I'm not sure to understand, what kind of reader is that? They speak of RFID but then it gets a barcode reader?
ranger_danger 21 hours ago [-]
I am very interested in an RFID reader that acts as a keyboard like the author describes, but for some reason they don't specify which reader the entire article is about.
Does anyone know, or know of one that acts similarly?
tux1968 20 hours ago [-]
The Chameleon Ultra V2.0 open source project [1] can be configured to "Reader-to-HID" which should give you what you want. You can build your own, or buy one of many pre-built options [2]
The Chameleon Ultra is way overkill for a use-case like this, there are way cheaper readers that pretend to be HID devices all over the market
tux1968 6 minutes ago [-]
It's $20, and open source. Use-cases change, and it's very nice to have the flexibility and control to adapt.
_Microft 20 hours ago [-]
That should be the most common behavior. Barcode readers work the same. In the past, you even plugged barcode scanners between keyboard and PC and they injected the key codes of the detected code into that.
crote 8 hours ago [-]
The search phrase here is "keyboard wedge".
ranger_danger 20 hours ago [-]
The ones I have tried in the past, at least under Windows, only seem to have support for the PC/SC Smartcard API, so you typically need a specialized application to use them, unless it's just for logging in to Windows itself, but I'm more interested in logistical/asset tracking purposes.
tigereyeTO 16 hours ago [-]
All the ones I’ve used have configuration options that dictate how it interacts with the host. I’d bet the ones you used were just configured that way instead of being configured as an HID
stavros 14 hours ago [-]
This may be very helpful or very unhelpful, but a $4 RFID reader board and an Arduino clone will do this beautifully with a minimal amount of code and connections.
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Does anyone know, or know of one that acts similarly?
[1] https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/ChameleonUltra/wiki
[2] for example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009580619682.html