[BRLTTY] New Handy Tech display not recognised

Sebastian Humenda shumenda at gmx.de
Fri Dec 20 17:37:59 EST 2019


Hi

Dave Mielke schrieb am 12.12.2019, 10:36 -0500:
>[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2019/12/12 at 09:18 +0100]
>>I have got a new braille device that BRLTTY does not recognise, apparently
>>because the manufacturer did not care to request a unique USB ID. The device
>>identifies itself as "Handy Tech BRAILLE Star 80 Ver. F4.31" and `lsusb` show:
>>
>>    Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 Serial (UART) IC
>
>That isn't the problem because HandyTech does indeed use that generic chip.

Sorry for not coming back earlier. The new braille display has a serial port
as a "feature" (the previous one was USB only). A switch at the back of that
model switches between serial and USB connection and apparently it was
switched to serial. Sorry for the incorrect report :-).

Regards
Sebastian
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