[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by tony seth on 2020/01/05 at 00:53 -0800]

>does the BrailleMe work with streight usb as well as bluetooth?

It didn't, but it should now. Are you able to build the latest development
code?

>I've done a factory reset on my Brailleme 

That shouldn't have been necessary. Also, doing too many things at the same
time makes it much more difficult to figure out what any problem(s) might be.

>and re-installed Brltty 

Again, that shouldn't have been necessary.

>so as to have a nice clean environment to start out from.

I understand the goal.

>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. 

Did you add the BrailleMe's Bluetooth device address to the braille-device 
line?

>I'm sticking to the command line method as I get more feedback from that. I've
>gotten the Brailleme to pair consistantly,

That's a good idea. Note that you can use the -n option to make brltty stay in
the foreground. When running it this way, use CTRL-C to stop it.

You can also use the -L (uppercase) option to specify a log file, and you can
use the -l (lowercase) option to tell brltty what to log. In this case, you
might use:

   -L/path/to/logfile
   -ldebug,inpkts,bluetooth

Then, if you'd like us to look through a log file you can attach it to a post
to this list.

>and have trusted the device, 

That isn't necessary. Trusting a device means that it, i.e. the device iotself,
is allowed to start the Bluetooth connection. In this case, of course, it's the
host (i.e. brltty) which is always starting the connection.

>this time using an usb bluetooth dongle 

If you have internal Bluetooth then you shouldn't need to be doing it that way.
Again, since too many things have changed at the same time, we don't know at
this point.

My guess is that you were actually successfully pairing before since, if I'm
realling correctly, the BrailleMe was saying "connection failed". I don't think
it'd have gotten that far if it weren't paired.

>and actually got it to connect once out of many times. 

That's good news.

>It worked very well,

Do you mean for braille output, for typing, or for navigation. Braille output
and typing should work well, but my personal opinion is that the key bindings
for navigation may well not be working very well (yet).

>but then I went to close the connection and the device locked up so I had to
>hard restart it. 

I suspect that that's a timeout issue. In other words, it might just be that
you need to give the BrailleMe a short amount of time to realize that the
Bluetooth connection is gone.

>I couldn't get it to connect after that, although I can get it to pair
>consistantly.

You shouldn't need to be continually repairing it. If it's paired successfully
once then it should stay paired until you unpair it. You can list the currently
paired devices with bluetoothctl's paired-devices command.

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