oaklabs/app-scanner repository overview

⁠app-scanner

An example app that can be used to log keyboard events sent via Honeywell scanner to an OakOS unit

⁠Running locally

Make sure that you are running the right version of Node locally. You will find the required version in the .nvmrc file If you are not running the same version (node -v) then you will need to run

nvm install $(cat .nvmrc)
npm run rebuild

⁠Now you can run locally

npm run dev

⁠Running in a docker container

xhost +
docker-compose up --build

⁠Shutting down the docker container

docker-compose down

⁠Example Installation

{
  "services": [
    {
      "image": "index.docker.io/oaklabs/app-scanner:latest",
      "environment": {
        "TZ": "America/Los_Angeles"
      }
    }
  ]
}

This snippet results can be seen in the application logs on the OakOS Dashboard

⁠Scanner Used in this POC

In this POC I used a Honeywell 3320g Hand scanner. The documentation for this scanner can be found here⁠

While developing this POC I first configured the scanner by scanning the USB Keyboard (PC) barcode from page 9 of the above PDF document.