Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-21 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, I am using a portable version of brltty and a HIMS note taker over bluetooth serial. Since this is only braille display I have, I too can't get the USB to work. Perhaps try connection over bluetooth? Lastly, brltty is not listed in the options in the latest nvda. I hope this helps. On Tue,

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-21 Thread Eigeldinger Simon
Hi Lars, I found out something interesting as well. I just started brltty with the run-brltty.bat file. As a normal user as well as a admin. brltty came up and found my device (handy tech braille star 80). I was able to use the console. When i start the brltty windows service that is installed by

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-21 Thread Eigeldinger Simon
Hello Paul, Downgrading NVDA to such a very old version isn't an option. The person who would need this workaround works on Windows 11 so running the latest NVDA would be a requirement. But it seems that also brltty seems not to be able to find the braille device in the first place. Which

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-21 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Thank you for pointing this out. On Windows 11, I've only tested BRLTTY 6.6 with a Handy Tech Modular Evolution braille display in cmd (console). I'm only able to get it working if I start cmd as administrator. Otherwise I get permission errors. Lars On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 05:45:25AM -0500,

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-21 Thread Paul Scott
I think that brltty does work on window but not with nvda and jaws. As far as I know brltty 6.4 is used in narrators. Lastly I use brltty 6.6 frequently with window CMD console. My suggestion is use older nvda version such as 2022. Hope it helps. On Tue, May 21, 2024, 1:54 AM Mario Lang wrote:

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-21 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. None of our active devs really use Windows on a regular basis. I wonder if it was a good idea to port to that platform, since that raises expectations on the user side. Simon Eigeldinger writes: > Hi, > > Have redone that with admin privileges. > Forgot about that. :-) > Seems we have the