[BRLTTY] Alva Satellite 544

[Teijo Burman]

Hello,

I have used brltty version 6.4.1. Fair year ago that was most recent 
version I got to work. It works more or less reliably - it's better that 
you test it yourself to estimate how well it works in your environment. 
I do not say that for example current brltty version would not work but 
I have not tried

I have used it through usb serial converter (no legacy serial port 
available in my windows laptops).

Best regards,

Teijo

On 12.3.2026 18.59, Michal Tkacik wrote:
> Dear listers,
> 
> 
> this is my first time in the list, my name is Michal and I work as a 
> head coordinator of the Braille Authority of Slovakia. I also serve as a 
> tech support in our library for the blind in Slovakia, mostly regarding 
> the braille technology.
> 
> Recently we have some issues with braille displays of our transcribers, 
> early repairs of braille Focus displays and so on. And I found out we 
> still have some old Alva Satellite 544 displays stored and unused, so I 
> would like to give them a try, the cells seems to be working just fine 
> even after 20 years.
> 
> Therefore I installed BRLTTY on my windows 11 and   connected the 
> Satellite through serial port com1.
> 
> After configuring it, I was able to run run-brltty.bat and received a 
> positive feedback, the display was reacting and in terminal mode is 
> displaying some information. Display is reacting, after pressing left 
> key - BRLTTY.exe: ignored byte 0D
> 
> 
> 
> Could you, please advice me, how to bring it to work with NVDA? I set up 
> the display as brltty in NVDA, but nothing happens.
> 
> Any advice will be highlly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Michal
> 
> 
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