[BRLTTY] Installed latest BRLTTY on Android but Chorded commands for Global Actions not working (using Brailliant BI 40)

[Vivien Palcic]

Hi Dave, and thank you for your reply.


Yes, from my experimentation so far, other chorded commands such as 
Space+125 work. I tried the command Space+Dots138 for enabling the 
Braille keyboard, but I'm not getting any indication (alerts/messages 
etc) as to whether it is enabled, was already enabled etc, even after I 
went into the Preferences and changed Alert Dots and Alert Messages to 
Yes. Was that the command you were referring to for enabling the Braille 
keyboard (Space+Dots138), which is what is listed in the Key Bindings 
for the Brailliant BI 40 when I'm reading it on my Windows desktop? But 
what's more puzzling is, when I'm reading the Help screen via my phone 
with the Brailliant, I'm getting different commands - for example: 
enter/leave help display: ControlLeft+ShiftLeft+KP0+KP8. (Or maybe KP7 - 
I wasn't completely sure, as one of the dots in the corresponding cell 
seemed to be faint, so it's a bit flady.) What is this KP even referring to?


Regards

Vivien

On 8/06/2021 11:06 pm, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Vivien Palcic on 2021/06/08 at 22:09 +0800]
>
> Hi:
>
>> I had wondered about that, and I was trying the command with all keys pressed
>> at the same time, but also as a sequence.
> Do other chords work? For example, does Space+h (dots 125) take you to brltty's help screen? As I recall, the Brailliant BI has a menu setting to turn the keyboard on/off. It could be, therefore, that your keyboard is simply turned off.
>
> If you're sure that your keyboard is turned on then I'd suggest to practice those multi-key chords just in case getting all the keys pressed at the same time is a bit tricky for you to do.
>
>> Unfortunately, I also don't know how to get the device's log.
> The first thing you need to do is to install Android's SDK (software development kit) on your computer. That'll give you the adb (Android debug bridge) command. It has a logcat function for getting the log.
>