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Node.js rfidgeek connector
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Writing to RFID tag #1

Closed freak4pc closed 10 years ago

freak4pc commented 10 years ago

Hey , Great code!

Two short questions

  1. Could I Use this to write info to the RFID tag ?
  2. Was this tested with any other readers other then the Univelop 500 RFID ?

Thank you very much! Shai.

bensinober commented 10 years ago

Hi Shai,

actually, I started a 'develop' branch, rewriting the code to be more generic, Unfortunately, I got distracted with other work so never got to finish it, but believe it's working partly at least.

  1. Could I Use this to write info to the RFID tag ?

the develop branch also adds code to write data to ISO15693 tags, though it's complicated to write async code to perform the sync write to a serial USB port.

  1. Was this tested with any other readers other then the Univelop 500 RFID ?

No, but I wrote it to be generic so that any reader should work, providing: 1) it communicates as a USB serial device (ttyUSBx in linux/OSX) 2) It works in the line of initialize > register write request > read response 3) supports one or more of the protocols ISO15693, ISO14443A/B, TagIT

I didn't get to stub out a configuration file in the 'develop' branch but it shouldnt be too much work. Also, some thought was put into abstracting the communication layer into a simple API, seen e.g. in the TCP Socket client: https://github.com/bensinober/node_rfidgeek/blob/develop/tcpclient.js so that the RFID reader can be controlled easily via TCP Socket or Websocket commands.

Hope I will be able to continue working on this soon.

Regards, Benjamin