[BRLTTY] Question about Supported Braille Displays

[Kihoon Ahn]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your kind help. As you suggested, I will ask
vendor/distributor to test the product. Also, please let me know if you get
any answer from her.

Thanks!

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [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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