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Bluetooth barcode scanner

N2GN2

Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:09:14 pm

Anyone setup a bluetooth barcode scanner to work as an input device in Zorin 9? My USB bluetooth adapter seems to be working fine. I can search and apparently connect to the scanner which it labels as a computer but the scanner never comes back out of discovery mode. When I scan a barcode nothing happens. Thank you!

Swarfendor437

Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:25:57 am

Please take a look at these two threads from Ubuntu forums - albeit that it relates to 10.04:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1688185

and the solution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1689031

Obviously you will need to change the name if your device is not Cypress. No guarantees - all I could find.

N2GN2

Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:13:38 pm

When using Blueman Device Manager 1.23 I was able to connect to the bluetooth scanner which took it out of discovery mode automatically. Still, nothing happens when I scan a barcode.

Swarfendor437

Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:18:22 pm

Did you look at those threads?

N2GN2

Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:07:31 pm

I did, but it seems the thread relates to a USB barcode reader.