On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Jos Vos jos@xos.nl wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 04:02:50PM -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I'm about to go googling, but thought I'd ask here if anyone's using a barcode scanner with CentOS, and if so, a) what scanner are you using, and b) what, if any, software are you using to record what it scans?
Most USB barcode scanners can operate in so called keyboard wedge mode (either implicitly or explicitly via some physical switch). In that case, you'll just see the scanned codes as keyboard input.
The USB barcode scanners I've used were detected as simple HID devices (on Debian and Fedora). Nothing but plug-and-play.
And yes, it acts just like keyboard input.
I don't have the model numbers handy, but I do believe one was a Symbol-brand scanner (colors in photos look about right).