[BRLTTY] Alva Satellite 544

[Paul Scott]

Hi you need to run enable-brlapi.exe as admin, then select brltty from
braille, select braille display from nvda setting.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 12:05 PM Michal Tkacik <tkacik at regedit.sk> 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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