[BRLTTY] BrailleSense QWERTY

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe]

Hi Vincent,

I'm slightly out of topic, but can xou tell me whats your distro and 
your release of brltty? Is your BrailleSense up-to-date? I ask because 
on my Debian 8, BrailleSense is not recognized. brltty says the usb 
descriptor is not present and, indeed, BrailleSense uses a gene!ic usb 
driver and the vendor, ID, etc are blank. Have you experienced this? 
What needs to be updated?

Thanks,

Regards,



Le 14/12/2015 07:35, Vincent LE GOFF a écrit :
> I really don't know, I have never seen a BrailleSense with a Braille
> keyboard.  But I think it's exactly the same device, so the navigation
> keys are probably the same.  I don't know if I mentioned that, but when
> pressing F1 on the display, the help message of BRLTTY for this driver
> is printed.  Quite surprisingly, though, half of the shortcuts are given
> as a Braille shortcut (like, press Space+dot1,dot2,dot3).  But not all
> of them.  So perhaps it's definitely a different driver for the
> BrailleSense with a Braille keyboard and the BrailleSense QWERTY... but
> the latter hasn't updated its help message.
>
> Vincent
>
>
> On 12/13/2015 9:37 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> [quoted lines by Vincent LE GOFF on 2015/12/13 at 20:27 -0800]
>>
>>> I have a BrailleSense U2 QWERTY.
>> Other people who've had the same device - but with a braille keyboard
>> - haven't
>> commented on the four scroll keys not working. Do you know if only the
>> qwerty
>> one has those four keys?
>>
>>> Perhaps that's why it's interpreted as a Braille Edge.
>> No, it's being correctly seen as a Braille Sense. At first I thought
>> that the
>> keys might actually be working. That's why I asked if it might be
>> presenting
>> itself as a Braille Edge.
>>
>>> I do have the /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices file, but I have trouble
>>> copying
>>> it.  When I use scp to do so (that's the way, don't know why I can't
>>> copy
>>> information from my VM), I get an empty file, although the original file
>>> doesn't seem to be empty.
>> It's a special file so maybe it's having odd characteristics. Try
>> copying it to
>> a regular file first. If that doesn't work, try editing it, and then,
>> from the
>> editor, save it to a regular file.
>>
>>> A braille-parameter sounds fine to me.  If it's just something to
>>> update in
>>> the 'brltty.conf', that's simple.
>> Yes, it'd be that simple.
>>
>>> Are these navigation keys used (under different codes) by the other
>>> BrailleSense versions though?
>> No, but their physical codes are mapped differently on a Braille Edge.
>> Our
>> driver can handle that, though.
>>
>>> I will send you the more complete log tomorrow if it's okay, with
>>> most of the keys I can find.  I'll label them precisely.
>> That's fine. Thanks.
>>
>
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