Product Description

The Irdroid USB IrDA Kit allows you to interface your PC, Mac , Android, Raspberry Pi with equipment that communicates via IrDA SIR protocol. The Irdroid USB IrDA Kit enumerates on the host system as a serial port thus allowing you to easily interface with any control / terminal software with minimal or no programming needed. The Irdroid USB irDA adapter is an irDA adapter that supports Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, MAC OS X, Linux and Android

Features:

• – Complete solution for IrDA communication on any modern system
• – Supports with IrDA® Physical Layer Specification (version 1.3)
• – Supports Windows 7,8,10, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi
• – High quality infrared transceiver
• – Up to *2 meters IrDA SIR communication
• – Supports baud rates from 9600 – 115200 bps
• – USB-A male connector
• – Includes USB A extension cable 0.5m

Example Usage:

• – Interfacing with irDA power meters
• – Interfacing with irDA printers
• – Interfacing with irDA PDAs
• – irDA field communications
• – Data communication between two Raspberry Pi’s
• – Any other devices that communicate via irDA SIR

Package contains:

• – 1x Irdroid USB IrDA Transceiver + 1x USB A extension cable 0.5m

Drivers:

• Windows 7 & Windows 10
• Driver Installation guide for Windows 7
• Driver Installation guide for Windows 10

Documents:

• EC Declaration of Conformity

Below is a link to a blog post that explains changing the IrDA SIR Baud rate in software and hardware:

• https://irdroid.eu/set-irdroid-usb-irda-sir-baud-rate/

A GitHub gist, describing how to use the module with the Linux IrDA protocol stack:

• https://gist.github.com/Irdroid/a946e3ebd2a62fedf189fac4767b4508

 IrDA data communication demonstration on Ubuntu, Linux kernel version 4.15