How to recognize Symbol scanner

E Efkan YILMAZ 3 years 7 months ago
23 1 0

Hello team, A partner of ours is developing a plugin (they call it driver) for the accounting software called "1C" ( de-facto standard in Russia) which will allow it to work with barcode scanners. They want to be it free for Symbol scanners but not for others (yesss!). They are looking for a way to distinguish between Symbols and not Symbols. They've found some low-level chatting which our scanners do with Windows keyboard driver when in KBW or USB HID mode - which they claim is unique, well at least different from Metrologic and other devices they were able to test. They're still struggling with RS232 mode as it seems there is nothing "hidden there" - it just sends the data. Questions: 1. Is there any more or less standard and more or less official way to "tie" a PC application to our scanners connected with USB, KBW or RS232? 2. What about RSM? Can it be used for this purpose and how? Do we have a toolkit for PC? The problem (one of) is that not all our scanners (at least not ls2208 which is our bestseller) support RSM. 3. We have also SSI and SNAPI (for rs232 and USB respectively) - but again not all scanners support this (same 2208 does not) Any suggestions or ideas? Maybe someone had already this kind of requests? Thanks, Valery

Please Register or Login to post a reply

1 Replies

A Andy Doorty

Hi Valery, The only way I was able to find that you can tell if it is a Symbol / Moto scanner is via USB. The USB specification calls for out usb products to report a Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID). This information can be retrieved from Windows OS. Our  Scanner VID is 05E0. If we want this information / feature to be available in SNAPI or SSI it would have to be created. You can request it via a GRIP Entry. Did not find out if there is anything we can do with the KBW. It looks like only key codes can be sent via this type of connection.   

CONTACT
Can’t find what you’re looking for?