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Re: Cirque Keyboard

From: Doug Sutherland <>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 03:12:41 -0600

Chuck,

Thanks for sending the POSE ROM for Palm. Thanks also to Mikey 
for sending me another. I have the driver for Pocket Keys loaded,
and I have a serial cable made, but I may have the pins arranged
backwards, no luck yet with the emulator (the palm pins are not 
numbered).  

Chuck, you mentioned "the driver sends D5h to the keyboard, and
then reports no response from the keyboard". Where did you see
that? I found the port redirection and logging settings:

  Settings -> Properties -> redirection -> Serial Port
  Settings -> Logging (serial activity and serial data)

But I don't see any serial data. I get the same message about 
no keyboard, but I don't see any serial data. I see a file 
called Log_0001.txt in the pose directory, but I'm not seeing
any serial data in there.

This power saving feature on Pocket Keyboard is a PITA. Maybe 
useful for PDAs but I don't need that feature on wearable, I 
can't imagine that this keyboard draws much power, I'd rather 
power it from the serial port than from lihium coin cells 
which need replacing. In the PocketKeys app it has auto-off 
timeout settings for 1,2,3,5 or 10 minutes, or never. What we 
want is the code for "never auto off". I'd like to figure
out how to ditch the coin cell batteries altogether and get
power from the serial port or PS/2 port. The pocket keyboard
uses two 3V lithium cells. If it would work on 5V we could 
use the PS/2 port for power. 

http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/power_from_pc.html

Can you ask those Cirque people if this will run on 5V? 

  -- Doug

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