[BRLTTY] Hi and help w/ Baum display needed

Alexander Epaneshnikov aarnaarn2 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 20:21:23 EDT 2021


09.06.2021 6:37, G. Jakub Kwaczyński пишет:
> Hi Mr Alexander,
>
> thanks for Your answer. Kindly please see my answers below.
>
> W dniu 09. 06. 21 o 2:08, Alexander Epaneshnikov pisze:
>> 08.06.2021 22:15, G. Jakub Kwaczyński пишет:
>>>
>>> W dniu 08. 06. 21 o 20:31, Dave Mielke pisze:
>>>> [quoted lines by G. Jakub Kwaczyński on 2021/06/08 at 20:19 +0200]
>>>>
>>>>> I tried usb:/dev/ttyUSB0 and usb:ttyUSB0 and same result.
>>>> No. I mean a direct USB cable - no RS-2332 anything. Just pure USB. 
>>>> And then specify usb: for the device (nothing after the colon).
>>>
>>> I've attached a photo how the connection looks like. I've got only 
>>> the RS-232 cable bundled. I have no clue, where I could get a direct 
>>> USB cable. If You know by chance, let me know please.
>>>
>>>
>> hello mr Jakub.
>> i think you have the same baum display as one of mine.
>> I would like to try to help you, and for that I need to learn a 
>> couple of things.
>> 1. Are you using the original COM cable that came with the display 
>> from the factory?
>> it looks like a flat wire with two female plugs on the ends.
> I'm not quite sure, whether it's the original cable, since I bought 
> everything in used condition. It has a female rectangular plug with 10 
> pins for the Vario and an RS-232 9 pin for the PC on the other end.
>>
>> it is very important to use the original wire as its pinout differs 
>> from the usual internal pinout of the rs232 connector. several of 
>> these wires were made for me.
> If You have the pin layout, I could check, if it's correct, and 
> eventually solder it myself correctly. If this would be the solution, 
> I'll be very happy!
>>
>> 2. have you checked the two connection pins? they are equivalent, but 
>> I managed to burn one on one of my displays.
>>
> You mean the connection ports? There are two and both have same 
> symptoms. No reaction.
>> you should also be careful with your com to usb converter.
>> for me, one of these broke after a week of use.
> I'll be happy to get it running through a regular RS-232 port on a 
> commodity PC. I've bought the USB connector, because the seller 
> claimed, that it would work with that.
>> for a start, look either in the kernel logs, or in / dev /, or better 
>> both whether the adapter is detected when connected.
>> and specify the path to its device in brltty.conf. most likely it 
>> will be / dev / ttys0-usb
>>
> Yes, the adapter is connected as / dev / ttyUSB0 and configured so. 
> Yet, same symptoms. No reaction.
>
> I'd be really happy about the pin layout of the original serial 
> connector.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
hello Jakub. sorry for the long silence.
I asked the person who made the wire for me, he said that there is a 
usual rs232 pinout.
so it turns out that I was wrong.

> Jakub
>
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Sincerely, Alexander.



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