Infra-red fixed transmission

[Guest Belgarath Krall]

Right i will start by saying this is NOT for a tv remote, so hopefully that will save me being flamed... :D

What i would like to do, as a matter of interest, is to send a repeatable IR serial data string. I can't use the bog standard business card send because it wants to see something at the other end (another phone, laptop etc)

i imagine it would have to be a low level command, but i remember seeing that there isnt an api for the ir so easy i doubt this request is (yoda? never heard of him ;))

so there you have it - easy enough request i suppose :D

*sits back and awaits the flaming*

[Guest Matt Kirby]

Right i will start by saying this is NOT for a tv remote, so hopefully that will save me being flamed... :D

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*sits back and awaits the flaming*

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I like your style! :D

AFAIK you are right in saying that there is no infra-red API, so I would imagine that you would face the same problems that remote control fiddlers have had.

Having said that I would imagine that it would be easier to achieve than a TV remote application, assuming that you wanted to use an IrDA (Infra-red Data Assoc.) stream rather than CIR (Consumer IR) stream. Can't remember which way round it is, but one uses a constant stream, and the other one pulses.

Anyway, I'm going to bow out now before this descends into another TV remote thread! ;)

[Guest Belgarath Krall]

i would just like to know if i dig out visual studio and the sdk and have a bash at some code (after exams after) that i can get a handle on the irda port

either way i want to get a repeatable data stream out of it, but with the miserable luck that the *other* camp has had i doubt i will get much further

is there a way of sending a business card without having to be connected to something? there's a more sensible question, or does it need the handshake of the other device?

Edited March 2, 2005 by Belgarath Krall