Serial Barcode Reader Support

YCSRobotics / GrizzlyTime

Grizzly Robotics Logging Application

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Serial Barcode Reader Support #20

Open memtech3 opened 2 years ago

memtech3 commented 2 years ago

Serial barcode scanner support would allow teams to worry a little less about the input textbox losing focus. Additionally, if you add the ability to send a custom serial command on data received (when the loading symbol shows up) and successful check-in/out, those of us with barcode scanner obsessions can tell our barcode scanners to enable/disable and make fancy beeps.

Daltz333 commented 2 years ago

I do support standard text barcode scanners. Just enable handsfreemode in the config file and itll autorefocus the textbox and skip over the confirmation popups.

memtech3 commented 2 years ago

Can I make the case for the coolness factor of controlling beeps and scanner enable?

Daltz333 commented 2 years ago

Per further research, this isn't actually trivial and will require hardware specific APIs for each platform. I'll leave this issue open but I do not plan to personally tackle it.

Each OS has a different API for it's serial interface
Some scanners expect different COM data
Some scanners require initialization before it will begin scanning

Large numbers of serial scanner support HID keyboard mode. This can be done as a workaround.