[BRLTTY] Cable required for connecting Braille device (in my case Brailliant BI 40) with Android device

Vivien Palcic vivienpalcic at westnet.com.au
Sat Oct 16 09:25:16 EDT 2021


Hi,


I need clarification about the Micro USB host adapter, as referred to in 
the BRLTTY On Android documentation, in particular for connecting a 
Braille device via USB. My Braille device, the Brailliant BI 40, uses a 
Micro USB port, but I'm a bit confused, as it is not that connector 
which renders the device a host? It is the USB-c end of the cable 
plugged into the Android device's USB-C port which renders that device 
the host? So is that end of the cable otherwise the same as any USB-C 
connector? Or is this a separate adapter that fits onto the USB-C end of 
the cable? And what happens if the Braille device also has a USB-C port, 
such as in the case of the new Brailliant BI 40 X or BI 20 X models? 
Wouldn't that situation require a different sort of cable again?


Regards

Vivien



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