Hi,
Thanks for the input. I am still a little fuzzy about IRDA. If we use
IrCOMM on the palm, does this use the IRDA protocol stack? If so, then
would we be forced to comply with IRDA protocol on the embbeded system.
We had planned to develop our own protocol to avoid overhead the full
IRDA overhead on the embedded system. Using the current version of the
serial manager, we were going to treat IR communications as a serial
port using our own protocol. So, our original question was whether this
would still be supported. We are trying to avoid the use of the IRDA
protocol on the embedded system. Perhaps this is what you understood in
your first reply. However, from what little I have read, IrCOMM is
simply the top layer of IRDA protocol that abstracts everything. This is
great for the palm, but doesn't this force the details onto the embedded
system??
Thanks
Gerry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Williams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 7:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IR without IRDA
>
> > We are developing an embedded application that does not have enough
> > memory for the IRDA stack. We are getting the Palm to communicate
> > through the serial manager to the IR hardware successfully. The
> > question is, will this type of functionality be supported in the
> > future and is there better support right now for it? We had to do
> > alot of guessing by reading the include files and trial and error.
>
> It depends exactly what you mean. If you are using the serial manager
> to communicate via IrCOMM then this is certainly implemented in the
> future - you can either use the IR enhancements from 3com which allow
> you to map serial output as IrCOMM - it gives the user a new panel in
> preferences to swap between cradle and IR serial functions (this can
> be used to IR HotSync, also...). The other way is to upgrade to OS
> 3.3 and use the new serial manager - this allows you to open the
> serial port as 'ircm' directly and send as IrCOMM without any
> prerequisite for the user to change the port map. The new sm also
> allows you to open the IR hardware directly(?). Have at look at
> 'Specifying the Port ID' on page 205 of the programmers companion
> (and also the stuff before it).
>
> If anyway an point me in the right direction to get the header files
> so that I can actually _use_ the New Serial Manager, I would be very
> very grateful... 8).
>
>
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