Re: brltty support for the new Orbit braille display, is anyone looking at that?

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Dear,
Driver development is not very easy. In most case, experienced driver developer must have braille display to develop specific driver for it. And because Braille display is not cheap as a mobile phone SIM cart or so cheap as most cheapest mobile phone model on The market, driver developer must obtain this device.

Next problem. Braille display manufacturer must provide The necessary technical informaton to The driver developer. In other case, reverseengineering work based on analysis The communication between computer and device is needed. By uswing special USB transfer monitoring apps. And this is not easy. Try to ask Dave Mielke on Brltty mailing list. Problem is, that by driving Braille device incorrectly can cause hardware damage of the device. So kernel driver development and eevice driver development is really not such kind of experimenting like while debugging simple program which do not drive specific device directly. I have read one article, that first versions of Brltty had difficulty with this. And that one Braille device have been accidentally damaged. So one manufacturer has borrowed display Braille display to The responsible developer. I do not know, who has so big C or C++ knowledge that he is able to incorporate new Braille device driver to Brltty package.
May be, MR Tibault and Dave Mielke? Or MR Mielke alone?
Linux for blind general discussion napsal(a):
Hi,
Many South Africans are eagerly awaiting the release of the Orbit braille display. Does anyone know if someone is working on adding support for this braille display to brltty?
TIA, Willem


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