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Fabi019 / hid-barcode-scanner

Android app for scanning barcodes and sending them to a PC by emulating a bluetooth keyboard.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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connect device through wifi #128

Open indrastorms opened 11 months ago

indrastorms commented 11 months ago

Please add support to connect device with wifi. Yes, maybe it need companion server app for desktop. But it will fix the unreliable bluetooth network connection issue and not all desktop has bluetooth network so it will help.

Fabi019 commented 11 months ago

Hi, thank you for the request. I know that a connection over wifi would probably be more stable. There are however already many other apps that provide some sort of barcode scanning over wifi. The main concept behind this application is instead, that you don't need any additional software installed and running on your target device (other than a bluetooth USB stick maybe). Additionally implementing a wifi feature alongside bluetooth, would require large amounts of changes and adjustments to be made. Because of that, I wouldn't implement that feature within this app, but rather create a seperate one which specializes on that.

indrastorms commented 11 months ago

Others are not free.

Fabi019 commented 11 months ago

Yea that could be true. When I have more time, I will create a seperate app for wifi instead of bluetooth communication.