IrDA using TV Card infrared eye

Hi,

I've searched around, but haven't found any drivers or any means to
use a TV card's infrared eye for IrDA. I'm not even sure if it is
electrically possible, but if so it would be an excellent way to
utilize the infrared eye on the Brooktree/Conexant family of TV cards
for other uses. Programs such as bRemote directly access the infrared
eye for remote control of the computer, so I'm hopeful that the eye's
use as an IrDA device is possible.

Does anything like this exist, or could it be done?

Thanks,
Sarmad Gilani

Sarmad,

I went through my notes and found this comment from a colleague, "TVs/VCRs
use IrDA-C standard for consumer electronics devices. Microsoft implements
the IrDA-D standard geared toward rapid data exchange, which has much
shorter range (1 m) but much higher throughput than IrDA-C. The standards
use different class Ir diodes and implement different modulation schemes so
there is an incompatibility at the physical layer."

Other members may have additional information.

HTH,

Bryan S. Burgin


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