This simple Rust application takes care of the communication between my Raspberry Pi 2 B+ and my Datalogic Magellan 1100i scanner - connected via USB (w/ USB COM emulator mode).
This simple app will be used to see what's the fridge content - because I'm too lazy to check it every time.
- Datalogic Magellan 1100i Scanner (or similar)
- Raspberry Pi (any) running any Linux Distro (I suggest you to use Arch Linux ARM)
- Rust (
pacman -S rust) - (A fridge?)
git clone https://github.com/denysvitali/barcode-reader
cd barcode-reader
cargo run
Add yourself to the uucp / serial / $(stat -c "%G" /dev/ttyWhatever) group. Reboot or logout, log back in and try again.
Fast but very ugly solution: run as root.