[BRLTTY] BrlAPI in Windows

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Lars Bjørndal, on lun. 23 oct. 2017 21:13:14 +0200, wrote:
> I have cygwin 64bit installed, and I've compiled BRLTTY.

Is there are reason for not using the pre-built BRLTTY?

> When connecting the display through bluetooth, I can use the console
> by specifying com5 as braille device to BRLTTY. However, when trying
> to get NVDA to use the BRLTTY driver, it says it couldn't connect.

Doesn't it tell a bit more than this?  The exact technical details of
error messages are always terribly important to get any clue of what
steps might be going wrong.

> Does anyone ave a solutin to that?

I can only try to divine.

I guess you checked that brltty is running properly?

Normally when built with cygwin it will open both a local socket and a
tcp/ip socket, and the latter should be alright for NVDA to connect to.
If you know how to, you could try to connect to TCP port 4101 of
IP 127.0.0.1 and check whether you get a connection refused.

Normally, on win32 the default is no authentication, but perhaps you
have something configured in brltty.conf or such, and you could try to
append

api-parameters Auth=none

to the end of the installed brltty.conf, or start brltty with
-A auth=none , to make sure that it doesn't try to make the client
authenticate itself.

But again, getting the exact error message would help a *lot* to know
which kind of the above guess would be closest to the actual issue.

Samuel