Sorry about that, everyone knows I can't type well. That's an Alba bv640. The important thing is the usb serial addapter for the Espire One. I don't have a Braille Lite, but in theory, my solution should work.
Gene Collins >Hello Cathy. I have an Acer Espire One, and two different Braille >displays. An Alb bc640, and a TSI Power Braille. As you know, the Acer >Espire One has now serial ports that the Braille Lite can connect to. >This problem is Nop insurmountable however. You can by a usb serial >addapter, plug it in to the Espire One, and then set up the serial port >on the Braille Lite, and then install brltty for Windows, and just open >notepad to let a sighted person type. This solution would require the >sighted person to occasionally exit note pad, and then reenter it, >because you'll eventually run out of resources, disk space, memory, etc, >but it should work. The last time I bought a usb serial addapter from >Best Buy, they cost about 30 dollars. > >Hope this helps. > >Gene > > > >>My goal is to connect a Braille Lite to an Acer Aspire One netbook (or any la p >top) so that a sighted person can type via QWERTY keyboard and have a deafblin d > person read out the communication on the Braille Lite. (Face-to-face communic a >tion) I'm having a hard time finding the right cable for one thing but I'm sti l >l working on that. Besides that, would brltty help me in getting the two devic e >s to communicate with each other? Or am I meowing up the wrong cat tree? I sur e > could use some helpful feedback. Your website looks hopeful. Thx very much. >> >>CathyM >>_______________________________________________ >>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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >_______________________________________________ >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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
