[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[tony seth]

Well hello again Dave:
I got a rather interesting update, and a question.
First, the question, and then the update.
The question is:
does the BrailleMe work with streight usb as well as bluetooth?
Now for the update.
I've done a factory reset on my Brailleme now that I had time to back
off from things for a bit, and re-installed Brltty so as to have a
nice clean environment to start out from.
>From here, I've made sure that Brltty doesn't start when the computer
starts, and have uncommented the Inceptor driver in the drivers list,
and bluetooth in the devices list.
I'm sticking to the command line method as I get more feedback from that.
I've gotten the Brailleme to pair consistantly, and have trusted the
device, this time using an usb bluetooth dongle and actually got it to
connect once out of many times. It worked very well, but then I went
to close the connection and the device locked up so I had to hard
restart it.
I couldn't get it to connect after that, although I can get it to pair
consistantly.
I don't start Brltty until I know that the device is paired, and I
really can't remember what I managed to do to get it to connect,
because I was so surprised at the time that it did.
I'll keep trying, but any help would be welcome, especially now that
I've seen it work. Thanks much, and take care...
Cheereo!


On 1/4/20, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [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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