[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[tony seth]

Hello again and thanks much for the quick and detailed response.
I think for now I'll stick with the stable release and I'll keep
trying with bluetooth.
I did add the bluetooth address to the bluetooth device line.
I think I can stop changing things up since I got the device to
connect with the dongle. If I can get it to consistantly connect that
way I agree, the internal one should work too.
The typing was the first thing I noticed, and it worked quite well.
Navigating was confusing, and I couldn't get the help file to load
which I think would have helped me know what keys to hit for what
functions.
Anyway, I'll get back to you with further info when I fight with it some more.
Thanks again for your patience with a total newbie.
Have a great day...
Cheereo!


On 1/5/20, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [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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