Created Date: October 05,2009

Created by: worknhard9062

Bar code scanners are compatible with Cmore. The only problem is (and it's a major problem for my application) the bar code scanner object (a text entry box) MUST be the focus or the code will not be read by the Cmore.

In other words you must select the text entry box by touching it before a bar code can be read.

Forgive me for perhaps being dumb but what does it mean to say "Bar code scanners are compatible with Cmore "? The C-More panel has several specific communications ports that are individually qualified in the manual for specific uses, summarized as follows:

1. Ethernet

- programming, PLC communications, Ethernet functions (email, ftp, etc.)

2. USB B

- programming

3. USB A

- HID devices, such as pen drives, keyboards and, yes, bar code readers

4. RS232 PLC port

- PLC communications

The original poster asked if "serial bar code readers " are compatible. The answer is yes, provided you use a BCR supporting a USB interface. Using the terminalogy "serial bar code reader " is ambiguous and may easily be interpreted as meaning a device supporting RS232/ 485, as is common as well.

Shimmy is correct as well regarding the focus. Quoted from the C-More Help file for Text Entry Objects:

"Style 2: Will require a USB input device connected to Port A of the panel. Most HID Standard USB key boards, card scanners and barcode readers may be used with this style. The Text Entry Object must be selected on the panel for data to be accepted from the device. "

Created Date: October 06,2009

Created by: OpZed

Look at the Option tabs for the Text/Numeric Entry objects. There's a fairly new feature where the PLC can control the focus of these objects.

Option Tab: Click on the red Option Tab text for configuration information. Object Focus configuration is available on the Option Tab. This selection is available for the Numeric Entry and Text Entry objects. It requires that Style 2 is selected on the General Tab. Object Focus is selected to allow the input device (Style 2) to enter data without the Numeric/Text Entry Object to be selected on the screen.

Created Date: October 05,2009

Created by: rguimond

I'm considering equipping a forklift used to load & unload trailers with a C-More that will prompt the operator to pick up a certain pallet and load it on a certain trailer. In order to do this, I want to confirm the correct pallet was picked using a barcode scanner. In addition, I will place a barcode over each door leading to a trailer to be scanned by a reader on the cage of the forklift to ensure the proper trailer was loaded. I plan on having C-More communicate with the PLC through a wireless client adapter.

Are serial barcode scanners compatible with C-More panels? If not, I'll have to mount the panel AND a PLC with serial adapter on the (electric) forklift, which I'm not excited about.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?