[BRLTTY] Question about Supported Braille Displays

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Kihoon Ahn on 2018/03/21 at 19:55 -0400]

>I am planning to purchase "HIMS Smart Beetle Bluetooth USB UltraPortable
>Braille Display Keyboard" (https://www.enablemart.com/
>smart-beetle-braille-display?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIl7S1y77-2QIVT4J-
>Ch1fSQWKEAkYBCABEgI51vD_BwE). It seems that this product is not supported
>by BRLTTY. Could anybody please check if the product is supported braille
>display or not?

Answering this type of question isn't as easy as one would hope. We're all 
volunteers, and braille devices are expensive. This means that we simply don't 
have the resources to purchase new devices just to see if they work with 
brltty. We do try very hard, though, to add support for a new device that 
doesn't yet work.

What I can tell you is that brltty has fairly general support for HIMS devices, 
and also that the Smart Beetle is supported. If you do get the device you're 
interested in, and if it turns out that it doesn't yet work with brltty, we'll 
work with you to try to add support for it.

Perhaps you could ask your vendor/distributor to test it for you. Perhaps you 
could arrange a conditional purchase. If it doesn't work then, perhaps, you 
could suggest that they lend us one so that we can directly work on adding 
support for it.

I know a person who may be able to give a better answer so I'll also ask her 
for her opinion on your question.

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