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Ohaus Ranger 3000 Scale iPhone Wireless Post Weight As Keystrokes
Connect Ohaus Ranger 3000 scale to iOS devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod-Touch using BlueSnap M6A wirelessly serial dongle. BlueSnap dongle connects to scale RS-232 port, with wireless connection to iPhone11. SerialMagic Keys app connects iPhone (iOS) to the scale, weight posted as keystrokes to any application that has keyboard focus. This example uses FileMaker Go app. Item is put on scale, press print button, weight posted via wireless connection to FileMaker app. Works for ALL apps that take keyboard input, with Serial Device Manager (SDM) libraries, connect with 3rd party apps. Get the BlueSnap
DEX Download Session Using iPod Touch Wireless BlueSnap DEX Adapter
The wireless BlueSnap DEX M6A adapter provides unmatched mobile DEX exchange sessions using iOS, Android, and more. This video uses iPod Touch device to perform wireless DEX exchange session. Also other iOS device like iPhone, iPad, and use Android phones, and tablets.
iPhone built-in RFID-NFC Read Distance Varies Based On Inlay/Tag Antenna Size
How do you know the NFC read distance of the iPhone built-in RFID-NFC reader?Will a small NFC tag give the required distance?How big do you need to have an NFC inlay-tag to get a long read distance? This video uses iPhone 11, the same results will correlate with iPhone 12, and iPhone 13, iPhone 14, iPhone 15, etc. The iPhone built-in RFID-NFC distance between the iPhone and varies based on Inlay/Tag antenna size Round and square antenna shapes are both produce the same correlation: large NFC/antenna/tag size means longer read
How To Unpair Multiple Bluetooth Devices With One Step
Suppose you have LOTS of Bluetooth devices (say 30, 70, 100+) paired to a device. How can this happen? When testing devices during production, this can easily happen. Doing tap gear icon, and tap Unpair hundreds of times, is really not a productive use of time. yACK FAST Android app provides a tool to unpair ALL Bluetooth device pairings in ONE step. Tap SELECT DEVICE, tap upper-right menu, tap “Unpair all devices”. This displays all the currently paired Bluetooth devices on this Android device, with dialog titled “Choose devices to unpair”. By
How To Pick RFID-NFC Chip Type: iPhone11 SLIX2 vs NTAG213 Tiny NFC
How do you know what RFID-NFC chip model-type to use for your NFC project? There are hundreds of models, some more popular shown below. What read & write range is needed?What material will RFID-NFC tag be applied to, or inserted in?How much data needs to be stored?What read & write speed is required? Read range is often an important parameter in choosing type of RFID-NFC chip. Video below shows the read range of NTAG213 vs SLIX2 chips in tiny rigid PCB NFC tags (4.8mm square, 1.8mm thick).This type of tag is available in
Eliminating Wires and Errors with the BlueSnap M6A
A food production facility on the east coast was on the hunt for a solution for their production line.When dealing with food products, they needed to be sure that weights were properly recorded and within reasonable limits in order to proceed. Once the software was in place, the next important step was getting the right hardware. Manual entry is cumbersome and prone to human error. When a significant portion of the day is spent recording weights, a mistake being made doesn’t just eat up time–it costs money. With, of course,
Keeping People Safe with the idChamp® NF4 Wireless Smart Card Reader for NFC/RFID and Employee Badges
Keeping People Safe with the idChamp® NF4 Wireless Smart Card Reader for NFC/RFID and Employee Badges Amidst this global epidemic, COVID-19, employees are beginning to return to their offices. Businesses are doing their best to implement safe social distancing and taking other precautionary measures to prevent the spread of infection. From maintaining appropriate physical distance to making sure work areas are staying clean, the first step to staying safe starts as soon as you step on site. The idChamp® NF4 Wireless Smart Card Reader is working on the front line to
Use NFC Sticker Tag On Metal Surface
How To Use Standard NFC Sticker Tag On Metal Surface Standard NFC tags fail to read when you put them on a metal surfaces. Here we show how you use NFC Sticker Tag On Metal Surfaces.A typical RFID-NFC tag or inlay you use, will read with any NFC reader when placed on non-metallic surfaces. You put the tag on stone, wood, glass, plastic, paper, or hold it in the air, and it works fine. Why Do RFID-NFC Tags Not Work On Metal? Here is a typical round 8mm adhesive sticker
Wireless RS-232 Scale On MacOS Post Keystrokes
Wireless RS-232 Scale With Your Current Scale You connect your RS-232 scale with BlueSnap M6A, now you have a Wireless RS-232 Scale On MacOS. First you get the optional HID wireless keyboard firmware option for the BlueSnap M6A. Next you post weight readings as keystrokes to all MacOS apps that allow typed input, without special software. Third, the BlueSnap M6A serial dongle connects wirelessly eliminating cables between your scale and Mac. Finally you transmit data up to 30 feet (10 meters) between scale and Mac giving you great portability. No
Apple Student ID NFC Reader
Apple Student ID NFC Reader – Mobile & Wireless idChamp® RS4x Apple Student ID NFC Reader posts credentials stored in Apple Wallet* and much more. Read all physical RFID Prox, iClass/Seos, and more. Read soft credentials with HID Global Mobile Access, and other supported apps. Read all these credentials/badges with idChamp RS4x up to 30 feet from your iPad or iPhone. *Requires purchase of Mobile Credential More than iPad and iPhone RS4x also connects to Android, MacOS, & Win10+. Read all types of student IDs – physical and soft –
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Starport Technologies encodes 10 million RFID tags per month, sometimes UHF reader must ignore unwanted nearby UHF tags. Prior to encoding some UHF tags we do printing. We use Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF RFID readers to quickly spot check around voided tags to insure the encoding is done to the proper tags. Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF RFID… Read more “Unwanted Nearby UHF Tags Ignored Using Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e”
Innova Zones was approached by a customer looking to track RFID i-Safe Tags to ensure compliance with safety gear requirements within their facility. Unsure if it was possible, we sent a tag to Serialio, who quickly and expertly helped us setup the idChamp® Smart Credential Readers to read iSafe tags. Thanks to Serialio, we have… Read more “Read RFID i-Safe Tags”
We use SerialMagic Keys Professional Android to connect with the HPR Lite Handheld PIT Tag Reader. SerialMagic Keys Professional is exceptionally easy to use. SerialMagic Keys Professional quickly and easily posts scan RFID tags to all apps that take keystrokes. Post many types of RFID tags: ISO 11784/11785 compliant FDX-B and HDX, FDX-B Fastag, FDX-B… Read more “HPR Lite Handheld PIT Tag Reader – Android”
Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid on iPad & iPhone is an unmatched data collection solution. Form-A-Feed uses this solution successfully for years. Serialio support has been unmatched by any supplier. The Support Team is super responsive, and the Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid solution always works. Mobile Grid is so reliable, when our Microsoft based solution fails, Serialio is… Read more “Unmatched Data Collection Solution – Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid”
The Toshiba Team spent months searching for the best electronic emergency headcount software for our large facilities. Toshiba needed emergency mustering Roll Call ensuring employees, visitors, and contractors are all safe and accounted for during an Emergency. Serialio was one of many companies we reached out to, and we’re so thankful we did! The Cloud-In-Hand… Read more “Emergency Headcount Software 1-Million-Square-Foot”
Our search for mobile order for sales reps and trade shows solution ended when we found Cloud-In-Hand® Mobile Order. Mobile Order is a terrific application replacing our last ordering solution. We deployed to our outside sales staff and use it for our trade shows on iPads & iPhones. We were up and running in record… Read more “Mobile Order For Sales Reps and Trade Shows”
In 2019, we needed a reliable and cost-effective method of enabling RFID scans on a tablet for a custom RFID time clock application on Windows Surface Pro we developed. We were fortunate enough to find SerialMagic Professional and the idChamp® RFID Smart Card Badge Reader. Serialio assisted us with the software and hardware needed to… Read more “Enable RFID Scans On Windows Surface Pro For Time Clock Application”
University of Wyoming Vending Services has used the BlueSnap M6A Dex for vending machine service for vending machine DEX service for over two years. VendSys initially recommended we purchase the BlueSnap DEX Kit and we’re very happy we did. UW Vending has full-time, employees managing students who are route drivers. I can confidently say that… Read more “Vending Machine DEX Service With iPhone-Android-BlueSnap”
We take orders with iScanBrowser iOS with the PX20 wireless mobile 2D+1D barcode scanner. Our users quickly and reliably make orders are in our showroom with iScanBrowser on iPad Air devices. We like the speed and stability of the PX20 iScanBrowser in building orders fast and accurate. We have worked with Serialio.com for many years… Read more “iScanBrowser iOS Super-Fast & Reliable Order Taking”
With the ability to import laser measurements into any iOS app, SerialMagic Keys iOS has increased my workflow speed and accuracy tremendously. Thank you serialio.com for making SerialMagic Keys work with BOSCH Laser Measure on iOS. SerialMagic Keys iOS has powerful features like unit conversions and formatting that posts the readings exactly as we want… Read more “BOSCH Laser Measure on iOS”