[BRLTTY] Mantis Q40

2021-03-08 Thread Dave Mielke
Is there a Mantis Q40 user here who could contact me for the purpose of doing a USB test on Linux with it? -- 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: d...@mielke.cc | Ottawa, Ontario

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-14 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Florian Beijers on 2021/02/14 at 23:30 +0100] >Output of sdptool browse with the q40 set to the channel of the kali machine >is below, quite a lot is happening there: The device is using Bluetooth HID for its braille protocol. That's why it isn't working. I've yet to learn how

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-14 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Florian Beijers wrote: > Hello Dave, > > For some reason, your message didn't make it to me, but I saw it from > the list digest. That's because every messages distributed by the mailing list server has the "Reply-To: " header entry. This means that, by default, the

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-14 Thread Florian Beijers
Hello Dave, For some reason, your message didn't make it to me, but I saw it from the list digest. > I believe you mentioned that this braille device can connect to multiple > hosts. > This implies that it may use multiple channels, and that might be the problem. > In other words, brltty

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-14 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Florian Beijers on 2021/02/10 at 17:14 +0100] > >>manually trusting the device first, > > Trusting only matters insofar as when connection to the host is being > requested > by the device. That isn't the case with brltty, i.e. it's always the case that >

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-14 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Florian Beijers on 2021/02/10 at 17:14 +0100] >I have done some more experimenting, and quite simply, the unit just >won't sit up and take notice where brltty is concerned. Connection >goes off without a hitch, the HID keyboard part works, but error 111: >connection refused from

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-10 Thread Florian Beijers
Just realized I only sent this to Mario before, my bad. I have done some more experimenting, and quite simply, the unit just won't sit up and take notice where brltty is concerned. Connection goes off without a hitch, the HID keyboard part works, but error 111: connection refused from RFCOMM is

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-09 Thread Florian Beijers
Ok, I ran a few more tests but still am not really getting anywhere. I tailed the journalctl to see what wold happen if I were to cycle to and away from the box I'm trying to connect, that did nothing whatsoever. Then, I hopped back into bluetoothctl and saw that it was connecting and

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-09 Thread Florian Beijers
Hi, Ok, so the mantis q40 is a hybrid device of a keyboard and a braille display. I have paired it through the GUI and I can confirm that the keyboard part of it works fine. So I would say it is paired correctly. The way this device works is that you can connect to several devices at once, with a

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-09 Thread Mario Lang
Florian Beijers writes: > I see a whole lot of RFCOMM errors, either connection refused or resource > busy. > What would that indicate? My first question would be: Are you sure you have correctly paired the device? Does bluetoothctl report it as paired? -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-09 Thread Florian Beijers
Hi, I see a whole lot of RFCOMM errors, either connection refused or resource busy. What would that indicate? Florian Op di 9 feb. 2021 om 18:05 schreef Mario Lang : > Florian Beijers writes: > > > Just tried pairing my APH Mantis q40 to a Kali machine running brltty > 6.3, but > > brltty

Re: [BRLTTY] mantis q40

2021-02-09 Thread Mario Lang
Florian Beijers writes: > Just tried pairing my APH Mantis q40 to a Kali machine running brltty 6.3, but > brltty seems to be unable to recognize it. > I''ve set the brailleDevice directive in brltty.conf to Bluetooth:address, > where > address is the address info returns from the bluectl

[BRLTTY] mantis q40 on Android?

2020-12-02 Thread Florian Beijers
Hello all, I am currently playing with an APH Mantis q40 braille display. I am attempting to use it with my Android device, but I am running into some trouble, and I'm not sure how to debug this further. - Android: v10 - BRLTTY: Latest, as of October 18th 2020. - Connection Method: Bluetooth.