[BRLTTY] Trying to install

[Chevelle]

     Maybe you can open a command prompt and run run-brltty.bat or 
debug-brltty.bat.  These should be in the Brltty directory.

When I try that it goes into a loopp saying it can't open the serial 
port, but my system may have a problem with the USB to serial converter 
driver, I'm not sure.

If you can do that you should get a 'brltty.log' file in the same 
directory.  Brltty should be able to work in the command prompt window 
without using NVDA.  If you can get that far at least you know BRLTTY is 
working.




On 12/19/2022 10:17 AM, Pawel Loba wrote:
> Hello,
> Just to let you know.
> I just downloaded and installed brltty-win-6.5-203-libusb-1.0 on my 
> Windows 10 system. Part of the installation was to select a Braille 
> display (Alva in my case) and a com port (com port 1 in my case).
>
> There was no error messages shown on the screen but my Alva 480 did 
> not come up at all.
>
> Next, I tried to use my Alva 480 with NVDA and Narrator and in both 
> cases I got no errors reported but my unit did not start up.
>
> On the same system, there is no issues running this unit in Slint 15 
> and Devuan in the VMware player virtual machine.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pawel
>
>
>
> On 12/18/2022 12:14 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> [quoted lines by Howard Traxler on 2022/12/16 at 18:09 -0600]
>>
>>> I have downloaded and installed BRLTTY. I've connected my Alva 380 
>>> via com1 to my windows 10 computer running NVDA.
>> You might have problems with brltty itself so, to avoid that, please 
>> upgrade the new beta code (which identifies as 6.5-203).
>>
>>> BRLTTY shows up in the Braille choices in NVDA, but I get an error 
>>> (could not load the BRLTTY display) when I choose it.
>> Someone else will need to help you with this one as I don't use 
>> Windows, so also not NVDA. Perhasp you could ask the NVDA people to 
>> let you know what this error means and possible ways to resolve it. 
>> For example, perhaps they're trying to start brltty in an older way 
>> which we no longer support.
>>
>> Also, maybe there's a way that you can capture an NVDA debug log 
>> which contains more details.
>>
>>> I'm wondering if there is a way to tell if it's actually running and 
>>> if it's ready for the next steps to make it work?
>> You could try the Windows command (without the quotes) "sc query 
>> brlapi". It's output should contain a line that starts with the word 
>> "state", which should be "running".
>>
>> Another Windows command you might try (the quotes are required) is: 
>> tasklist -fi "imagename eq brltty.exe"
>>
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