On 2018/12/07 08:59, Robert Helling wrote:
Willem,
On 7. Dec 2018, at 07:42, Willem Ferguson
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Divemate has an IR mobile phone dongle that works for at least the
Uwatec range of computers that are IrDA. I have no idea whether that
is a full implementation of the IrDA stack or whether it is just a
hack. It would be very useful to know what their approach was in
designing this.
experience with respect to DiveMate shows in particular that they are
not willing to share technical information. They happen to be a Munich
based company and I had lunch with them a while ago. There they
expressed that since they want to sell their software (besides their
hardware) they are not sharing anything to make Subsurface compatible
with their hardware.
Best
Robert
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Not even if one bought a FusionIR product from them and tried to get
that to work with Subsurface-Mobile? We would then promote use of their
FusionIR product. The price of the Fusion is equivalent (and as
exorbitant) as is the official IR dongles from divecomputer
manufacturers. But there is real longer term promise here given that
IrDA support is rapidly disappearing from OS kernels.
I am not yet convinced that Android is (or maybe yet) the ideal platform
for peripheral compatibility development (let alone iOS). In 10 years
time maybe that part of the OS will be more mature. But alas we live in
a real world where present-day solutions are required.
Kind regards,
willem
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