Yannick Tivisse
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Set up your hardware
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Getting started with barcode scanning in Odoo is fairly easy. Yet, a
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good user experience relies on an appropriate hardware setup. This guide
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will help you through the task of choosing and configuring the barcode
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scanner.
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Find the barcode scanner that suits your needs
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The 3 recommended type of barcode scanners to work with the Odoo
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**Inventory** and **Barcode Scanning** apps are the **USB scanner**, **the bluetooth
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scanner** and the **mobile computer scanner**.
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.. image:: media/hardware02.png
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:align: center
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- If you scan products at a computer location, the **USB scanner** is the
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way to go. Simply plug it in the computer to start scanning. Just
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make sure when you buy it that the scanner is compatible with
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your keyboard layout or can be configured to be so.
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- The **bluetooth scanner** can be paired with a smartphone or a tablet and
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is a good choice if you want to be mobile but don’t need a big
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investment. An approach is to log in Odoo on you smartphone, pair
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the bluetooth scanner with the smartphone and work in the
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warehouse with always the possibility to check your smartphone
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from time to time and use the software ‘manually’.
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- For heavy use, the **mobile computer scanner** is the handiest solution.
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It consists in a small computer with a built-in barcode scanner.
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This one can turn out to be a very productive solution, however
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you need to make sure that is is capable of running Odoo smoothy.
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The most recent models using Android + Google Chrome or Windows +
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Internet Explorer Mobile should do the job. However, due to the
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variety of models and configurations on the market, it is
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essential to test it first.
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Configure your barcode scanner
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Keyboard layout
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.. image:: media/hardware01.png
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:align: center
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An USB barcode scanner needs to be configured to use the same keyboard
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layout as your operating system. Otherwise, your scanner won't translate
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characters correctly (replacing a 'A' with a 'Q' for example). Most
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scanners are configured by scanning the appropriate barcode in the user
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manual.
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Automatic carriage return
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By default, Odoo has a 50 milliseconds delay between each successive
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scan (it helps avoid accidental double scanning). If you want to
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suppress this delay, you can configure your scanner to insert a carriage
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return at the end of each barcode. This is usually the default
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configuration and can be explicitly configured by scanning a specific
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barcode in the user manual ('CR suffix ON', 'Apply Enter for suffix',
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etc.).
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