RE: [OT] Symbol 5700 barcode scanner to PC - can any help?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw an app being sold on eBay for about a tenner that takes input
from an
RS232 scanner and pastes it into the keyboard buffer as though it had been
typed in by hand...

There it is - www.ebay.co.uk item number 270382697473

Does that help?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of John Risby
> Sent: 16 July 2009 21:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Symbol 5700 barcode scanner to PC - can any
> help?
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> That is what I was beginning to worry. Bugger. I could try to connect
> it via
> a serial port (or, rather, to a USB port with a serial adaptor) but I
> guess
> I'll have to buy another cable for this damn machine. Already bought
> the
> scanner, the cable, a usb adaptor and a power supply! That'll teach me
> to
> buy such items off eBay.
>
> I don't mind spending more if I can get it to work, but even if I can
> get it
> sending data via RS232, how can I decode it and use it in an
> application?
> The app I am using it in is browser-based which is why a
keyboard-based
> system was great.
>
> Probably best just binning it and buying a hand-held scanner that I
> know
> works (we have one already that is fine).
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>
> 2009/7/16 Stephen McGarry <Selfbuild@xxxxxxx>
>
> > I have used a number of different scanners over the last 15 years
and
> I
> > have looked at the manual for the 5700.
> > I don't think this model will produce keyboard codes at all!
Models I
> have
> > used all had a section for generating
> > keyboard codes in the manual, as the cable itself does not do any
> data
> > conversion. It seems this model will only produce
> > ASCII from the various ports. So I think the cable is designed
for
> another
> > model which does generate keyboard codes.
> >
> > So you will have to use a serial port or a serial/USB adapter to
get
> the
> > data from the scanner.
> >
> > HTH
> > Stephen
> >
> > Colin Bradford wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 2009/7/16 John Risby <john@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:john%40padimax.co.uk<john%2540padimax.co.uk>
> > >>:
> > >  > The actual cable is an RS232 to PS/2 adaptor. The
RS232 end is a
> RJ45
> > >  > connection. This is the correct part for the scanner
(at least
> I'm
> > pretty
> > >  > sure it is!).
> > >  >
> > >  > Then I'm using a PS/2 to USB adaptor but I've also
tried it
> directly
> > > into an
> > >  > old PC with a PS/2 input and still nothing is being
transmitted.
> > >  >
> > >  > I think the solution lies in the scanner settings (set
by
> scanning
> > > barcodes
> > >  > from the manual) but so far I've not been able to find
the right
> > >  > combination.
> > >
> > > There's normally a "reset to factory default"
barcode in the manual
> > > that will get it to a state to scan and produce something -
are you
> > > getting any sign at all that the scanner is reading
barcodes?
> > >
> > > Colin.
> > >
> >
> >
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