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tomkaczmar
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
I have SMC IrCC on my Dell Latitue. I've been trying to run Girder on it as the specs show it also supports direct tx/rx. However, Girder asks for com port and Win2k doesn't map any port for it. Can anyone help?
nash
October 18th, 2003, 01:15 PM
I also have the SMC IrCC - Fast Infrared Port on my laptop, and I would also like to get it configured with Girder. Does Girder need a plugin to be able to get input commands from the SMC IrCC?
JimHugh
October 18th, 2003, 08:24 PM
Sounds like it is probably IRDA and not consumer IR.

IRDA is not supported by most consumer IR remotes. Different frequency and protocol.

I suspect that you are out of luck as Girder does not have IRDA support.
nash
October 18th, 2003, 09:29 PM
I'm more or less a newbie here... what's the difference between IRDA and consumer IR?
JimHugh
October 18th, 2003, 09:40 PM
http://www.girder.nl/help/faq.php#202

Irda is primarily used for pda, cellphone, printer, laptop (and the like) bidirectional communications emulating a serial port over a short range (1m to 2m) infrared carrier.

A consumer remote control uses a unidirectional burst frequency/protocol that is unqiue for each key to send a command over a longer distance to control audio video consumer electronics like tv, stereo, cd and dvd players.