We too are using the Symbol Scanners (LS-2208 USB version) and they work great with the Sun Type 7 keyboard. I believe some other members of the group mentioned that the Metrologic USB scanners worked great too. the only issue is with the keyboard / country code / num lock.
That is, if I use another keyboard besides the Sun brand with the LS-2208 it turns the Num Lock off on each scan. While I bet there is a way to program the scanner not to do this (sending the wrong country code?) it is not an issue with the Sun Type 7 keyboards (and that is all I use). Good luck! Mike SUM/IT Systems Point of Sale and Inventory Control using Sunray's -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hiya, I am using Symbol USB barcode scanners here with SunRays. They are USB scanners and look like keyboards, so the barcode you scan just gets inputted the same as if it were being typed in from a keyboard. You can configure the barcode scanner to input certain keystrokes before/after it sends the actual barcode so you could use say ^K to grab an applications attention, have the scanner send the barcode and then have the scanner send ENTER. This is exactly what we do here, works nicely. - -- Leigh Jim Klimov wrote:
Hello SunRay-Users, Since the scanners matter was recently active, I have a question here too :) We have seen in the docs that among different devices Sun Rays can support USB barcode scanners. In short, how far does this support go? :) Is it limited to certain devices or their usage, or does it stream everything to the application level? I'll try to describe our situation concerning this problem: We co-develop a custom application which currently works only under MS Windows, which is sort of an ERP/CRM/docflow app. It uses barcodes to identify all printed documents, and our programmers have developed a utility (for Windows) which can translate signals from the barcode scanner to Windows system messages. These in turn are captured by the GUI program and trigger some activity, i.e. open a dialog to edit the electronic version of the document. This was developed using an USB CipherLab-1000 scanner, which under Windows gets a COM port number and the developed utility accesses this COM port to wait for input from the scanner. Now, we discussed deploying this whole application in a customer's new environment which can be filled with Sun Rays instead of WinPCs as desktop workplaces - if we get the scanners working in general and through uttsc in particular. So far this has not become an experimental project (i.e. I don't yet know whether this scanner does or does not work with a Sun Ray), but perhaps the list members know if it works and what caveats to expect and how to work around them? In particular, does the Sun Ray appliance and SRS support USB-serial converters (as one seems to be built in this scanner)?
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