Reading weight from a scale and input into the browser

[Pranay Pandey-2]

Hello Devs,

Has anybody used OOTB ShipmentScaleApplet for reading weight from a  
scale into the browser? I tried but couldn't get success as no support  
for USB input. Here my main question is around reading input from a  
USB and also from serial port. As there are scales which works with  
USB. We will need to enhance the implementation to support both. Any  
pointer will be greatly appreciated. After some search around reading  
input from USB I got this http://javax-usb.org/  Share your thoughts  
on this. I think the support for reading weight from scale needs  
enhancement if its not there as this can be a real time requirement  
from many of the current and future customers using fulfillment  
process  in OFBiz.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
--
Pranay Pandey

[Adrian Crum-2]

http://www.rxtx.org

-Adrian


--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Pranay Pandey <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Pranay Pandey <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Reading weight from a scale and input into the browser
> To: [hidden email]
> Cc: "Pranay Pandey" <[hidden email]>
> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 6:04 AM
> Hello Devs,
>
> Has anybody used OOTB ShipmentScaleApplet for reading
> weight from a scale into the browser? I tried but couldn't
> get success as no support for USB input. Here my main
> question is around reading input from a USB and also from
> serial port. As there are scales which works with USB. We
> will need to enhance the implementation to support both. Any
> pointer will be greatly appreciated. After some search
> around reading input from USB I got this http://javax-usb.org/  Share your thoughts on
> this. I think the support for reading weight from scale
> needs enhancement if its not there as this can be a real
> time requirement from many of the current and future
> customers using fulfillment process  in OFBiz.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> --
> Pranay Pandey
>
>

[J. Eckard-2]

Another option to consider is using a software wedge (such as http://www.labtronics.com/DI/RS232_Software.htm)
.

On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:

> http://www.rxtx.org
>
> -Adrian
>
>
> --- On Mon, 8/2/10, Pranay Pandey <[hidden email]>  
> wrote:
>
>> From: Pranay Pandey <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: Reading weight from a scale and input into the browser
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Cc: "Pranay Pandey" <[hidden email]>
>> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 6:04 AM
>> Hello Devs,
>>
>> Has anybody used OOTB ShipmentScaleApplet for reading
>> weight from a scale into the browser? I tried but couldn't
>> get success as no support for USB input. Here my main
>> question is around reading input from a USB and also from
>> serial port. As there are scales which works with USB. We
>> will need to enhance the implementation to support both. Any
>> pointer will be greatly appreciated. After some search
>> around reading input from USB I got this http://javax-usb.org/   
>> Share your thoughts on
>> this. I think the support for reading weight from scale
>> needs enhancement if its not there as this can be a real
>> time requirement from many of the current and future
>> customers using fulfillment process  in OFBiz.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Pranay Pandey
>>
>>
>
>
>

[BJ Freeman]

i went with bluetooth and networkas well. you can get cheap bluetooth
USB dongles.
there is a USB.jar in this jira
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1015
it gives you some instructions you can work from.

Pranay Pandey sent the following on 8/2/2010 6:04 AM:

> Hello Devs,
>
> Has anybody used OOTB ShipmentScaleApplet for reading weight from a
> scale into the browser? I tried but couldn't get success as no support
> for USB input. Here my main question is around reading input from a USB
> and also from serial port. As there are scales which works with USB. We
> will need to enhance the implementation to support both. Any pointer
> will be greatly appreciated. After some search around reading input from
> USB I got this http://javax-usb.org/ Share your thoughts on this. I
> think the support for reading weight from scale needs enhancement if its
> not there as this can be a real time requirement from many of the
> current and future customers using fulfillment process in OFBiz.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> --
> Pranay Pandey
>
>