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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018/12/07 08:59, Robert Helling
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!important;" class="">Divemate has an IR mobile phone
dongle that works for at least the Uwatec range of
computers that are IrDA. I have no idea whether that is a
full implementation of the IrDA stack or whether it is
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experience with respect to DiveMate shows in particular that they
are not willing to share technical information. They happen to be
a Munich based company and I had lunch with them a while ago.
There they expressed that since they want to sell their software
(besides their hardware) they are not sharing anything to make
Subsurface compatible with their hardware.
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<p>Not even if one bought a FusionIR product from them and tried to
get that to work with Subsurface-Mobile? We would then promote use
of their FusionIR product. The price of the Fusion is equivalent
(and as exorbitant) as is the official IR dongles from
divecomputer manufacturers. But there is real longer term promise
here given that IrDA support is rapidly disappearing from OS
kernels.<br>
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<p>I am not yet convinced that Android is (or maybe yet) the ideal
platform for peripheral compatibility development (let alone iOS).
In 10 years time maybe that part of the OS will be more mature.
But alas we live in a real world where present-day solutions are
required.<br>
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<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>willem</p>
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