[BRLTTY] Using Brltty for Android without TalkBack

[Siena Trigiani]

Hi Brian,

The Braille Display I have is a BraillePen 12 Touch. It doesn't have USB 
support, and can only be connected via Bluetooth. On the Android app, there 
doesn't seem to be any drivers for that particular display, but Brltty 
auto-detects the BraillePen when it's paired via Bluetooth to my tablet.

Will try to google the commands and see what I can find.

Thanks again!


On June 2, 2018 8:36:18 PM Brian Tew <montanalag at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe those commands would be device specific.
> What braille display will you use?
> you can google "brltty commands display-name."
> But I don't mind noing it if it's a problem for you.
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2018, at 5:44 PM, Siena Trigiani <siena.trigiani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Although I have been using Android since March of 2015, I am very new to 
> the Brltty app and to this list, so I hope that I am asking this question 
> in the right place.
>
> Yesterday I installed the Brltty app for Android. I have a BraillePen 12 
> Touch display from a company called Harpo. Although Brltty does not have 
> the drivers for this particular display, I was able to pair it using the 
> auto-detect function. However I don't know any of the commands to go to the 
> previous and next item, jump to top or to bottom of the screen etc. I have 
> a faulty joystick on my display, and I can't seem to get it into the down 
> position for some reason, and even when I flick it to the left or to the 
> right, it does not go to the previous or next item. Thus, I have difficulty 
> reading through apps such as the Play Store and AquaMail, which is the app 
> that I use to read my emails. I tried using Dots 1 chord through Dot 6 
> chord individually to move forward or backwards one item at a time, but 
> they didn't seem to be consistent. I tried reading the blurb on the Brltty 
> website on Using Brltty for Android, and there doesn't seem to be any 
> specific documentation to clarify this. I
>  would like to suspend TalkBack and use Brltty without having to depend on 
>  TalkBack to navigate and read the screen from top to bottom. Perhaps there 
>  is something that I am not doing correctly? In the Brltty actions menu, 
>  when I go to read the user guide, Brltty crashes, and I get that all too 
>  familiar message: "Unfortunately, Brltty has stopped." Running Brltty on an 
>  RCA Viking Pro tablet running Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
>
> Could anyone on the list please send me a copy of the user guide for Brltty 
> for Android off list? Does Brltty have a list of Braille keyboard shortcuts 
> for navigating?
>
> Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Siena.
>
>
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