or not brltty is your Android keyboard doesn't matter. That binding should just work. If, instead, you're referring to some Actilino setting that turns braille input on or off, I don't know.

>> - The Global Actions can be reached using the funciont keys. On the
>>   Actilino you can perform the f1--f16 using the respective cursor
>>   routing key in combination with LeftRockerUp+LeftRockerDown. However,
>>   I cannot find this combination noted in the key map documentation.

Yes, that's the way it currently is. Those actions are bound to the function keys within the underlying Android code so the key table is unaware of them. I'll take this as a reminder to try to come up with a way to fix that.

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