I have a barcode scanner connected to a BeagleBone. The scanner acts similarly to a keyboard, in that, the barcodes it scans are output as keypresses. My goal is to write a bash script (or ruby or python app) that starts up with the OS, reads data from this USB keyboard device, does some minimal parsing of the output, and POSTs this data to a webserver (curl or net/http or urllib2).
OS info: $ lsb_release -irc Distributor ID: Debian Release: 8.3 Codename: jessie I can read the output of the barcode scanner a couple of different ways. Using cat: $ cat /dev/input/event1 | hexdump Using evtest: $ apt-get update $ apt-get install evtest $ evtest /dev/input/event1 The output of both of these processes seems very low-level. I wonder if I'm even approaching this the right way. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
