[BRLTTY] Alva BC640 braille keyboard no worky

Kirk Reiser kirk at reisers.ca
Tue Oct 17 11:17:07 EDT 2023


Hi Dave: That log output was exactly what brltty provided when using
both the inpkts and brlkeys flags to -l. I didn't modify it in any
way.

I don't know about hci or what the manual says because the manual
which came with the unit on it's build-in ramstick got blown away by
mistake quite a few years back so I don't actually have a manual for
the device.

I did have a weird experience which leads me to believe that it may
not be a hardware problem. I have been working on a contraction table
to provide mandarin pinyin with the english-us-g2 table because I've
been working on learning chinese. After exiting the preferences menu
to check for the existance of my table I hit the dot 1 key and an 'a'
showed up on the console. Then I hit dot's 1 and 2 and was rewarded
with a 'b'. Go figure. So I typed 'ls' on the braille keyboard and low
and behold got my directory listing but after that there were no more
key responses after the fact. Nothing. I've been kind of busy on
another project so haven't had a chance to do anything else with it
for a few days but thought I should report my strange experience.

   Kirk

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Kirk Reiser on 2023/10/13 at 10:05 -0400]
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> Do you happen to know (perhaps from the manual) if the keyboard emulates a PC HID keyboard? If so, it mightn't be sending data that brltty can see.
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>> Here is the combined log from my last experimentation if you folks
>> might be kind enough to have a gander to see if I missed anything
>> significant.
>
> I'm not sure what, exactly, you mean by combined. The lines in the log look rather out of order. I'm hoping that you didn't try to do any form of manual merging.
>
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