One of the nice things about the braillenote is its ability to be used silently in classes or meetings. The only problem is if something goes wrong and it becomes necessary to reset the braillenote in a meeting. That pleasant little tune that is played when starting up keysoft doesn't seem all that long until your boss pauses his or her presentation while it plays and plays and plays! You can avoid this little embarrassment by changing the startup sound to something a little more subtle.
This method requires a braillenote apex, a computer, and either a wired or wireless network connecting them. First turn on the Apex, go to the options menu, connectivity, and turn on your connection either wireless or Ethernet. Now go to options menu, connectivity, active connection details, and look for the ip address of your apex. This number is written in computer Braille and in my case was 192.168.1.146. Remember or write down this number as we will use it in a moment. Go ahead and return to the main menu and move over to the computer. On the computer press windows+r to get to the run dialog box. Type "telnet a.b.c.d" where a.b.c.d is the address we obtained from the braillenote earlier. You should get a ">" prompt. At this prompt type cd windows This will place you in the system directory on the braillenote where all the files that make it work are stored. Be careful in this directory because changing or deleting the wrong thing may force you to do a full reset of your braillenote. Now type copy "keysoft startup.wav" "keysoft startup2.wav" This will back up the file we are going to rename so we don't lose it. Next type copy "keysoft click.wav" "keysoft startup.wav" This command will copy the short unobtrusive click sound over the normal keysoft startup sound. Now type exit and press enter to log off of the braillenote. When you do a regular soft reset of the braillenote you should just get the click from now on. You can change the sound back by doing a hard reset or by copying keysoft startup2.wav back over keysoft startup.wav using the procedure above. -- Thomas Stivers Phone: (512) 522-5701 [email protected] ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
