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Infrared enabled calcs to iMac Intel ? - Olivier TREGER - 03-25-2007
Hi there,
As stated in the title, I'd like to use the infrared capability of my iMac Intel slate-shaped computer to communicate.
Is there a way to do that?
Thanks
Re: Infrared enabled calcs to iMac Intel ? - Guest - 03-25-2007
Probably not. The iMacs only have IR recievers for the remote. If they had transmitters, you might be able to do something uesful. As it stands, the best you could hope to accomplish would be to print to the iMac.
Re: Infrared enabled calcs to iMac Intel ? - Olivier TREGER - 03-25-2007
By the way, I didn't intend to send anything from the Mac but rather TO the Mac.
Any idea?
Re: Infrared enabled calcs to iMac Intel ? - Jonathan Eisch - 03-25-2007
The IR receiver is seen to the OS as a HID class device, that is, not IrDA or similar. So, you'll have to teach your HP to talk the apple remote language. I doubt the receiver hardware is capable of doing IrDA even with the right drivers. If you're using a 49g+/50g, we know the range of the IR is only a couple inches, so what's the point?
-Jonathan
Edited: 26 Mar 2007, 1:36 a.m. after one or more responses were posted
Re: Infrared enabled calcs to iMac Intel ? - Olivier TREGER - 03-26-2007
Well, I thought it'd be closer to a PDA behaviour.
I think I'll give on this one...