[BRLTTY] Alva Satellite 544

[Michal Tkacik]

Dear Martin,

thank you for this advice. It worked like a charm.

I was able to uninstall 6.8, install 6.4, run brlapi and NVDA just 
grasped Alva and all is working.

Thank you very much.

Michal


On 3/12/2026 6:37 PM, Martin Murdoch wrote:
> Hi, I also use Alva terminals with BRLTTY and NVDA - I've found that 
> the latest versions of BRLTTY do not function for me - the last 
> version I have got working and am using is 6.4 - might be worth a try 
> for you.
>
>
> On 12/03/2026 16:59, 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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