There is a site that has win95 software that uses builtin IRDA hardware to
control IR devices. The URL is
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA005810/remocon/remocone.htm
He apparently supports several different IRDA chipsets. I haven't dug into
the chipset spec sheets in a couple of weeks but if he can do it under
win95 we should be able to do it in linux.
BTW, I emailed the author re: a linux version. He responded but didn't
think he would do that anytime soon.
Chuck Moss
>
> Ah Ah, you belived it, didn't ya?
>
> Just a quick recap for the people from the Linux-IrDA mailing list:
> it's just that some LIRC users are dreaming to use LIRC with IrDA h/w.
> Some do read FAQs, some do not and then complain :-) My humble
> thoughts are ...
>
> Wouldn't be enough to provide the feature of using a dongle with a
> remote that can talk to it? I.e. being happy with a low-cost
> HPSIR/ASKIR IrDA header (CIR seems to be live only in high-end m/b,
> right?) that talks to a suitable remote (a non-consumer-tv one, that
> is).
>
> After all, the whole game is about being able to get an hex from a
> char device, right? Isn't that all LIRC does? I didn't read the
> sources, but to me it seems unlikely that Christoph went proggying i/o
> around. I mean, all you need is an abstraction layer on those hex's,
> so all you have to do after LIRC has learnt your remote buttons is
> something like:
> - read i/o
> - decode
> - write to IP socket
Controlling IR consumer devices is a more important feature to me.
>
> So, after all this waffling about things you all know more than
> perfectly...
>
> IrDA doesn't talk to tv-remotes, but it does have the IrCOMM layer to
> emulate a serial i/f. My guess is that to get LIRC working with it,
> you should just need to tell him/her (which sex Christoph? :-) to read
> from the IrCOMM virtual serial device (as you would with a /dev/cua or
> whatever) and use a remote that can be seen by your dongle+IrDAheader
> pair.
>
> If you check http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/status.html, you'll see
> that the bright guys from Linux-IrDA already have some IrCOMM support,
> so now all we should need is a remote that speaks IrDA HPSIR/ASKIR.
>
> Open questions:
> Does such an object exist?
> Am I foolishly travelling abscure lands which I do not comprehend?
> I.e. is there something I'm missing ... badly?
>
> Cherio
> Alessio
>
