I am new to this mailing list and recently had an experience with brltty that I would like to report. I can't see any access to historical posts so am unable to determine whether this subject has been mentioned already so I apologies upfront fpor any duplication.
I recently found that my I could not connect to my Arduino boards as they were no longer showing up as serial ports on my PC running Linux Mint. On further investigation I found the brltty and also brltty-udev service running on the machine. I did not have this running before and did not request this to be installed, but somehow there it was, presumably installed by an OS update. As it turns out, this is a known issue on the Arduino discussion forums. As per advice, I disabled both services, but this unfortunately did not restore normality. In fact, the service was still being loaded as could be evidenced by running the 'ps -ef' command to show a list of running processes. It runs out that the disabling the service was not sufficient and the brltty and brltty-udev packages needed to be un-installed from the system. Only then and finally after a re-boot, the boards started to show up as normal and I could connect to them. I should point out that Arduino is not the only area of electronics that I work with, that also requires access to serial ports. Whereas I appreciate the necessity of having such software for those who need Braille, I don't understand why it was installed automatically as a mainstream service as part of an OS update? I would expect such a program to be installed on an as-needs basis? Secondly, disabling the service ought to have been sufficient to prevent the software from disrupting the operation of the system, but it wasn't. It had to be completely removed. Is this a bug? If so, where do I report it? I see the 'issues' function on the Github repository is not enabled. Thirdly, can the software be configured to ignore certain ports? Finally, if a program or update is likely to disrupt what might generally be considered 'normal' operation of the system (I "generally" because I accept that for users of Braille, having brltty installed is their 'normal'), shouldn't the software at least warn the user of this and request confirmation before installing itself? Perhaps this has been done with the intention of making it as seamless as possible for Braille users to be able to make use of the program so I mean no disrespect, but I am curious as to how and why it suddenly appeared on my system. -- John. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.app For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
