Stenograph Wave does not seem to connect

Wendy O

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Jul 19, 2016, 9:06:15 AM7/19/16

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I have installed Plover 3.0. I am on Windows 10. My steno writer is the Wave, and I use the Phoenix Theory Dictionary.

When I configured, I selected TX Bolt which shows it's connected but text does not appear on my machine. When I configure to keyboard, I do get text output.

Am I missing something?

I can write text to a program using CC with output to Steno Keys. Hoping to use Plover for transcription work.

Thanks.

Theodore Morin

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Jul 19, 2016, 9:23:17 AM7/19/16

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I believe with the Wave you will need to use the Stentura protocol option in Plover. Then, in the machine configuration window, scan the COM ports to see what your options are. If you have multiple choices, you can look in device manager to try and figure out which one is your steno machine.

It is important that the machine creates a COM port, because we don't support USB-protocol (non-COM) in Plover yet. Maybe someone else with a Wave knows more.

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Ian Dawson

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Jul 19, 2016, 10:04:26 AM7/19/16

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In addition to what Theodore said on the Plover side, on the Wave, go into Setup > Options > and make sure that "USB Communication" is set to Standard not Mira. It will work with plover - mine does.

Wendy O

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Jul 19, 2016, 10:35:52 AM7/19/16

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I am now connected. I had the correct setup with both the com and USB Standard Setting. When I switched over to Stentura, it still wasn't connected. I then just changed the baud rate, then put the same baud rate back on, and it connected. Thanks.

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Hope Alvarez-Milliner

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Oct 27, 2016, 2:01:23 PM10/27/16

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Hey Ian,

The screen on my Wave has gone wacky (thanks to my two toddlers and a bottle of shampoo). My wave still works, and apparently is still communicating to the laptop, but I can't figure out which buttons to push to correspond to what needs to be done on the Wave Setup. Could you help me with this? I know Setup is the third one from the right, but after that I'm totally lost.

On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 10:04:26 AM UTC-4, Ian wrote:

In addition to what Theodore said on the Plover side, on the Wave, go into Setup > Options > and make sure that "USB Communication" is set to Standard not Mira. It will work with plover - mine does.

On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Theodore Morin <mori...@gmail.com> wrote:

I believe with the Wave you will need to use the Stentura protocol option in Plover. Then, in the machine configuration window, scan the COM ports to see what your options are. If you have multiple choices, you can look in device manager to try and figure out which one is your steno machine.

It is important that the machine creates a COM port, because we don't support USB-protocol (non-COM) in Plover yet. Maybe someone else with a Wave knows more.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:06 AM, 'Wendy O' via Plover <plove...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I have installed Plover 3.0. I am on Windows 10. My steno writer is the Wave, and I use the Phoenix Theory Dictionary.

When I configured, I selected TX Bolt which shows it's connected but text does not appear on my machine. When I configure to keyboard, I do get text output.

Am I missing something?

I can write text to a program using CC with output to Steno Keys. Hoping to use Plover for transcription work.

Thanks.

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Ian Dawson

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Oct 27, 2016, 2:08:27 PM10/27/16

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Hi Hope,

I'll have a go!

Turn on (obviously!)

3rd from right (as you said)

2nd from right

2nd from left twice

3rd from right

Button at far right

The machine will then restart and that should be it :)

Ian

Glen Warner

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Oct 27, 2016, 3:46:02 PM10/27/16

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Wow, Hope! Bummer about your Wave, but on the other hand, it could have been worse:

What you see up there was the result of a young mom who turned her back for "just a sec" on her toddler, who immediately took that opportunity to grab the (open) bottle of baby powder and started walking towards her writer ... and before mom could get to him, he gave that bottle a few good shakes, and ... well. You can see what happened!

If I recall correctly, she took her writer to her school to show the techs what happened. They were amazed, because they had never seen anything like that before! They, in turn, took it to the local steno repair company, who had also never seen anything quite like that, but he was so amazed that he cleaned her writer for her at no charge -- but I'm sure he took a lot of pictures during the process!