IrDA ircomm

[anders_dk]

I intend to gather data from a handheld device to a desktop, the latter running labview 8.5.

The IrDA port in the handheld device is running IrCOMM at a fixed baud rate.

Looking through old messages in the forum it seems like Labview PDA, supports IrCOMM but not Labview. Can this be right?

Is it really nessecary to use library calls?

I am sure somebody allready solved this problem before, is someone willing to share the code?

Thanks in advance, Anders

[Eirikur]

IrCOMM is not supported by LabVIEW IrDA VIs. The LabVIEW IrDA VIs only use Tiny TP.

So you won't be able to communicate with an IrCOMM device using the LabVIEW IrDA VIs. However, there are two ways that you can try for communicating with your IrDA VIs:

1. If you can see your IrCOMM device as a COM device then you can use it as a VISA resource and use the VISA API to communicate with your IrCOMM device.
2. If you have the drivers for the device then you can communicate with it by making dll calls to the device.

However, you will not be able to directly communicate with an IrCOMM device using the LabVIEW IrDA functions.

[dfiorillo]

Eirikur,

Could you discribe the procedure to setting irda up in the Labview?

thanks,

David