Re: good USB transceiver

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I've had the transceiver kit from http://iguanaworks.net/ir/
since this summer, was $25. I think they offer a preassembled
version for and extra $5. It is a serial transceiver, which
under LIRC control requires a serial port with it's own IRQ.
I have a multiport ISA serial card that uses no IRQs, and
what I thought was a plain PCI dual port serial card, but
shares a single IRQ -- of which the transceiver doesn't work
while connected to either of these. I just have it connected
to the motherboard's serial port, which works great. The
kit doesn't come with any sort of case, so it is somewhat
ugly, but it is fairly easy to arrange the transmit LED and
receiver IC to a location with in any kind of casing you
put it into.

Another, I've always thought looked good, but expensive is
the IRTrans (http://www.irtrans.de/en/index.php), and they
offer a serial, a USB, and now ethernet versions. I'm not
sure whether the serial version requires an IRQ to itself.
I do know that it has it's own bus structure, so that you
can daisy chain the IRTrans, and only have to have the
single connection to the computer for the serial and USB
versions.

I've seen a few other transceiver offers, which I don't
know their hyperlinks off hand.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" <an...@su...>
Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 0:04 am
Subject: Re: good USB transceiver

> 
>  Well, I want a sending unit to control my tv, tuner etc. I am
> making a Sharp Zaurus into a multi-remote using bluetooth. I guess
> I need a serial card anyway, I have a serial lcd and serial cord to
> control the cable box, and only one serial port :)
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:03:53PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:45 -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote:
> > >   What is a good USB transceiver I can buy?
> > 
> > I don't think there is any. unfortunately.
> > 
> > Myself, I've resorted to getting a USB RF Keyboard (BTC9019URF) 
> for my
> > needs.
> > 
> > Works great.
> > 
> > Would prefer a remote though..
> > 
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