brltty definitely has a driver for braillenotes (
http://mielke.cc/brltty/doc/drivers/BrailleNote-keys.txt) but I believe it
only works with the RS-232 serial port. No usb or bluetooth. It's pretty old
though with the readme still saying they're made by PDI instead of
Humanware.

- Chris

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> Really? Well, either nvda is not using the latest version, or it does
> work (maybe on 32-bit only?) but no one has documented it. Set your
> favorite braille terminal com device to com1, everyone, and give it a
> shot! I recommend making sure you have nvda2010.1, the latest stable
> version released, as I seem to remember a mention of a brltty update.
> Let me boot up nvda and see what I can see... using win7x64 with an
> apex over bluetooth on com8, so this should be fun...
>
> On 4/9/10, Sam Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The latest version of BRLTTY executable for windows most certainly does
> > support BrailleNote mPower.
> > I have tested this on Com1 only at this point.
> > Cheers
> > Sam
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ---------------
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braille display support
> >    From: Alex Hall <[email protected]>
> >    Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:06:24 -0400
> >      To: Joseph Lee <[email protected]>
> >      Cc: [email protected]
> >
> > NVDA uses BrlTTY for its braille support. This package does not yet
> > support Humanware notetakers and, until it does, there is nothing the
> > NVDA devs can to to incorperate support. This is my understanding of
> > the situation, not a definitive answer.
> >
> > On 4/9/10, Joseph Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Chris,
> >> If the command structure for NVDA's braille control mechanism can
> >> be assigned just like JAWS functions, then I can see near
> >> emulation of KeySoft commands and NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop
> >> Access..
> >> Cheers,
> >> Joseph
> >>
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[email protected]
> >> To: "Robert Cummings"
> >> <[email protected]>,<[email protected]
> >> om
> >> Date sent: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:47:03 +0100
> >> Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braille display support
> >>
> >> Hi, unless it's possible with Brltty, NVDA does not support the
> >> BrailleNote
> >> out of the box.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Robert Cummings" <[email protected]
> >> To: <[email protected]
> >> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 5:45 PM
> >> Subject: [Braillenote] braille display support
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Can the braillenote be used as a braille display with NVDA? I
> >> looked in the
> >> braille options, but I couldn't see an option for the
> >> braillenote.  Also, I
> >> heard that Talks has braille support; does the braillenote work
> >> as a braille
> >> display with Talks?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Robert Cummings (message sent from laptop)
> >>
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