hmmm.....sounds interesting. I'd like to get it working on an 'F84. Some
"mini-IrDA" protocol would have to be established; and would be pretty
cool to have my PIC talk to a CE device for example.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Dattalo [SMTP:scott@DATTALO.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 10:00 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: IRDA?
>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ken Webster wrote:
>
> > >Could anybody on the list point me in the right direction
> > >to find info on how to communicate with my laptop's infrared port
> > >using a microcontroller?
> >
> >
> > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/irda.html
> >
>
> Or re-phrased, has anyone written an IrDA stack for a pic? Would
> anyone
> like to begin an Open Sourced pic-irda project? I for one would be
> interested in participating and would be willing to host a web page. I
> don't care to lead the project though.
>
> A good place to begin would be with the Linux-IrDA project:
>
> http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/
>
> From there, one could obtain the C-sources and theoretically port them
> to
> the pic. The obvious caveats would be overcoming the memory
> assumptions
> made. But, supporting a subset of IrDA would not be too difficult. I
> could
> envision an SIR mode only interface on a pic with a UART (e.g. the
> C64),
> and supporting the IrLAP, IrLMP, IAS, and a portion of TinyTP. IrCOMM
> would be cool, but I really don't see legacy software needing it per
> se.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Scott