Hi Tom,
Very good - slightly safer, I think.
If you don't mind, could you share a little bit about yourself -
what kind of BrailleNote you are using, how long have you used
your BrailleNote and so forth? It sounds as though you are a
BrailleNote veteran with months and years of experience.
One thing to note is that if you do restore the default sound
set, you'll lose KeySoft extensions in the process (I'd term this
"Clean Reset" rather than "hard reset," since these days hard
reset refers to hardware restart).
Again I'm impressed with your knowledge and willingness to share
another method of manipulating system sounds via telnet
connection...
Cheers,
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Stivers <[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:04:09 -0600
Subject: [Braillenote] How to Change the Startup Sound on the
BraillenoteApex
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]
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