Hello, the USB-HID adapter is a piece of hardware that makes the older FTDI USB to serial-based devices, such as Braille Star 80, available as HID devices so they can be used without the administrative privileges which would usually be required for installing the FTDI driver. So, for example, the adapter turns an FTDI-based Braille Star 40 into an HID-based one. Is anyone on here using an Active Braille, Basic Braille or Active Star with the current BRLTTY? If so, what firmware is running on the device? I'll test again on another machine just to make sure it's not just this system having a problem. I'll also test with a Basic Braille. I'm quite sure you are doing everything right, as we never changed anything substantial about the USB layer in the Active Braille firmware. So there is no older and newer communication protocol with Active Braille, it's just as it always was. Kind regards, Felix Grützmacher
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards Felix Grützmacher Softwareentwickler Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH Brunnenstraße 10 72160 Horb Germany Tel: +49 (0)7451 5546-37 Fax: +49 (0)7451 5546-67 E-Mail: felix.gruetzmac...@handytech.de Internet: www.handytech.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Horb-Nordstetten - Handelsregister Stuttgart HRB 440471 - Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Kipke - USt-IdNr.: DE 213 128 795 headquarter: Horb-Nordstetten · company registration office: Stuttgart HRB 440471 · owner / manager: Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Kipke · USt-IdNr.: DE 213 128 795 Werden Sie Teil unserer Handy Tech Internetgemeinde und bleiben Sie immer informiert! Join the Handy Tech web-community and stay up to date! Facebook: Deutsch, English, Youtube, Twitter, RSS-Feed: Deutsch, English -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: brltty-boun...@mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-boun...@mielke.cc] Im Auftrag von Dave Mielke Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Juli 2016 15:24 An: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Betreff: Re: [BRLTTY] Introducing myself, and a question regarding BRLTTY for Windows [quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH on 2016/07/12 at 14:55 +0200] >as long as Active Braille has been around, we never purposefully >changed anything significant in how to communicate with it. I'm sure that's true. >But just so we can double-check, could you please provide me with one >obvious difference between 2 and 3 so I can check which one we use? 2 strictly uses USB control operations for both input and output wehreas 3 does input via endpoint 81 and output via endpoint 01. We currently use 2, as mentioned earlier, for the HID versions of the Easy Braille and the Braille Star 40. We also use it for something (I'm not sure what, exactly it is) that we call a USB-HID adapter. We use 3 for the Active Braille, the Basic Braille, the Active Star, and the Connect Braille. Is it possible that the difference really should be based on firmware version rather than one device type? In other words, is it possible that older HID-based firmware does it one way and that newer HID-based firmware does it the other way? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: d...@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
