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Re: IR Tower Use
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lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Tue, 29 May 2001 16:16:29 GMT
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Matthew Miller wrote:
Not really -- the tower uses its own proprietary communcations format.
This isn't true at all.  The tower converts an RS-232 serial transmission
directly into IR and vice-versa.  It is a pretty standard protocol.

Ooops, sorry. I didn't really mean proprietary -- I meant "not normal for
remote controls".

nod, but that made me think if we can use the IrComm package, and use a
laptop's ir port to communicate with the rcx - didn't get a chance to try
it yet - did anyone?

Dan



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  Re: IR Tower Use
 
(...) The only IrCOMM I know of is part of the IrDA standard. It provides something that looks just like a typical serial port to the application, but underneath is layered on top of IrLAP (packet based link level prototocol for IrDA). This means (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: IR Tower Use
 
(...) Ooops, sorry. I didn't really mean proprietary -- I meant "not normal for remote controls". (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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