[Koha] Open source replacement for 3M self check station

Thu Sep 26 08:27:53 NZST 2013

Hi,

Sure, there are low chinese devices, but there are some cuts in budget
too... so we prefer to keep our 3M hardware some years (to keep it is
more ecological too). But of course, for next selfchecks, we won't use
proprietary software and hardware anymore.

I see this project, but the documentation is not clear for me, so if
somebody can confirm that this software works on 3M devices, I can make
more efforts to understand how it can be installed with Koha. And I
don't know if it is compliant with Koha 3.12.

Sincerely,

Daniel Berthereau

On 25/09/2013 21:50, Mike D. 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-in-browser.html
> 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 at rhcl.org>
>
>> I would certainly be interested in giving it a test run if you could
>> post it somewhere.
>>
>> Greg
>> -------------------------------
>> On 09/25/2013 02:59 PM, Chad Roseburg wrote:
>>> 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 at rhcl.org
>>> <mailto:glawson at 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 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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>>>     Network Administrator
>>>     Rolling Hills Consolidated Library
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>>>
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