Communication between Labview and a bar code reader sotfware

[Sana1994]

Hi !

I have to make a project on Labview involving reading 2D bar codes (Datamatrix) with a bar code reader Matrix 210N. A software is given with this bar code reader called dl.code, to test and configurate it. I want to know if it's possible de create a communication between Labview and this dl.code software. I want to have all the informations that i need from this software on Labview so that i can work on my Datamatrix (processing datamatrix and saving informations in an Excel file)

Thank you for your help 🙂 🙂

[wiebe@CARYA]

Possible, sure. But it makes your life a hole lot easier if the manufacturer has a protocol manual. It's not in the reference manual, so the philosophy seems to be "use our brilliant software or bust". I could be wrong, they don't allow downloads without registering (*sigh*).

You could contact them. They might share the protocol. Once you have it, it's a matter of developing a driver.

If they are not willing to share (it happens), the only option is hacking.