Hi, Ok, let me explain from the beginning. You may or may not know that Dolphin products use a program called Synthesizer Access Manager SAM to dynamically switch between any assistive technology device drivers that are present on the system. By default, SAM auto-detects any known Braille displays, speech synths etc on the system, and you as the user can then switch between any of these on the fly as you wish from within your Dolphin access product such as Hal or Supernova. This saves you having to re-start the system each time you want to use a different access device.
Now, with all that covered, all I did was to tell PK to pair with my Widcomm Bluetooth device running on my XP desktop machine, which in fact allocated PK virtual com port 4, since my Nokia phone is already paired to use com3 on the pc. SAM is capable of detecting ports up to and including com9, so having paired the two machines up, I performed an auto-detect devices under SAM and it offered me the PD Braille Note driver on com4, which I accepted and was away! Remember that to all intents and purposes, Bluetooth com ports can be treated by applications as legasy real serial ports, so I presume that SAM simply opens it and communicates with it as though it were a fixed port. Actually, when I look in my system, these Bluetooth virtual ports even have real addresses and presumably they would have IRQs too! Does that make sense to you? Paul. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu Sent: 11 November 2004 22:53 To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] The PK: My Impressions Hi Paul, Could you please enlighten us as to how you managed to use the PK as a braille display using Bluetooth? Last I heard, this was not possible! Indeed, the manual doesn't cover it. It does, however, appear trivial to implement using the existing Bluetooth serial service. How do you make the PK listen for connections on the Bluetooth serial port when the braille display terminal mode starts? Cheers, Sabahattin -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first) ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
