Re: Tekram IrDA hardware (was: Hardware support)

On 09/15/17 10:11, Дима Шулинин wrote:
> Hello dear lirc team!
> Can you please confirm if Tekram 410W usb IR transmitter/receiver 
> supported by LIRC?
Hi Дима,

This is not an "offical" answer (Lirc is not commerically supported 
either :-)), but here are my 2 cents:

That thing (http://www.tekram.com/ir-410w-ir-mate-usb/) is not a sender 
or transmitter for customer IR, the kind you use for your audio/video 
equipment, it is an "IrDA" dongle, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association. This is a 
technology for short distance data communication, about as obsolete as 
the VHS tape. It is *very* different from "customer IR". See the 
"classic Lirc page": http://lirc.org/irda.html

But who knows, possibly there is someone out there who has it working 
"perfectly"?

Greetz,

Bengt

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