Raw IR - Lego Mindstorms

I want to communicate with a Lego Mindstorms device from my Toshiba e740.

I'm able to receive raw IR from lego using OpenNETCF.OI.Serial.Port. It is
very strange begause from the Lego IR i send some data and on my PocketPC I
receive different data.
I tried everything. I set the communication speed to 2400, parity, stopbits,
etc... nothing seems to work.

If this can be solved by some tricks, the huge problem is sending data to
the Lego IR. I tried sending different schemas of data but it didn't seem to
work.

From what i read from the net it is a problem of IR versus IrDA...

Anyone had any luck in sending/receiving IR (non IrDA) from the PocketPC.
Toshiba e740 ?

Thanks, Bill

Bill
Sat Jan 03 12:35:16 CST 2004

After some work with Visual Embeeded Tools 3.0 i accessed the serial
directly with CreateFile and I encountered the same problems...

Strange though I recorded the IR output from the lego with a Remote Control
progeam and I tried to send it back. But tjhe lego brick does not recognize
the signals.

Help !!!

Cato
Tue Jan 06 07:54:08 CST 2004

This is due to the fact tha the MindStorm uses it's own
proprietary IR-protocol (it's mostly a hardware thing
apparently). The same kinds of questions cropped up when
MindStorm first hit the shelves and people with laptops
wanted to send commands directely to the MindStorm
device. I think they concluded that the PC (and thus the
PocketPC) uses IR hardware that can't communicate with
MindStorm and vice-versa.

So I don't think you'll get it to work with the builtin
hardware - sorry


>-----Original Message-----
>After some work with Visual Embeeded Tools 3.0 i
accessed the serial
>directly with CreateFile and I encountered the same
problems...
>
>Strange though I recorded the IR output from the lego
with a Remote Control
>progeam and I tried to send it back. But tjhe lego brick
does not recognize
>the signals.
>
>Help !!!
>
>
>.
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