We don't plan on implementing RFID but I'd be interested in helping out with drop-in 3M replacements for Koha. We use to use the magnetic strip readers and that would be an interesting addition to a selfcheck. As I mentioned before, we do have touchscreen Koha selfchecks deployed and have done some of the legwork as far as the basics: * Touchscreen * Scanner * Receipts * Reproducible - image / iso * Open source only * Works with off the shelf hardware [ tested with Epson and Star printers and Elo touchscreens ] * Works with Koha 3.10 * Helped fund some selfcheck features in koha Our documentation needs some cleanup but I think it'd be decipherable to someone familiar with Linux basics and some basic jQuery/CSS knowledge. If this would be helpful we'd more than happy to forward on our experiences with this. I'll be updating the kiosks for Koha 3.12 in the next few weeks before we upgrade. I'll be able to simplify the kiosks and tear out some hacks thanks to some new selfcheck features in 3.12. But I must say we've been pleased with the kiosks over the past 18 months or so we've had them "in the wild". Chad On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Mike D. <black23@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, do You know this articles? http://blog.rot13.org//2008/10/3m-rfid-reader-810-can-freely-speak-now.html
http://blog.rot13.org//2009/04/comet-experiment-rfid-reader-with-koha-data-i... And this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byd-NqGOZXc This guy did make some open source support for some 3M RFID reader and tested this solution with Koha. Code is here: https://github.com/dpavlin/Biblio-RFID
I think about low cost RFID solution based on open source hardware. RFID readers (and writers) are now cheap on Ebay or in China. Some of them are supported in Linux too. Maybe we can make group of people (libraries) and start some research. Anybody interested?
Mike
2013/9/25 glaws <glawson@rhcl.org>
I would certainly be interested in giving it a test run if you could post it somewhere.
I use remastersys, much like the Live Koha DVD to deploy and image selfchecks. I could make this available as a downloadable iso if anyone was interested trying it out. It would require some site specific changes of course. I have quite a bit of documentation for it, but it is missing a beginner's setup guide for making the site specific changes currently.
It is designed for touchscreens and receipt printing out of the box using Epson T88IV or T88V printers. A Star TSP would work with some post-install drivers.
We have 2 in our branches that do over 1300 and 2300 transactions each month. I have not updated them for Wheezy yet.
Chad
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:12 AM, glaws <glawson@rhcl.org <mailto:glawson@rhcl.org>> wrote:
We do also try to remember that not everybody can do a configure, make, make install, to install software. Some small libraries without tech support staff simply would be unable to use some software if it weren't on a CD or easily downloadable. For these sites I think it makes good sense to just master a Linux .iso that can be installed and "just work". If library staff have to install Linux anyway, then a
Greg ------------------------------- On 09/25/2013 02:59 PM, Chad Roseburg wrote: pre-configured
"Library Kiosk" or "Self-checkout" distro is probably simpler than creating packages, again, for those users who need to minimize
their
exposure to synaptic or apt-get.
Greg ---------------------------------------------
On 09/25/2013 10:45 AM, glaws wrote: > I'm not aware there currently exists an open source self-checkout > system, however we've long talked about it here at our library. I work > with a developer, Aaron Ogle, that is currently building a PAC system, > and when he is finished with that if we have the funds available I would > like to consider funding a self-checkout development. Having
already
> discussed it, we think it wouldn't be terribly difficult. Aaron already > has a generalized framework for similar systems (a children's > playstation and a Koha kiosk) that could be easily adapted to a checkout. > > I should note probably that all the development we support is for open > operating systems, and all the funding we've done so far generally uses > Linux Mint at the client end. The server side, where utilized, is more > generalized, but we typically use Ubuntu and OpenSuse. > > Unfortunately it seems that you need a system now, and anything we do > won't be worked on until at least mid- late-2014. This is, however, a > good discussion topic and worth continuing. > > Greg > >
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