[BRLTTY] brailliant bi display support

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/07/30 at 02:41 -0500]

>I've been getting a couple of questions from sonar users about getting
>their braille displays from humanware working with brltty. I know brltty
>supports the brailliant displays, but does it support the newest one,
>called the brailliant bi? 

Yes. Note, though, that the older Brailliant models use the Baum driver whereas 
the newer Brailliant BI models use the HumanWare driver.

>They say when they plug it in nothing happens 

Please ensure that, for a Brailliant BI, 5.4 is being used. There are some very 
important fixes in 5.4 for the HumanWare driver.

>and I'm wondering if maybe it's a bluetooth display. Brltty is using it's 
>stock config file, which autodetects the display,

Brltty, by default, only detects USB devices.

>but does brltty autodetect bluetooth displays? If not, would it be possible to 
>add this? 

Yes, and no. No, because the address of a Bluetooth device can't be guessed, 
so, therefore, must be explicitly specified. Yes, because, if the address is 
specified, brltty can detect which type of braille device it is.

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