Hello Willem, On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Willem Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastien, > > The Uwatec/Scubapro IrDA adapters are indeed based on the Moschip MCS 7780, > as you say, still commonly and cheaply available.
Thanks for the info. I never bought the overpriced Uwatec adapter but only really cheap chinese ones. I've got a STIR4200 based one and a more obscure Tanic S110 one. The S100 is a quasi-clone of the STIR4200 but with the endpoints shufffled. I had to hack the stir4200 driver to be able to use it. > One area outside diving > where IrDA is till commonly used is in high-voltage environment > instrumentation where radio-based communication faces too much noise. Never though of that, but that makes a lot of sense. > The problem with IrDA is probably the communications protocol that is not > maintained any more. Right, and for a reason, it's so bloated that nobody longer really cares with it. > From a hardware point of view infra-red communication > is cheap and efficient with a much lower parts count than BT and with very, > very small current drain. Agreed. Cheers, Sébastien. _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
