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Ports and Interfaces => Serial Ports => Topic started by: GlennP on February 24, 2015, 10:36:00 am

Title: IrDA strangeness
Post by: GlennP on February 24, 2015, 10:36:00 am

Hi All,
I am attempting to use some IrDA units to transmit a string to test the link. Does the IrDA have a full means to do this? or is only certain characters as I'm finding alot of the question marks appearing in the rich text box...?
Glenn

Title: Re: IrDA strangeness
Post by: Jan Axelson on February 24, 2015, 01:05:24 pm

IrDA doesn't care what it's transmitting. It's likely an Encoding issue. See:

http://janaxelson.com/forum/index.php?topic=683.0

Title: Re: IrDA strangeness
Post by: GlennP on February 27, 2015, 08:19:27 am

Thanks for that, I have figured it out that the unit I was playing with was sending signals and decoding signals which weren't really ASCII (only the U was as due to the fact of the encoding 1010101010), problem when hardware & software was designed by one person who left! ::)