On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:10, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, jonc wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:22, jonc wrote: > >> Hello LUGites, > >> > >> I'm looking to install an inventory process in my business to handle all > >> the phones and routers that fly in and out of here. Fortunately most of > >> these things have nice bar-codes on them with their serial numbers (and > >> MAC addresses), so I figure a bar-code reader will help me out. > >> > >> Anyone using anything particularly nice? Hopefully integrated with > >> Linux. Hopefully handheld. > >> > >> Jon > > > > Andrew Perrin sent me a Symbol Hotshot. Thanks Andy! > > No sweat :) > > > > > It's a small handheld scanner that plugs into the keyboard cable - and > > then into the keyboard connector. As such, it is OS agnostic and works > > wonderfully with Linux. I've been scanning in all sorts of things :-) > > > > The only thing it is missing is a button on the scanner handle that > > imitates the Enter key (or the Tab key). Other than that, I'm quit happy > > with the little thing and wondering how I ever lived without it! > > > > They're very cool, aren't they? I use them a lot for data management on > surveys. I don't remember about that particular scanner, but usually you > can go to the website and download a programming sheet, which consists of > a series of barcodes you scan. You can use this, for example, to tell it > to send an "enter" after each scanned barcode. Check the symbol website to > see if that's possible. > > ap
Thanks again Andy! I downloaded the manual from Symbol last night and zipped in 6 bar codes: Add <Suffix 1> 7 0 1 3 Use <data><suffix 1> 7013 happens to be my keyboard code for the Enter key. Now when I zap some data, the reader automagically presses the Enter key after dumping out the data. Love it! Sorry for the off-topic post, but these things are wicked cool :-) (and I am using it with my Linux workstation to do inventory) Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
