USB keyboards and mice are hot swappable. When we need to leave PCs in public area we log them in, then take away the mouse and keyboard, plugging them back in at the end of the day when its time to log off the PC. J On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
Hi!
2011/3/9 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com>:
Is anyone out there using the Koha OPAC as a self-checkout station? I ask because I know this can be done with Evergreen (King County Library System is doing it) and it makes a self-check station cost $300 instead of $2000. All they did was tweak the OPAC a bit and put a scanner (or RFID reader) on a low end PC and bingo...self check. Has anyone tried that?
Have you seen Koha's "very basic self checkout module"? http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x7980
You can see a demo of it here: http://head.bibkat.no/cgi-bin/koha/sco/sco-main.pl Login as username demo, password demo.
Since all the checkout requires is the card number of a user, it seems awfully easy to tamper with the accounts of other users than your own with this system...
Thats why you don't have a keyboard attached. Just a barcode scanner, then it's exactly the same as any other selfcheck machine.
The danger is in letting people type cardnumbers in, (if you opened a self check machine and connected a keyboard, same thing ;)) So I would put the pc in a locked cabinet so people can not tamper with it (like plugging in a keyboard)
Chris
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