Question about the android app

[Jef Driesen]

On 2016-01-08 06:16, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 07/01/2016 23:22, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> That said... Galileo Sol is iRDA based, correct? That will never be
>> supported on Android, isn't supported on Mac and Windows 10. So that 
>> may
>> not be a great choice if downloading to the Android device is what you
>> want to be able to do. Our current expectation is that we'll be able 
>> to
>> support BT based dive computers and some dive computers that have 
>> download
>> mechanisms that are based on FTDI chips (e.g. the OSTC dive 
>> computers).
>> 
> See the URL below. Owning a Galileo myself, I was intrigued by the
> guys below who appear to use a "normal" USB OTG connection and a
> Uwatec IR adapter to read the dives from a Sol into Android. I assume
> they must have found some way to implement an IrDA stack in Android?
> Dirk, with your German connections, would you be able to obtain more
> information?
> 
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.confitek.divemateusb

Divemate has created a small hardware accessory (Fusion IR) to make this 
work. I assume the IrDA stack is running on the device, and on the host 
side (PC, Android) it's just a normal USB device.

http://www.divemate.de/

Jef