[BRLTTY] Start & stop BRLTTY with Tasker on Android

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2019/07/20 at 22:47 +0200]

>I frequently need to start and stop the BRLTTY service on my Android
>device. I thought I could use Tasker, an Android automation tool, for
>that. My approach is to make a widget on the start screen that toggles
>BRLTTY on/off. However, it seems that I cannot find the BRLTTY service
>from within Tasker, and so I'm not able to instruct Tasker to interact
>with it.

I'm sure that's near (maybe totally) impossible. Perhaps what we ought to do is
have brltty accept an intent that can be used to release/resume the braille
device. It would, of course, need a permission that your manifest would have to
request.

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