[Koha-devel] RFID reader in browser with data from Koha

[MJ Ray]

Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin at rot13.org> wrote:
> Back in October, I worked a bit on RFID reader protocol as described in
> http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2008-October/008395.html
>
> Now, I have something to show:
> http://blog.rot13.org/2009/04/comet_experiment_rfid_reader_with_koha_data_in_browser.html
>
> In the end, it will probably be Koha add-on to support user cards and
> items checkout/checkin, but I'm wondering if this is interest in
> occasional e-mail from me about status of this on koha-devel since I didn't
> really got any response last time.

I don't remember seeing the last post about it.  My firm (TTLLP
software.coop) already has a beta-quality implementation with SSL
connections to DLP-RFID1 USB serial devices (connected to various
Linux and Apple staff machines), supporting items checkout/checkin and
tag programming (Danish model).  Our libraries are still using
barcodes for user cards because that's what their self-issues want.

It's listed as an enhancement at
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2244

The code is called "RFIDEnabled", is mostly in our git tree at
http://serene.ttllp.co.uk/~mjr/koha.git/ but underdocumented and I'd
be interested in making it and your RFID reader work in the same
framework.  Would you?  Could you publish your git tree?

Thanks,
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