Getting an infrared device working?

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#1

Hello,

I am have installed Polar’s training software ProTrainer 5 with Wine on my OpenSUSE 12.3 box. The software works but I can’t download data from heart rate monitor via the infrared device.

In a terminal I get

> lsmod | grep irda
irda 133213 3 ircomm_tty,ircomm,mcs7780
crc_ccitt 12708 2 mcs7780,irda
>

And in YaST I have limited the baud rate to 9600 in IrDA Configuration because that’s how it’s done in the instruction about how to get ProTrainer 5 with working IrDA on Ubuntu 11.04 with wine.

So how do I get the infrared device working on a OpenSUSE box?

Thanks,

Chris

#2

it looks like you have configured it already.
Just connect the adapter and start the monitor using wine and check whether you are able to download the stats

#3

Well, I can start up ProTrainer but it doesn’t download the data from the heart rate monitor. And the infrared device doesn’t blink with red light when trying (as i does on a windows machine).

#4

Found the solution here under the headline Problems with the IrDA?

It’s just

sudo irattach irda0 -s

And then ProTrainer will download the exercise data from the heart rate monitor.
That’s it :slight_smile: