[quoted lines by Isabel Ruffell on 2025/05/05 at 19:58 +0100] >2. After pairing the device on the computer (I have tried this with >bluetoothctl, blueman-manager, and through GNOME settings at different times) >the device appears in the list of "Connected Devices" on the BI 40X [that is, >both in the Terminal application and in the Options / Bluetooth menu.
I wonder if that means that there's an atual connection or just that it's in the paired devices list. >3a. If I initiate a connection from the computer (from any of those programs), >it goes into the connect/disconnect cycle. This through some uninformative >dialog boxes or similar. Just guessing that requesting a connection causes it to try an rfcomm (i.e. Bluetooth serial) connection, which the BI40X doesn't support. >3b: "Brailliant BI40X Disconnected". If I initiate the connection from the BI >40X, by selecting the connection there, it simply says "Braille Display". That's probably correct, though I don't personally have a BI40X in order to verify. I think it's simply telling you that it's now in Braille Display mode. That text will then be overwritten as soon as the screen reader on the host writes to it. >As a side-effect, thelast does also disrupt the speech on both the BI40X I think that's also expected given that the BI40X has switched into its braille display mode. This is because everything would now be under the control of the host's screen reader. >and the computer (via orca). I'm not sure why that'd be. >It is the distribution's package. I have not compiled anything. Maybe Debian (I think you said that's what you're using) doesn't build brltty such that it includes HID support. >But, just to reiterate: it works via usb, Yes, because brltty supports HID via USB internally. >and I could get the BrailleNote Touch working via bluetooth. Yes, because it uses rfcomm (i.e. Bluetooth serial). >It may be no more than that this unit does not do anything with a PIN as the >older unit did. The pairing with the BI40X is less involved, although I don't >know how far that affects anything under the hood. (I remember this being >flagged in the docs but that was a while ago.) No, that wouldn't matter. The PIN is only needed (or not needed) during pairing. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://mielke.cc/xmother.html (Letter from a Feminist ex-Mother) _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
