[BRLTTY] I can not run Tieman Braille Voyager with Brltty on Windows 10

[Peter Vágner]

Hello,
A few things I have noticed and some clarifications.
* I have no braille device connected at all and I am very unlikelly to 
get one. My intention was to help mr Martin Beran to get his braille 
voyager working and learn a bit about brltty in the process.
* If I start run-brltty.bat it also exits right after the launch.
* My install of windows is so called international one. It installed 
with en-gb locale and I have then added slovak language support through 
the regional settings control pannel applet. By examining brltty log I 
have noticed it's looking for en-gb locale. I have investigated that and 
I have found out there is a system wide setting in windows that 
configures default codepage for non unicode aware applications. i have 
reconfigured this setting from english great britain to slovakia slovak 
republic through the control pannel.
* It did not help with this though, the debug log you have asked for is 
attached.
* Is there something else to try?

Thanks and greetings

Peter



Dňa 9. 12. 2022 o 8:29 Peter Vágner napísal(a):
> Hello,
> Answers inline.
>
>
> Dňa 9. 12. 2022 o 3:17 Dave Mielke napísal(a):
>> [quoted lines by Peter Vágner on 2022/12/08 at 23:36 +0100]
>>
>> Thank you. This has been helpful. A few questions:
>>
>>> * Start the setup: windows asks for elevated privileges,
>> Is this a yes/no prompt? Do you get the elevated privileges or do you 
>> continue without them.
> This is a typical Windows UAC Yes/No prompt. If I grant it it 
> continues with elevated privileges.
>
>>> brltty configurator window appears, I
>>> choose Driver: auto and port: USB, then later opt to install libusb 
>>> driver.
>> Can you confirm for me which brltty.conf file (i.e. the full path to 
>> it) gets written by the configurator?
> It generates file at
> C:\Program Files (X86)\brltty\etc\brltty.conf
> This is with 64 bit edition of Windows.
> I gues it would be
> C:\Program Files\brltty\etc\brltty.conf
> with 32 bit edition of Windows.
>>> and am trying to run file run-brltty.bat.
>>> * I receive an error like this
>>> brltty.exe: cannot open file: //etc/brltty.conf: No such file or 
>>> directory
>>> * Okay, perhaps there's a way around it so I then run .\bin\brltty 
>>> --help and
>>> also inspect the bat file which I can modify by adding -f 
>>> "C:\Program Files
>>> (X86)\brltty\etc\brltty.conf" inside so the brltty can find the 
>>> config file.
>> I'm assuming, then, that it's this brltty.cobf, i.e. the one that's 
>> part of the install hierarchy, that the configurator is updating. I'd 
>> appreciate it if you could confirm this.
> Yes I have checked date modified of this file and it corresponds with 
> the time I was running the setup
>
>>> * However while trying to start the service I am always receiving 
>>> error like
>>> this no matter how much I am trying.
>>> Error 1067: 'The process terminated unexpectedly'
>>> * Then I have opened services applet, navigated to BrlApi service 
>>> and added
>>> the following to the arguments entry fields in the service 
>>> properties window:
>>> -f "C:\Program Files (X86)\brltty\etc\brltty.conf" -L "C:\Program Files
>>> (X86)\brltty\svc.log"
>>> So it can find its config file and also it can output what's going 
>>> on into
>>> the log.
>>> The log is brief but hopefully gives enough pointers on what needs 
>>> changing.
>> The log I see is:
>>
>>     iconv open error: UTF-8 -> CP0: Invalid argument
>>
>> This log is a warning, and not fatal. Could you please add -ldebug so 
>> that we can hopefully see where brltty is atually failing?
> Okay, thanks for the hint, I will post back with a new log shortly.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
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