HP Prime wireless kit

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Quote:The creator of HP PrimeComm probably knows more than anyone outside of HP about it

That might be. At least, the fact is that PrimeComm fails to transfer variables to (and from, IIRC, at least on hardware revision A calculators, due to the "send to calculator" option having disappeared) a real calculator running firmware revision 6030: http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-36-...l#pid12957 and other reports. At the time of this writing, the latest commit on PrimeComm predates firmware revision 6030.

PrimeComm is clearly more famous than libhpcalcs libhpcalcs (Github: hplp, derived from well-established software for TI graphing calculators originating 15 years ago) is, not least because PrimeComm has a pretty UI and higher-level features such as a program editor and an image converter, while libhpcalcs remains CLI only for now, which is user-unfriendly.
However, libhpcalcs keeps mostly being able to transfer variables both ways with real calculators running firmware 6030 ( http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-36-...l#pid12997 ), which is the core functionality of a connectivity kit (in HP parlance) / linking software (in TI parlance). libhpcalcs implements the main commands exercised by the CK, save for the "switch to firmware download mode".

Technically, PrimeComm could leverage, and contribute to, the libhpcalcs code base, as libhpcalcs is written with both portability (Windows, MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD) and interoperability (everything interoperates with C) in mind
Writing a portable Qt-based GUI for libhpcalcs has been on the TODO list since the beginning, but I don't have much free time, and most of all, user and enthusiast interest in the Prime platform in general (not just in libhpcalcs itself) remains low, for a variety of reasons...