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iScanBrowser Web Form Rules (iOS)

iScanBrowser Web Form Rules (iOS) iScanBrowser Web Form Rules on iPad/iPhone automate data posting from anywhere. Post RFID (UHF, and NFC) , Barcodes, Scales, Sensors, Calipers, iOS Built-in NFC, to any field on any webpage. No tapping to get focus is required. Web Form Rules (WFR) Summary: First, Web Form Rules are divided into two categories; Active Page Rules and New Page Rules. Active Page Rules send data from the scanner to the currently loaded web page. New Page Rules load a new URL and set the value of the

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Sending Wireless Bluetooth Data Using 3rd Party Keyboard SerialMagic Keys

How can iOS keyboard be used to send user specified data to a wirelessly connected device?  SerialMagic Keys iOS provides a ‘Command Key’ option to send user defined data to trigger some event on the device connected to BlueSnap M6A DB9 connector serial port e.g. to trigger scale to send weight, RFID reader to read tag, sensor to take measurement, barcode scanner to read barcode, etc.   Open SerialMagic Keys app on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, then tap on “Command Key” Choose the wireless device that SerialMagic Keys will send

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Smartphone Wallet Attendance Check-in

Why Smartphone Wallet Attendance Check-in You do smartphone wallet attendance check-in with secure credential stored in smartphone’s wallet. Your credential is stored in your Apple Wallet when you have an iPhone. You check-in to your meeting or event using your iPhone or Apple Watch. Your unique credential is securely stored in the smartphone wallet then you don’t carry your physical employee badge to check-in. Check-in for your meeting, class, and membership, use for tool and equipment check-out, everything your badge can do, your phone can do with soft credential stored

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Why Use Bluetooth BLE vs HID vs SPP vs MFi?

Bluetooth Pairing Modes Bluetooth LE (BLE), SPP, HID are all Bluetooth profiles (sometimes called “pairing modes”). Why use Bluetooth BLE? On iOS there is MFi mode which is SPP with Apple restrictions, so only approved devices can connect to iOS devices. The main usability difference between the Bluetooth BLE & HID/SPP/MFi, is the pairing process. With Bluetooth HID you must pair with the wireless device via host operating system Bluetooth settings app. With BLE, you can directly and immediately connect from the desired app – and MUCH faster. You can use

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What are control characters?

Control characters are characters that do not representable a printable character but instead serves to initiate a specific action. There are various types of control characters, including printing control characters, data structuring control characters, and transmission control characters—many of which are often used in the prefix or suffix configurations of barcode and RFID scanners. Some applications, such as SerialMagic Gears allow you to append a control character to scan data at the software level.  The table below provides information regarding some of the more common ASCII control characters. Control Character Name Explanation SOH

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What is Java SerialPort?

SerialPort is the world’s first, and still foremost Java product for serial ports. SerialPort provides highly flexible control of serial ports from your Java application. SerialPort is a high-performance class that also provides low-level serial port control. If your device plugs into a serial port—on or off the Internet—it is almost certain that you can use SerialPort to communicate with it. SerialPort is visionary, shipping over a full year before Sun Microsystems announced the first beta of javax.comm.SerialPort. The SerialPort package also provides javax.comm.SerialPort on more platforms than any company

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Which platforms does Java SerialPort support?

SerialPort works with Java 1.x (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8) applications and trusted applets. Java 1.0.2 is supported on Windows. If you need support for a platform we don’t currently support, we may be able to provide a custom port for you at a reasonable cost. SerialPort should work with any Java 1.x JNI compliant Java VM on the supported platforms listed below. See Java SerialPort change log. Below is a partial list of supported platforms: Windows 10 (64-bit and 32-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit and 32-bit) Windows

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Is SerialPort 100% Java?

It is unfortunate, but there seems to be much confusion about what 100% Pure Java means. One of the requirements for 100% Pure is that classes do not contain native methods. Since native methods are required to implement the Java Virtual Machine (VM), this in effect means that Java itself is not 100% pure. Only applications can be 100% pure Java. Classes for doing things like communicating with serial ports cannot be 100% pure; however, this does not mean that applications that use these classes cannot be 100% pure. Many

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Who is using Java SerialPort?

To provide a few examples of our many customers: Sun, Microsoft, Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, MCI, Bank of Montreal, Texas Instruments, Xerox, IBM, Fluke, AT&T, Pick ‘n Pay, Lexmark, Nokia, Motorola, NCR, Ericsson, Cisco, StockPower, SGS Thompson, Mitel, Sony, Borland, Lucent, 3M, Northrop, Tandem, Disney, Rockwell, Compaq-DEC, Siemens, Tektronix, Dupont, NEC, Swedbank, FedEx, Oracle, Mondex, General Dynamics, Equinox, Powerware-Invensys, Seleriti, MobileCom AG, MIT, Lockheed Martin, Cabletron, TRW, Compuware, Fleming, Mettler Toledo, Impulse Radio, Storage Technology, Dupont, Carnegie Mellon, Argonne National Labs, Wavtrace, Alcatel, Dragon Systems, Geoworks, Seiko Epson, Silicon Graphics, Sandia National

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What are the terms and conditions for Java SerialPort licensing?

The term “Product” pertains to any of the following products SerialPort, X/YModem, ZModem, JKermit, and any and all files included with the product, or received as an update to the product. The term “User” pertains to the purchaser of the product, be it an individual or a company. The Term “Application” pertains to the User’s product be it an Application or Applet. 1. The Product source code or any part thereof, may not be distributed or resold. 2. With exception to section 9, the Product class files may be distributed without royalties with a Java Application that the

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