[BRLTTY] cleaning a braille display

2015-03-01 Thread Rob
Some people say to use rubbing alcohol to clean a display. I saw this in a packmate manual even. Another source said that using rubbing alcohol leaves a residue behind on the cells and would gum them up eventually. What's the real answer?___ This messa

[BRLTTY] getting a command shell on android

2015-04-08 Thread Rob
Hi there, I have here an Android phone. Because I find the TTS it comes with a little hard to understand, I need to get Brltty installed asap. The phone doesn't appear to come with any sort of file manager and I can't navigate the onscreen keyboard to sign into google to purchase one. How can I

Re: [BRLTTY] getting a command shell on android

2015-04-10 Thread Rob
Sense? - Original Message - From: "Dave Mielke" To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] getting a command shell on android [quoted lines by Rob on 2015/04/08 at 08:13 -0500] Th

[BRLTTY] Setting up a Braille Scroller in Windows

2015-05-15 Thread Rob
To my knowledge, no screen reader allows you to simply scroll the display at a preset speed; it is tied to the screen readers say all command. What I was wondering: is it possible to connect autohotkey to BrlApi and have scripts tied to braille display keys? Right now it's just an idea and I hav

[BRLTTY] Starting Brltty Automatically on a custom system

2015-06-02 Thread Rob
This weekend I built a Linux from Scratch (LFS) system. I installed Brltty into it and tried to copy the debian init script. That didn't work, however. Install_initd complained: "no script provides mountkernfs" What is that, anyway? Next I tried running it through inittab, as per the Brltty manua

[BRLTTY] Android: Display does not reactivate after phone unlock

2015-06-10 Thread Rob
I am running a Galaxy S6 with a Braille sense Mini, Android Lollipop. The communication method is bluetooth. Brltty 5.2, I don't know the build number. But I downloaded it a couple of months ago. When the screen turns itself off, and you hit the power button to reactivate, the display does not w

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Display does not reactivate after phone unlock

2015-06-11 Thread Rob
and developers of BRLTTY." Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Display does not reactivate after phone unlock [quoted lines by Rob on 2015/06/10 at 12:22 -0500] I am running a Galaxy S6 with a Braille sense Mini, Android Lollipop. The communication

Re: [BRLTTY] Making the contraction table permanent

2015-07-17 Thread Rob
Make sure "Save on exit" is checked in the preferences menu, under menu options. - Original Message - From: "John J. Boyer" To: Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 8:29 AM Subject: [BRLTTY] Making the contraction table permanent Whenever I reboot I have to reset the contraction table. I use

[BRLTTY] Braille Display Comparison

2015-07-26 Thread Rob
I am in the market for a new desktop braille display. The desktop display I have currently is getting very old and it cannot be serviced anymore, should it break. In addition, it is getting difficult to find boards that I can afford with serial ports. The ones I do find are older, refurbished m

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille Display Comparison

2015-07-26 Thread Rob
Jason White wrote: The Focus 40 Blue I have access to one of these via my current employer. It works well with every operating system that I've tried, which amounts to almost all of them at this point. BRLTTY 5.2 supports it well. This is actually top of my list, because it looks pretty snaz

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille Display Comparison

2015-07-27 Thread Rob
Rasmussen, Lloyd wrote: If you want modern features such as Bluetooth, it may be time to buy a new display. But you shouldn't discount USB-to-serial converters. They can work well, especially if they have an authentic FTDI chipset. It's more than wanting modern features; although that does play

[BRLTTY] Typing Capital Letters

2015-08-24 Thread Rob
Using the BRLTTY android app, how do you type capital letters on your braille keyboard when using it as an input source on your Android device? I am using a Braille Sense. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an

[BRLTTY] Queries on Navigation in Android

2015-08-24 Thread Rob
My braille device is a Braille Sense. The Brltty documentation for Android says: The "accessibility focus" feature of Android is used for cursor tracking and routing. It's a soft cursor, not visible on the screen, that can be programmatically associated with any screen element. All screen readers

Re: [BRLTTY] Queries on Navigation in Android

2015-08-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Today I was in the Message Plus app, sending a text message. I was trying to bring focus to the edit input area where you could type a message. I hit space dot 4 to move down the line, and I saw: Type a Message, but the block style cursor did not appear until I picked up th

Re: [BRLTTY] Queries on Navigation in Android

2015-08-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: That worked. But the block style cursor did not show up indicating a text area. That's what was throwing me off. Sometimes, on Android, you need to long click a text area to open it. Maybe you could try to see if that text area is one of those. Well, that worked. I didn't

Re: [BRLTTY] Queries on Navigation in Android

2015-08-25 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: I haven't ever tried Message Plus, so I'm doing a bit of guessing, here. I'm guessing that the button is still disabled, which it probably starts out as being when there's nothing in the input area. Is a sighted person available to watch the screen in order to confirm this?

Re: [BRLTTY] Queries on Navigation in Android

2015-08-31 Thread Rob
Okay, I have had a whole weekend out of town to use my phone, so I waited to respond until I was back, with a little more information. Dave Mielke wrote: I use the phone with both braille and Talkback, and the button was not "dimmed." That's odd. This is something I clearly need to have a mu

[BRLTTY] Android: Permissions Dialog Comes up at Startup

2015-09-06 Thread Rob
I'm still working on my navigation problems, in between getting my housemoving over with. In the meantime, here's something else. Whenever I start up my Galaxy, a little dialog that says something about Brltty wanting to access a USB device comes up. There is a checkbox that says use as default

[BRLTTY] Android: Talkback Squeaks when using Brltty Input

2015-09-15 Thread Rob
When I use my Braille Sense as an input source, I notice that Talkback echoes the characters in a really high voice. Is this normal, or how can you change this? ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to:

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Talkback Squeaks when using Brltty Input

2015-09-15 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: < Is it possible that both TalkBack and brltty are speaking? What's brltty's > Speech Support set to? Speech support is set to native. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Talkback Squeaks when using Brltty Input

2015-09-15 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Rob on 2015/09/15 at 08:21 -0500] I believe that TalkBack does speak typed characters at a slightly higher pitch. I'm not sure if that can be customized. That slightly higher pitch isn't what I'd describe as squeaking, though. It's

[BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-18 Thread Rob
I connected a Braille Sense to my Linux box, running a custom built LFS distro. I first put the unit into terminal mode, using USB. Brltty did not see it. Here's what dmesg says: [1827726.693048] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 15 using ehci-pci [1827728.885088] usb 3-2: new full-speed U

Re: [BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-18 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Which model of Braille Sense, and which release of brltty? Braille Sense Mini, Brltty 5.2 rev unknown. There was a problem of this nature that's been fixed in the development stream. Are you able to test with the latest code? I'll try that tomorrow. By the way, in order to

Re: [BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-20 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Could you please send a copy of your /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices file while your Braille Sense is connected? No such file; ../debug is empty. Now, I cloned the latest code from git. Use -L (uppercase) to specify the path to the log file you'd like to create, and use -

Re: [BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-20 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke > > Could you please send a copy of your /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices file while > your braille Sense is connected? there is no such file; I put that in the message. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message,

Re: [BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-21 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Some distributions don't mount the kernel's debug file system. Try: mount -t debugfs debugfs /yss/kernel/debug I think you wanted /sys/kernel/debug, there. Fixed that, and we have it mounted. Indeed. Could you do lsusb both before and after running brltty in order to verif

Re: [BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-21 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote:> I hope you don't mind me asking what I'm hoping is a stupid question, but is it > possible that, maybe, the device is set to use Bluetooth rather than USB? I thought of that and double checked. We're using the USB port. It runs fine on windows, so it isn't the cable. I tried

Re: [BRLTTY] Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-22 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Did you check with lsusb as well? If lsusb isn't showing it then brltty won't see it. If, on the other hand, lsusb does show it but brltty isn't seeing it then there'd likely be a problem with brltty. Okay. I reset the Braille Sense, and now something shows up with lsusb. T

[BRLTTY] Solved: Re: Hims Braille Sense not Working on Linux

2015-11-22 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > That looks like it. I ran brltty -b auto and it now works. At first it didn't, and I was going to hunt down log files, but then I had a forehead smacker moment and realized I forgot to put sudo in front of the command. That was a rather odd situation. Thanks, all, for your h

[BRLTTY] Handy Tech Displays

2015-11-22 Thread Rob
I cannot find a price breakdown for the Handy Tech Basic Braille models. Does anyone here know how much the 40, 64 and 80 cell units cost? I need to upgrade my desktop display soon. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a mes

[BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
The entry in the manual for this feature is rather sketchy, so I have some questions. 1. Where exactly do you set up the alerts to sound? 2. I have two sound cards. Where do I set the PCM device to use? I want to have the tunes come out of card 1. Now, onto the Braille Sense bindings. You cycle t

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: 1. Where exactly do you set up the alerts to sound? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. Where are the tunable events listed at? Like arrowing beyond the last line, things like that. You cycle through the menu options with the backward and forward scroll buttons. B

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Some items have lots of choices. If you accidentally go one too far then it > can > be a long way around. It's handy, therefore, to also have a way to go > backward. For that, you use the backspace key. It has no other function in the menu system. __

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Just to confirm, you mean the Dot7 key? > > If so, do you still want Space for going forward, or maybe using Dot8 to go > forward would be more symmetric. Yes, using dot 8 would be better, now that you mention it. That key also has no function in the menu system, as I recall.

[BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-09 Thread Rob
What is the history of Brltty? I have to admit, it is an indispensable tool in my arsenal, but how did it all get started to end up as the wonderful program it is today? As a side note, how many of us use Brltty as our sole means of navigating in Linux? I hope this message isn't too off topic, b

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Rob
Mario Lang wrote: I'd like to take this opportunity and publicly thank Dave for the absolutely wonderful work he has been doing since he took maintainance over. I second that. I came to Linux in--I think--about 2010, at which time I had no braille display and I was stuck using the E Squeak synt

[BRLTTY] Rehash of an old Topic: USB Switches

2015-12-15 Thread Rob
I will soon be receiving a Handy Tech Basic Braille 40. I wish to use it on both my windows and Linux box. Now I know we have covered this before but I cannot recall what the verdict was. Similar to a serial switch, I want a device that will switch USB devices from one box to another. What devic

Re: [BRLTTY] Possible OT: BRLTTY and Orca

2015-12-20 Thread Rob
Vincent LE GOFF wrote: Absolutely. When I move the system cursor using tab or the arrow keys, say, in a file, the Braille display is refreshed. But I can't move around using the keys of the Braille device. Perhaps it's a feature that hasn't been added to Orca, which I haven't tested in a

Re: [BRLTTY] System startup.

2016-01-25 Thread Rob
Jason White wrote: If your system is running systemd (if you have the systemctl command available, then it is), you need to install a systemd unit file for BRLTTY and enable it. Check whether it's installed with systemctl status brltty I've been giving some thought to installing systemd on

[BRLTTY] Determining Screen Location/Coordinates

2016-01-27 Thread Rob
In speakup, you can press a key to hear which line/column you are located at. I wasn't able to find a similar command for BRLTTY. Does such a command exist? ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLT

Re: [BRLTTY] Determining Screen Location/Coordinates

2016-01-27 Thread Rob
Dave mielke wrote: > There's no way to speak the location of the braille window or to show in > braille the location of the speech cursor. Is there a reason for this? It would seem that would be a somewhat important piece of information to have. ___ Th

Re: [BRLTTY] Determining Screen Location/Coordinates

2016-01-27 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Perhaps you misunderstood me. There's a braille way to know where the braille window is, and there's a speech way to know where the speech cursor is. So, in fact, the information is absoutely available. It's just that there's no speech way to know where the braille window is

Re: [BRLTTY] Determining Screen Location/Coordinates

2016-01-27 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: There's also the INFO command that siwtches to a one line display of status information. Which type of display do you have? I've got a Braille Sense U-2 Mini. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a m

Re: [BRLTTY] Startup of brltty.

2016-02-03 Thread Rob
Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! I have just downloaded the latest brltty source and compiled it. However it does not start automatically even if it is configured with-init-pat=/sbin/real_init. Is there any way of making things work correctly. Did you try the udev rules? That works great for me.

Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty freezing on Debian jessie.

2016-02-03 Thread Rob
John J. Boyer wrote: Once in a while my computer becomes totally unresonsive and I have to pull the plug to get things going. Is it unresponsive just in one terminal? Can you switch terminals and then try and restart brltty? ___ This message was sen

Re: [BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

2016-05-07 Thread Rob
kendell clark wrote: > Of course then there's no > speech, but this'll get fixed so I'm not worried about it. Why would you want speech in Brltty anyway, when you have speakup? Brltty's primary purpose is for driving braille devices. Just wondering. ___

Re: [BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

2016-05-07 Thread Rob
kendell clark wrote: > Speakup has never played very nice with pulse audio. The issue seems to > be that after you log in, all speech in the console stops. Running pulse in system mode was supposed to have fixed that. Is this no longer the case? ___ Th

Re: [BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

2016-05-07 Thread Rob
kendell clark wrote: I've never been able to get this to work. Is there a guide I can follow to try this? It has been a very long time since I played with pulse. There might be something on the arch wiki though. ___ This message was sent via the B

Re: [BRLTTY] new listmember with a question

2016-05-19 Thread Rob
kendell clark wrote: Instead of helping me fix it, the pulse audio people act like children, insisting it's not their bug. Can't you still run desktops like XFCE and Mate without Pulse Audio? Or Isn't there a way to have pulse called ona per application basis? ___

[BRLTTY] Activating Vibration Motor

2016-06-04 Thread Rob
Some note takers have a vibration motor in them nowadays. Is it possible for BRLTTY to activate that motor? This would be particularly useful, for example, in the android app. Yes, phones can vibrate, too. However, another option never hurts, does it?

Re: [BRLTTY] jumpy bumps

2016-06-05 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > What's probably happening is that the conversation lines are scrolling on the > screen. If you have your irc window in a Screen session you can press C-A left bracket and enter copy mode. This loads the contents of the screen into a buffer for easier perusal. BRLTTY has a

Re: [BRLTTY] jumpy bumps

2016-06-05 Thread Rob
Brian Tew wrote: > Maybe if I pipe the irc thru tail -1 it may help. What irc client are you using? I think the only real, no-frills solution is to read faster lol. I'm lucky that with an induction loop and a braille display I can still follow irc pretty well. __

Re: [BRLTTY] jumpy bumps

2016-06-06 Thread Rob
Brian Tew wrote: Rob, what is an induction loop? It's basically a loop of wire that sends audio signals via the t-coils in hearing aids. See this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_induction_loop ___ This message was sent via the B

[BRLTTY] Android: Brltty Won't Read Home Screen

2016-07-10 Thread Rob
I downloaded brltty-latest.apk yesterday and still notice the problem that the home screen items are still not read on my Lollipop. All I see is Quick Notifications as I move through the items using the touch screen. Is this a Lollipop problem or a Brltty problem.

[BRLTTY] An App causes BRLTTY to Crash

2016-07-22 Thread Rob
Yesterday, I got an iGrill bluetooth thermometer and installed its app, iDevices Connected. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idevicesllc.connected When you launch the app,, you have a little dashboard with all your connected iGrill devices. You double tap on the device to enter i

[BRLTTY] The BRLTTY Android App

2016-07-29 Thread Rob
Are there any plans to register this app on the play store so you can just install it using that mechanism? Would be a lot easier than installing ADB, which has some hoops you have to jump through in order to make it work. ___ This message was sent via

[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android Tablet

2016-08-03 Thread Rob
Well this is interesting. Today I picked up an RCA Voyager Pro tablet. Just something to play around with. I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 phone as well. My portable display is a Braille Sense U-2 Mini. When on the home screen in the Galaxy, BRLTTY only says "Quick notifications" or "Recent Apps Back

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android Tablet

2016-08-06 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > What happens on the Samsung when you're on a screen that isn't the launcher? All the apps seem to read well except the home screen. I don't spend enough time on the home screen for it to be much of a problem. However, if braille were my only means of interacting with the ph

[BRLTTY] Another App Causes BRLTTY to Crash

2016-08-07 Thread Rob
I tried sending this earlier but not sure it got through. This app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.vx.connectbot causes BRLTTY to enter into a crashing loop where it tries over and over again to restart itself. Since I can't use ADB to capture a log (no usb drivers for this tablet

[BRLTTY] Another App Causing BRLTTY to Crash

2016-08-07 Thread Rob
This app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.vx.connectbot causes BRLTTY to crash. It goes into a continuous cycle of trying to restart itself over and over again when I try and enter the app. Since I appear unable to use ADB to capture a log, how can I get it off the device so we ca

Re: [BRLTTY] Another App Causing BRLTTY to Crash

2016-08-07 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Have you enabled USB debugging? It's disabled by default. It is enabled. The problem is that there are no USB drivers for this tablet. Therefore, ADB cannot see it; and the standard google driver will not install. Windows just claims the best driver for the device is alread

Re: [BRLTTY] Another App Causing BRLTTY to Crash

2016-08-07 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Does the same problem occur on your Samsung? If yes, can you use adb with it? Got the app to work on my Samsung. However, it appears it is almost completely inacessible once you actually connect to a host. It looks like I need to find a better ssh client. __

[BRLTTY] Selecting Menu Options with BasicBraille

2016-08-16 Thread Rob
First there's no mention of this in the hotkeys table. It tells you how to get in and out of the preferences menu, but not how to select different menu items. Unless I missed it. It was by accident that I found hitting different routing keys changed the selection. This should be altered. Perhaps

[BRLTTY] Cursor Routing at linux Login Screen

2016-08-27 Thread Rob
I noticed today that cursor routing doesn't work here. When you push a routing button, the display fills with a bunch of garbage. Just out of curiosity, what is missing that cursor routing doesn't work at the login prompt? ___ This message was sent via

[BRLTTY] Build Options for BRLTTY

2016-09-11 Thread Rob
My current project is to build a little hint document for LFS (Linux from Scratch) about enabling accessibility services in the base system. I'm currently at discussing BRLTTY. When talking about build options, since we do not currently have most of the support structure in the base system, I'm

Re: [BRLTTY] Build Options for BRLTTY

2016-09-11 Thread Rob
Samuel Thibault wrote: > That being said, you'll probably want the python bindings, so that Orca > can be used to access the graphical desktop. I will not be covering that, because Python is not installed in the base LFS system. I believe Orca already has pretty thorough documentation on instal

[BRLTTY] BRLTTY Udev Rules and Systemd

2016-09-12 Thread Rob
I copied the included "udev.rules" from the BRLTTY source package to "/etc/udev/rules.d/brltty" and left it at that. This is a systemd based Linux build. I use this method on my other system to have BRLTTY start automatically and it works great. However, when I boot the new system, I see "BRLTY 5.

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY Udev Rules and Systemd

2016-09-13 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > What I'd like to know first is if your udev > rules file tries to invoke brltty directly or if it uses systemd. It is the udev.rules file included in the brltty-5.4.tar.gz source tree. I did not modify it except to place it in a new location. ___

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY Udev Rules and Systemd

2016-09-13 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > The check it makes is to look for /sys/fs/group/systemd. Does your system > have > this directory? It does not. I don't have to start BRLTTY via udev rules though. I can just enable the systemd service> that came in the source tree as well. Unless we can fix the udev rules

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY Udev Rules and Systemd

2016-09-13 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > The otehr is a script named brltty-wrapper that you > need to put in /usr/lib/udev/ and make sure it's executable. I don't have "/usr/lib/udev" , but I do have "/lib/udev" . Will that work? ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY Udev Rules and Systemd

2016-09-13 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Yes, it should work. Maybe, or maybe not. I got a message on my console about USB class 0 or host 0 or something like that already being claimed by USBHID whatever it was. I had to manually start BRLTTY; the rules didn't seem to have kicked in. I put the rules file you sent

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY Udev Rules and Systemd

2016-09-13 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > I don't know what order it ends up in if you don't prefix the file name with > a > number. I use: 90-brltty.rules Oh, I'll try that and see what happens. I rebooted last time and yes, the wrapper was executable. Will report back here with the next boot.

[BRLTTY] Udev Rules Update

2016-09-14 Thread Rob
I rebooted the system today and BRLTTY still did not come up via the rules. Could it be looking in the wrong path? I have BRLTTY installed in "--prefix=/usr" so maybe it's not looking there? The "brltty-wrapper" script is executable -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1188 Sep 14 01:39 brltty-wrapper _

Re: [BRLTTY] Udev Rules Update

2016-09-14 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > To make sure that you have the right rules file, verify these two lines in it: > >453: RUN+="brltty-wrapper" >457: RUN+="brltty-wrapper -C" Yes, I do have those lines. > Is your rules file now named 90-brltty.rules? it sure is. It lives in: "/lib/udev/rules.d/90-b

Re: [BRLTTY] Udev Rules Update

2016-09-15 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Then, without rebooting, connect your braille device. The log should show us > what the script is doing. It didn't do anything. No /tmp log file was created. In case /tmp was not writeable I changed the path to /root. NO log. Here's what the script now looks like in case so

[BRLTTY] brltty-systemd-wrapper

2016-09-15 Thread Rob
Where does this script go? the service file obviously goes in "/etc/systemd/system" but what about the script? Why do we even have a wrapper script anyway? Just curious ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-m

[BRLTTY] Missing Systemd Unit File

2016-09-15 Thread Rob
I figured out that "make install-systemd" would put everything where it was supposed to be. However, running "systemctl start brltty" gave the message "Failed to start brltty.service: Unit brl...@-etc-brltty.conf.service not found." How do I fix that? __

Re: [BRLTTY] Missing Systemd Unit File

2016-09-15 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Unless I figure out a nicer way to do it, a target unit (rather than a > service > unit) is used now. This change was made in order to support multiple brltty > processes that have their own configuration files. Okay, I'll grav the latest development code and give that a w

[BRLTTY] More Stuff with Udev and Systemd

2016-09-17 Thread Rob
I transferred the system had built to another computer. This time the 90-brltty.rules and brltty-wrapper worked. But I saw some weird messages from the kernel. Every other second or so, it said something like { long_dmesg_number usb_fs interface claimed by USBHID while 'brltty' sets config 1 }

Re: [BRLTTY] More Stuff with Udev and Systemd

2016-09-17 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Did you put brltty-wrapper in /lib/udev or in /usr/lib/udev on this second > system? It went in /lib/udev It was an imaged disk that I unzipped into another partition. > Please, if you can, get the actual message. I don't like trying to come up > with > an informed answer

Re: [BRLTTY] More Stuff with Udev and Systemd

2016-09-18 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > It should be in your system log (probably something like /var/log/messages). Ok, here's what the message says. If you know a way to suppress these messages please do share. I tried setting ForwardToConsole=no in /etc/systemd/journald.conf but no go. As you can see from the ca

Re: [BRLTTY] More Stuff with Udev and Systemd

2016-09-18 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > This usually means that there's more than one brltty process running at the > same time that's trying to access the same device. This may actually be true. > You probably have one being started by udev/systemd, and another that's the > default brltty process and that defaul

[BRLTTY] Testing a Xorg Install

2016-09-23 Thread Rob
If your braille device says screen not in text mode can you safely assume that your X Window system environment is working? ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general informati

[BRLTTY] Orca Fails to Find BRLTTY and Liblouis

2016-10-04 Thread Rob
Today I pulled Orca: https://github.com/GNOME/orca.git and ran: PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 ./autogen.sh ./configure -q --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var At the end, configure whined: NOTE: Braille support requires BrlTTY >= 3.9 and BrlAPI >= 0.5.1. Use speech-dispatcher: yes U

[BRLTTY] Orca not Finding BRLTTY, Answer

2016-10-04 Thread Rob
I think I figured out why Orca didn't find BRLTTY. I did not pass PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 to the BRLTTY configure script, so the brlapi python bindings were built with Python 2.7. Probably the same thing happened with Liblouis. Having said that, is there a way to build just the brlapi python bind

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Samsung Galaxy S7

2016-12-28 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > My current device is 4.3 (yes, a bit old), so reproducing may not be possible. Have you ever thought of installing an Android emulator and working with that, if you cannot get a hold of an actual new device? ___ This message was s

[BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-21 Thread Rob Meredith
Hello: I seem to be unable to read the keys for dos 7-8 from a Braille Connect 24 using BrlAPI. Is this currently possible? Rob ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
Sorry, I mean reading these keys from the client. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sébastien Hinderer Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:17 PM To: brltty@mielke.cc Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI Hi, > I seem

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
Samuel, Using the following two lines of code, I do not get a response for dots 7 or 8: while(brlapi_readKey(0,&code)) fprintf(stderr,"got it! (code=%"BRLAPI_PRIxKEYCODE")\n",code); Of course, I do get codes for the other dot keys. Ro

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
For dot 1, I get 0x20220001. For dot 6, I get 0x20220020. In this case, I am using a Braille Connect 24, and am expecting a command of BRLAPI_KEY_CMD_PASSDOTS, which I do in fact get. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
I am starting BRLTTY with the Baum (bm) driver. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:56 AM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
sent for the specific dot 7 and 8 keys on the Connect 24, but I need pretty specific instructions! Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:12 AM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
remember, the Connect 12 has a key between dots 1 and 4 at the top of the face which I believe you are using for space. There is no such key (called B11) on the Connect 24. So, if we support dots 7-8 on the Connect 24, how can we distinguish between these dots and a space? Rob -Original

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
a similar line, I am not getting any codes for F1 through F4, and these keys exist on the Connect 12 and the Connect 24. I wonder if strategic use of these keys could help. Or, perhaps other Baum displays don't provide these keys and that is why they are not supported in BRLTTY? Rob -

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
f B0. In the case of the Connect 24, you could press them with other keys, but since the thumb would likely be used to press the function key in this case, it is a bit of a stretch. It isn't a stretch on the Connect 12. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
bably use these for shift and control anyway. How are dots 7-8 normally used when typed if not for shift and control? (I realize the technical difference.) Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Meredith
Dave: I didn't get the patch in your last message. Could you resend? Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:30 PM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subjec

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-25 Thread Rob Meredith
o solve it? Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:30 PM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI [quoted lines by Rob Meredi

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

2008-08-26 Thread Rob Meredith
ld prove useful. What are your thoughts on this? Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:14 PM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From

[BRLTTY] SEIKA THDZ 40

2008-09-08 Thread Rob Meredith
:/dev/ttyUSB0 Rob ___ 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

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