On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 06:20:28PM +0300, Miika Turkia wrote: > > * Dive Computer connectivity > > - USB Host to Dive Computer > > - USB<->IRDA connector support > > - others? > > Likely USB is the minimum, and that then things can plug > > into it that actually connect to the DC. > > > > Linux gives us a wonderful starting point as all the devices will > > just work and even the iRDA USB plugs usually are supported. > > This will require some testing to ensure that the right modules > > are loaded, but that's fairly straight forward > > I am pretty sure we can do this by just connecting an IR led to GPIO > pins of the board. This works on my Raspberry Pi with a receiver led > and I don't see why it would not work on a C.H.I.P with a transceiver > led (or receiver and emitter leds). IIRC I didn't need to do anything > special to get this to work on the debian based distro I run on the > Pi. Anyway, I don't see the need for IR to be that common in our > application - for few people it would be useful, but for most > unnecessary.
iRDA is one of the fun use cases where potentially a lot of people will look at this little box. I am quite surprised that on nearly every dive trip I meet people with the Galileo - and neither Windows 10 nor Mac work for those out of the box. And that's what 95+% of the divers will have access to. That and iOS/Android. So I actually think that iRDA will be a rather useful part of all this. And yes, this could be done with a transceiver led on GPIO, I think. But all of these people already have an iRDA USB plug, so I see no reason why we shouldn't simply use those. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
