Write UID directly to computer

[MarcusParticipant]

Dear Flomies,

I while ago, I bought a very cheap and simple RFID reader. All it did was to write the UID from a RFID tag directly to the computer and pressed “enter”. It would write wherever the mouse had been clicked, it could be in for example Word or an autofocused form on a web page.

Now I bought the ACR1255U-J1 with a hope of programming it to the the same simple operation with NFC tags.

Is this as simple as I hope? Does anyone have experience with such an operation?

Best regards,
Marcus

[RichardKeymaster]

Hi Marcus, the reader behavior you describe is known as keyboard emulation and none of the readers we sell support that. This is mainly because it’s a very restrictive interface in that it only allows you to read UIDs from NFC/RFID tags. The more powerful feature of tags on the market these days require a more complex exchange often referred to as the ISO7816 interface or APDU exchange. That’s what the ACR1255U-J1 and the other readers we sell are designed for and although it can be used for simply reading UID, it involves a bit more code than just plug and play.

To help customers coming from the keyboard emulation experience we provide the Flomio SDK as a stop gap solution. It works on mobile phones and PCs for your convenience. For the PC version, you can try the Flomio SDK live from our website here: http://flomio.com/my-devices

best,
Richard

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