You can get IrDa for PCs - just buy a serial dongle (about 35 quid) eg
Greenwich GirBil or Actisys are obtainable in UK easily. Use Obex for
programming - its easy and there is code (may be hard to find until the
IRDA pages have been moved completely). Palms are ok, and understand
obex natively, though they are a pain to program for. Have never used
WinCE devel tools. Psion is the other option at that sort of price.
It really doesnt take long to get something going using the example
codes. Also look at the archives for the Ultra protocol codes from
Jean at HP, which has Palm and Linux clients and servers.
Justin
>
> Guys,
>
> Apologies if this is well trodden ground; I'm an IrDA newbie.
>
> Basically, I'm doing some research for my PhD which involves PDA-type
> devices sending data to/from each other/PCs. My sponsor has given
> me a rough budget of around 300ukp (~500usd) to get some hardware kit
> which will allow me to do this research.
>
> My immediate reaction (in the absence of bluetooth stuff) is to buy a
> couple of cheap Palm Pilots with IrDA ports and get them to talk to
> either (a) a laptop with IrDA on it, or (b) assuming there is one
> which is compatible with linux, an IrDA add-on for my PC (is there?).
>
> That said, HP Jornada 430 PDAs are going for a song at the moment
> (~150ukp), so I could get a couple of those (except that I'm then
> forced to try to write my PDA app using M$ tools).
>
> SO! I would be eternally grateful for advice, particularly on
> appropriate devices to buy and the feasibility of the whole notion of
> getting the PC and PDAs to talk to each other (i.e. are there good
> libraries for such things to prevent me having to worry too much about
> the IrDA protocols).
>
> Many thanks in advance for any replies, (please cc: any replies to me).
>
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