[BRLTTY] braille star 40

[Cheryl Homiak]

Yes, I think you are right about your hypothesis. It's just that my experience with serial in the past involved either a serial cable or a converter so I wasn't expecting this. But it does make sense.

On Mar 30, 2017, at 2:19 AM, Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH <felix.gruetzmacher at handytech.de> wrote:

Hello,
this might just be me stating the really obvious and making a fool of
myself, but since the FTDI chip emulates a serial connection through USB and
the FTDI driver takes care of that, wouldn't it make sense for the device to
appear as serial rather than USB? At least on Windows when I connect this
kind of device I get a COM port, and my Braille driver doesn't see this as
USB at all.
Sorry in case this turns out to be utterly irrelevant to the problem at
hand.
Kind regards,
Felix

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: BRLTTY [mailto:brltty-bounces at brltty.com] Im Auftrag von Cheryl Homiak
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. März 2017 02:15
An: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
Betreff: Re: [BRLTTY] braille star 40

Okay, I got it to work but it's still a bit strange. This is a usb cable
interface but it does not work with usb: and I haven't found a serial number
to try that. What does work is

brltty -b ht -d cu.usbserial-142

which I tried because I found it listed when I tried ls /dev/cu.*

That worked from the command line so I tried putting serial: in front of it
in the brltty.conf even though I know voiceover doesn't support serial
braille displays and that also worked. I do find that if I start brltty and
at some point start voiceover up again the display is immediately pulled
into voiceover for braille instead of brltty whereas with the Braille Edge I
can switch voiceover back on once brltty is running without voiceover
grabbing the braille display. But the main thing is that I do have it
working.
. 
--
Cheryl

May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)


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