Open RiverMersey opened 4 years ago
MatthewCroughan
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4 years ago How did you generate that qr code? It looks brilliant and I'd like to use this format for #1347 and for a stamp people can ship out on their products, should they choose to do stamp their outgoing orders as I will.
RiverMersey
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4 years ago Hi, there are a number of websites that can generate free and royalty free static QR codes. [From what I can understand, dynamic QR codes can trigger usages services that in turn require the owner of the code to pay maintenance fees.]
While it was easy to use, I happened to choose https://www.qr-code-generator.com to generate this DoES example code. Yes, it works well but I'm discovering that the service then spams the email account used to register!☹️
As a result I'd suggest perhaps using a disposable email address when using one of these services in creating any new QR codes!
QR codes can be used to encode text into the code pattern. For this example:
1: I used the https://plus.codes/map/ website to find the Google recognised plus code reference for the front door of DoES [use the 3 horizontal lines icon to select the satellite version of the map]
2: copied the plus code URL of the location, then pasted it into the QR code website along with "borrowing" the DoES logo
3: generated the final QR code.
Of course, I'd be more than happy for DoES to choose to use this example QR code in any ways seen to be useful. Now that we have it, it works entirely independently of both the plus code and QR code websites - only "costing" me the nuisance value of the almost hourly spam emails!
As an idea, the same process could be applied to make QR codes for the WiFi passwords, room names, machine names, etc.!
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MatthewCroughan
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4 years ago That's quite alright, I think I can make something that generates these with a basic command line utility. There's qrencode which generates the qr image, I will take a look at generating the text underneath. Additionally, maybe it could use https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/ these icons if the user specifies so.
so it could be like this:
qrencode "link.to.website" | script.sh where the script is the generator of the subtitle. The script would also embed the doesliverpool logo in the center of the qrcode.
RiverMersey
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4 years ago Maybe it's a bit late, I've just found this possible stand-alone option that might be able to embed a DoES logo into QR codes: https://github.com/kozakdenys/qr-code-styling/packages/28546 ?
MatthewCroughan
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4 years ago Awesome find, that will do nicely.. @RiverMersey
MatthewCroughan
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4 years ago I've made this as part of a video I'm making to promote DoES with @ajlennon
You might want to use this for promos @jackie1050
MatthewCroughan
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4 years ago @DoESsean Has suggested I change the asset to say "Second Saturday of the Month" rather than "Every Second Saturday of the Month". That change has been reflected by editing the previous comment.
I have now also included the PSD file I made and therefore template that others can use.
You will need the Transport font installed on your system to use it.
RiverMersey
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4 years ago Hi @MatthewCroughan ,
Now I have a CentOS - based pc used as an email server, I am wondering how possible it would be to also add the https://github.com/kozakdenys/qr-code-styling/packages/28546 service to it?
Server is set-up as a "NethServer" and I've somewhat niave in how I migh go about installing this QR code service onto it.
Assuming that you got it working and that you continue to use it, could you post some advice on how to install it, please?
Many thanks for your time
@RiverMersey
MatthewCroughan
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4 years ago @RiverMersey I never ended up setting it up in any way. It looks like a library though, which means that it will generate qr codes based on stuff you input, which means you need to write code to take your input (www.example.com) and put it into functions in this library. This is just the code to generate qr codes, which does not include a GUI, web interface, etc. I would not be surprised if pluscodes have simply wrote the kind of web interface I just discussed, for a library just like this one, then charged for it.
I can help out sometime. Are you in the DoES Liverpool Slack?
FYI:
The main pedestrian front door to the building is located: https://plus.codes/9C5VC26H+7W3
(or even just paste "9C5VC26H+7W3" into a Google search. Using this "standard" pluscode is the most versatile and preferal format. Having that code embedded into a QR code also works well with Google Lens. When Google recognises either the pluscode website address, the raw pluscode, or the pluscode as QR code, it brings up a map and/or directions - exactly to that front door.
As a test, I posted a hand-written postcard from a Coleraine post-box to an address in USA only address with a pluscode - and it was successfully delivered!