Supported boards

Check https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-downloads/software/developer-tools/scanner-sdk-for-linux.html

Known issues

MS4717: CMD_DEVICE_SWITCH_HOST_MODE does not work

Installing

It’s working on Ubuntu 18.04 with Zebra SDK 4.4, which you can download from https://www.zebra.com/de/de/support-downloads/software/developer-tools/scanner-sdk-for-linux.html You can easily install zebra_scanner with pip:

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-python-dev libpugixml-dev
sudo pip3 install pybind11
sudo pip3 install . # in zebra-scanner directory

A minimal example

import pprint
import time

from zebra_scanner import CoreScanner

pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
scanners = []
cs = CoreScanner()


@cs.on_scanner_added
def on_scanner_added(scanner):
    print("New scanner found:")
    pp.pprint(scanner.__dict__)
    scanners.append(scanner)
    scanner.pull_trigger()

    scanner.fetch_attributes()
    for id, attribute in scanner.attributes.items():
        if id<10:
            pp.pprint({
                "id": id,
                "datatype": attribute.datatype,
                "value": attribute.value,
                "permission": attribute.permission
            })

    @scanner.on_barcode
    def on_barcode(barcode):
        print("Scanned:")
        print(barcode.code, barcode.type)

@cs.on_scanner_removed
def on_scanner_removed(scanner):
    print("Scanner removed:")
    scanner.release_trigger()
    scanners.remove(scanner)
    pp.pprint(scanner.__dict__)

while True:
    time.sleep(0.1)
    # do nothing while the scanner is reading in continous mode

Running the example

~/Development/zebra-scanner/examples$ python test.py
New scanner found:
{   'DoM': '10Mar18',
    'GUID': 'AFF531D4821A3E4BB2127A380DA81FB0',
    'PID': '1900',
    'VID': '05e0',
    'firwmare': 'PAABLS00-005-R05',
    'modelnumber': 'PL-3307-B100R',
    'scannerID': '1',
    'serialnumber': '00000000K10U532B',
    'type': 'SNAPI'}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 0, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 1, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 2, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 3, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 4, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 5, 'permission': 7, 'value': False}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 6, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 7, 'permission': 7, 'value': False}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 8, 'permission': 7, 'value': True}
{   'datatype': 'F', 'id': 9, 'permission': 7, 'value': False}
Scanned:
('Hello World', '3')
Scanned:
('00140092390052832143', '15')
Scanned:
('31039999993000000072\x1d', '15')
Scanned:
('01540092393881021000017500861331', '15')
Scanned:
('00140092390052832143', '15')
^CScanner removed:
{   'DoM': '10Mar18',
    'GUID': 'AFF531D4821A3E4BB2127A380DA81FB0',
    'PID': '1900',
    'VID': '05e0',
    'firwmare': 'PAABLS00-005-R05',
    'modelnumber': 'PL-3307-B100R',
    'scannerID': '1',
    'serialnumber': '00000000K10U532B',
    'type': 'SNAPI'}