IrDA Serial Overview

Provides emulation of serial port communications over infrared. Its main use is to make infrared available to legacy applications designed to use serial ports.

The Symbian OS Serial Comms server defines a generic interface for all serial type communication services, and defines a plug-in architecture for implementing particular providers. IrDA Serial (module name IrCOMM) is such a plug-in. Clients access its services through the generic Serial Communications Server Client-Side API. The plug-in provides a layer over the IrDA Sockets API.

The API does not define new types, but is used through the Serial Comms server interface RCommServ and the serial port interface RComm. If the remote device has a IrDA IrCOMM service, connection is made to this, or to IrLPT if the remote device is an infrared printer.

Serial Communications Server Client Side Overview