<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Willem,<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5. Dec 2020, at 07:36, Willem Ferguson <<a href="mailto:willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za" class="">willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">What is the minimum specs required for the Pi? There are many Pi models available these days. One of the issues I am concerned with is the availability of IrDA dive downoads which is slowly disappearing from most OSs. With a downloader one could maintain an IrDA stack, although it might have an effect on the kernel version used.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">that’s an excellent point. Regarding specs I have to answer I don’t know, but the requirements should be pretty minimal. I have used, as my starting point, the the current Raspian which is based on Debian Buster. What is the status of IRDA support there? It seems it is not out of the box. With Google I found</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=235256" class="">https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=235256</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but I don’t understand if that helps. Do you understand what the situation is?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course, you could try to use older versions but that might have security implications as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class="">Robert</div></body></html>