DMP Cardscanner

Program for reading numbers from proximity cards and storing or typing them

Features

• Written in Python v3
• Can export card list in format readable by Remote Link or System Link (In Progress)
• Can type the card number as if it's been typed into the keyboard.

TODO

• Port to Windows (and maybe MacOS)
• Create installable packages

Requirements

• Ubuntu Linux
• RFIDeas USB Prox Card Scanner from DMP

Required Ubuntu Packages Installed (other than whats already installed by default)

• python3-serial
• python3-usb
• python3-tk
• python3-pip (This is needed to install the pyautogui package)

Installing pyautogui

The pyautogui module is not available as an Ubuntu package, and must be installed via pip. These instructions will install the module globally, so any user can use it.

Run the following commands:

sudo su
cd ~
umask 022
pip3 install pyautogui

Notes

Don't forget to make sure you have permissions to the USB serial device driver. On Ubuntu this can be done by adding your user to the dialout group by running sudo adduser [USERNAME] dialout and logging out/in.