Ok, I have my firmware version. The do not make this easy for sighted people
:-D
The firmware menu item reads:
Firmware: 2.10.0 BT 1.20.0 1.4.0
And I have a little more detail about the behavior. The alva will still
generate keyboard input after BrlTTY is started, but it stops generating them
as soon as I take control of the device through BrlAPI. After this, the
keyboard events are not captured by BrlTTY, and if I give focus to another
application and try to type some characters, the characters no longer appear.
I'm using BrlTTY on windows, in case I forgot to mention that :)
-Nick
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From: Nicholas Dechman <[email protected]>
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Alva BC640 perkins input
Having BrlTTY capture the keystrokes is what I want, because I want to be able
to handle control keys outside the application that is using the braille
display. BrlTTY does not appear to be capturing any keys, however, and the
keys are not appearing as standard keyboard input either. The just vanish.
I am still getting used to the menus on this thing and I read braille very
slowly, so it's gonna take me a bit to get the firmware version. Unless
there's a sneaky way to find the firmware version without navigating a bunch of
menus on the device :)
-Nick
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From: Jason White <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Alva BC640 perkins input
Nicholas Dechman <[email protected]> wrote:
> My Alva BC640 behaves in an interesting way.
>
> When I connect the device to my computer -- before I turn on BrlTTY, I am
> able to type on the perkins keys as if the alva was a standard USB keyboard,
> but, of course, the device's braille display doesn't do anything.
>
> Once I turn on BrlTTY, I get the expected text on the braille display, but
> the perkins keys no longer do anything.
>
> One potential problem is that the Alva's keyboard and display appear to be
> different devices with different port numbers.
>
> Can anybody point me in the right direction to get the whole thing working at
> the same time?
I can't help with this, but there have been issues discussed on the list with
different versions of Alva's firmware. Which version are you running?
Also,
does the keyboard appear as a human input device to the USB interface?
If so, then it really should work, since this is supported at the operating
system level rather than by BRLTTY. I suppose you could make sure that BRLTTY
isn't intercepting the keyboard just to eliminate that variable from the
situation.
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