[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11858] RFID for circulation

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.koha-community.org]

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11858

--- Comment #8 from Viktor Sarge <viktor.sarge at regionhalland.se> ---
> We are looking to go with RFID at Washoe County. To have to check in and out
> one item at a time is not going to go over well. What can we do to get this
> moving?

I´d say that even without the feature for RFID discussed in this thread there
are two quite good options: 

* The new batch checkout feature. This one lets you send all the barcodes at
once. It´s pushed to master and I hope that means it will show up in 3.22
that´s released in november. 

* Plack. It's not fully tested for staff use yet but we use it in production
with quite good results (only have to restart every night and stay off the
parts with known bugs - which we don't use anyway). Let med explain: The
library I work tightly together with uses RFID in the existing circulation
without adaptations. The RFID scanners just send the barcodes one at a time and
rely on the fact that the barcode box has focus. The RFID scanner can then just
pretend to be a keyboard. The problem has been page load times. Before with a
load time of generally in the 1,5 - 2,5 span with some transactions taking
perhaps 3,5-4 seconds we had to set the RFID scanners to wait up to 5 seconds
between every barcode. Now with Plack they have been able to set the delay to 1
second. 

Hence: 
- 10 books before = 5*10 seconds = 50 seconds. 
- 10 books now = 1 * 10 seconds = 10 seconds. 

Much better. We will anyhow have a look at batch checkout which seems even
better. In short a proper RFID feature would be welcome but we don't really
feel any need to work towards this development now. It's not perfect but it
works well enough.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are watching all bug changes.