[u-a-dev] [BRLTTY] Re: [Bug 84139] Re: Arduino detected as braille device

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

>>Ah oops, indeed, I overlooked that. It's in the brltty repository too,
>>so I'm Ccing the mailing list: a Ubuntu user just wanted to plug a
>>special USB adapter (not related to braille at all), and brltty got
>>started, because the ID of his adapter is
>
> The problem would be that brltty needs to do a bit more checking in order to
> more accurately detect that type of braille display. Right now it's just
> checking the vendour and product ids. It should probably also be checking other
> things like the product and/or manufacturer names.

Unfortunately, the vendor/product strings were not specially
set for Handy Tech.  They look like a standard serial
adaptor.  My ME88 says "FTDI" as Vendor string and
"USB->Serial" as product string.  That is not going to
help.

> We'll have to check one of those displays to see what it takes to
> uniquely identify it.

I am afraid we can't, without opening the device and looking at the
reset answer.

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Arduino detected as braille device
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84139