IrCOMM is a protocol within the broader IrDA (Infrared Data Association) standard that emulates serial and parallel ports over an infrared link. It allows existing applications, particularly those using serial or parallel communication, to work with IrDA devices without modification. IrCOMM achieves this by providing four different service types to emulate the behavior of these wired connections.
By default in Windows, the irCOMM service is occupied by a service that handles "image transfers from camera devices". In order to use irCOMM with your application you need to do the following:
- Go to Control Panel and click on the Infrared icon. This will open a irDA configuration menu, where you can select, enable or disable features , handled by Windows irDA communications stack.
- Make sure the image transfer is disabled. Wireless image transfer uses the IrCOMM-Service, the service won't work unless de-activated. When the service is required by an application, the Infrared-COM-Port can't be open. In other words: no application which uses the port should be running.
- If not needed, disable also file transfer
