Compatibility with Nokia Phone

[Guest]

I was curious if this unit will work with my Nokia 3650. I want to use to control my stereo equipment as well, but do not want to buy a second unit to transfer files to and from my phone. Any help would be most appreciated.

Regards,
Eidolon

[jrhees]

Eidolon,

Your Nokia phone likely uses 'IrDA' protocols for IR communication. Unfortunately, the USB-UIRT does not offer IrDA support.

-Jon

[Eidolon]

Would there be an easy to moderately difficult way to modify this unit to handle both protocols? I am pretty crafty with a soldering iron, just not up to par in my IR knowledge.

1) Is there a single chip solution to to handle the IrDA protocol? Thereby allowing me to use the existing emitter, receiver, and serial interface via a switch of some sort?

2) If that is totally out of the question due to ????, do you know of any other product that would meet my needs?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as I don't fancy having to carry 2 separate IR devices around. If only Compaq would have built my laptop with an IR port

Regards,

Eidolon

[jrhees]

Unfortunately, the answer is no. The IRDA emitter/detector pair (the optoelectronics) are very different and are sensitive to a different modulation frequency. So, besides the optos, you would also have to change out the processor, the front-end USB interface, etc. etc. By that time, you've completely designed a USB-IRDA dongle.

-Jon

[Eidolon]

Thank you for the timely and informative reply. I guess I'm stuck. Right now it's more important for me to be able to back up my phone, so I will search out a decent IrDA USB dongle for now. Once I have that set up and working, I can concentrate on the UIRT. If anyone has suggestions on an IrDA dongle, I'd be grateful to hear them. Thanks again for the helpful info.

Regards,

Eidolon