[iT4c0]

I just bought a Panasonic GD87 for my gf. The phone uses infrared and WAP to download stuff. I was wondering if there is anyway I can use infrared in OS X and how?
thanks!

[Appleman]

Originally posted by iT4c0:
I just bought a Panasonic GD87 for my gf. The phone uses infrared and WAP to download stuff. I was wondering if there is anyway I can use infrared in OS X and how?
thanks!

Well, of course you need to have a Mac that has an infrared port. But even then, IR doesn't seem to be such an open format: controlling your tv with your IR enabled phone doesn't work, so I guess you need some apps as well.

[cms]

Originally posted by iT4c0:
I just bought a Panasonic GD87 for my gf. The phone uses infrared and WAP to download stuff. I was wondering if there is anyway I can use infrared in OS X and how?
thanks!

If you don't have infrared on your Mac, you can add a USB IrDA device very easily. I bought one for my iMac G4 Superdrive and use it all the time to sync my Palm (nice not to have to make space on my desktop for that ugly HotSync cradle!). I bought it here:

www.higoto.com

for not very much money. The site is very efficient. I placed my order and the product was delivered to my UK address two days later.

Installation is as easy as plugging it in and configuring under the network preferences pane. It takes all of ....... ooooooh about 2 minutes.

[iT4c0]

does it work in US? I will go check some IrDA device. It would be cool if I can do it here in US

[cms]

Originally posted by iT4c0:
does it work in US?

There is no reason (that I can think of) why not. Give it a go and let me know how you get on......

[barney ntd]

USB/IrDA bridges are defined in the USB 1.1 standard, so they (should) all work with Apple's built-in driver (AppleUSBIrDA.kext). For connecting to the internet, you can just use the network control panel to configure the phone's modem, and all should work.

Copying other things like addresses, ring tones etc. needs software specific to your phone, which may or may not be available (or you could write it yourself!). All the low-level communications work is still done by AppleUSBIrDA.kext.

The reason TV and other remote controls don't work is because they don't use the IrDA protocol. IrDA is a nice, well specified, standard protocol, and if anyone made a TV with an IrDA remote, you could control it from an IrDA-equipped mac. But TVs use their own (older and much simpler) protocols which are totally incompatible.

Barney.

[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by cms:

www.higoto.com

this URL works better
http://www.higoto.de/us/index_us.html