OpenMSR is a cross-platform GUI application for the MSR605 and MSR605X. The pkg directory also has two Go libraries, libmsr and libtracks which are great if you want to develop your own applications / commands.
- Read, write (WIP), and erase on individual tracks
- BPI, BPC, and parity selection for each track
- IEC 7813 and AAMVA parsing with Luhn validation
- Hi-co / lo-co selection
Clone and cd into the repository:
git clone https://github.com/egginabucket/openmsr.git && cd openmsr
Build for your OS (requires Go)
make build
An executable should appear in a bin folder.
To run without root privileges, Linux users need to add a udev rule:
# cp 50-msr605x.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
# udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger
To use the MSR605, make sure your user has access to the serial ports
(dialout group for Debian-based, uucp for Arch).
- Writing currently has some issues. I'll fix it soon!
- The GUI looks different depending on your system theme; see andlabs/ui
- Refreshing the list of devices just adds onto it.
- Saving / opening files currently doesn't work, as I want to make it compatible with Deftun's MSRX software.