Infrared enabled calcs to iMac Intel ?

[Olivier TREGER]

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

[Guest]

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.

[Olivier TREGER]

By the way, I didn't intend to send anything from the Mac but rather TO the Mac.

Any idea?

[Jonathan Eisch]

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

[Olivier TREGER]

Well, I thought it'd be closer to a PDA behaviour.

I think I'll give on this one...