Hi,

I am looking to achieve serial communication using IRDA on my phone.

I have devices with 8 bit controllers from which i have to get data.
On these devices i have implemented IR. Now I want a mobile phone to
be able to download data from them.

Suggestions? I don't know how to open a comm port on any mobile phone
to achieve serial communication.

I cannot use IRDA protocols to communicate.

Thanks,
Rohan

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Rohan wrote:
First of all we need to know what OS your phone is running (if any). If
you're on windows mobile you're in luck - the WM api is really good for
working with IR. If you're using a dumbphone it may be a little harder.

Also, not all smartphones allow you to use the IR stack in serial mode -
some phones will only work in IRDA mode.

- --
Brendan Gillatt | GPG Key: 0xBF6A0D94
brendan {a} brendangillatt (dot) co (dot) uk
http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFH4nyEuv4tpb9qDZQRAqS5AJ9ydskoQbKm2c9tyNtmlJ 80lkndLQCfUYDJ
Q8VjO4fQz/wMQdvk2F6Fku0=
=XIl9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Rohan wrote:

Rohan,

More details would probably help here. What phone, what OS, etc.

I know that Palm phones had pretty good IR support. IIRC, Serial
Manager API and the IR Library were the way to get access to it.

More than just irda is supported on the Palms.... I remember remote
control (ie tv, stereo, vcr etc) applications, and so on. You can do
RAW IR.

I was googling around and found this neat tidbit

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/e...tes/00888a.pdf

I've almost completely forgot about programming those little palms.
Really neat stuff. CodeWarrior. Right. That was fun.

For fast rapid development, http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/ was really good
too.

ahh well, I digress.

Keith

Hi All,

I am open with my choice of OS. Whichever OS supports best and easiest
implimentation would be fine. Symbian, windows mobile, pocket PC, palm
OS.

Its bytes which I want to transmitt at 9600 Baud Rate and want my
Controller's UART to receive these in bytes form.

Thanks,
Rohan

On Mar 21, 1:46*am, Keith M <keit...@yanktheobvious.verizon.net>
wrote: