[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by tony seth on 2020/01/03 at 19:00 -0800]

>First off, the version of Brltty I have, is 6.0.

Good. That's the latest production release. The Braille Me is definitely
supported by it.

>First turned bluetooth on for the pc, using bluetoothctl. Also tried
>this with the blue-man gui with same results.
>The agent registered, so I set default-agent and that went all right,
>set power on, that succeedded and then scan on and scan started.

Sounds good so far.

>From here, I turned on bluetooth on the BrailleMe device and figuring
>Brailleback was as close to linux as possible, 

Yes, brailleback is the correet choice for Linux.

>and the devices shows up as Smartbeetle1 in the available devices so I paired
>with it by the 6-char address.

Yes, with bluetoothctl's "pair xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" command where the address is
taken from the smartbeetle line of the scan. 

>The agent wanted me to verify a 6-digit passkey so tried answering
>both y and yes and the Brailleme consistantly and very quickly
>displayed the message:
>Connection failed.

To confirm: You typed the y or yes on Linux in response to the bluetoothctl
prompt, right?

Whenever you do this, make sure you restart the Braille Me's Bluetooth waiting
prompt (by selecting brailleback), and then don't take too long.

After typing yes, you should see "pairing successful" on Linux, and the Braille
Me will still say waiting.

Note that this part has nothing to do with brltty. In fact, you shouldn't be
trying to start brltty with the Braille Me until pairing with Linux has
succeeded as you don't want brltty's attempts to connect to the device to
interfere with your attempts to pair it.

>In Brailleback the passkey confirmation works fine so I know the
>device is working.

It does work on Linux, too.

>I tried this again after going into brltty.conf and checking  that
>auto is uncommendted in the driver list and braille-devices.
>I uncommented the Inceptor driver in the drivers and bluetooth in the
>devices list and put the address of the BrailleMe into the line
>provided and tried the above process again, still no go.

Even though, as noted above, none of this has anything to do with successfully
pairing, I'll still note that you shouldn't have more than one braille-driver
and more than one braille-device line uncommented else you won't be sure
regarding which of the various apparent alternatives brltty will be using. In
particular, don't uncomment auto and the correct driver at the same time.

More specifically, the Braille Me's Bluetooth name is a HIMS model (smart
beetle) so it'll look like a HIMS device to brltty. To deal with this, you
should expicitly specify the ic braille driver.

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