[TriLUG] Recommendations on HandHeld Scanners? -update2

[Jon Carnes]

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