[BRLTTY] Is the BrailleSense 6 (from HIMS) among the supported devices with BRLTTY on Android?

[Paul Scott]

Hi Dave,

The braille sense p does not work over usb on BRLTTY or TalkBack version of
BRLTTY. Note, it also doesn't work under Linux Debian.

Hopes this helps.


On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 2:46 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Vivien Palcic on 2023/02/10 at 20:27 +0800]
>
> >I was trying to find a list of supported devices in the documentation for
> >BRLTTY on Android, but to no avail.
>
> There's no specific list for Android. If brltty supports a device then it
> supports it for Android. The only issue, here, is that an Android device
> doesn't have serial ports so you can assume that you can only use a braille
> device on Android if it can be accessed via USB or Bluetooth.
>
> >I don't have the device yet, so cannot even test it/try adding the device
> etc.
>
> We haven't yet made a clear statement about the BrailleSense 6 because we
> don't know for sure, yet, if it works via USB. We need a user with one to
> either verify that that does work or, if it doesn't, to help us get it to
> work. We do know, however, that using a BrailleSense 6 via Bluetooth does
> work.
>
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