This project provides a script which can be used to connect to a Chafon RFID reader via TCP/IP or serial and upload the times recorded to a Google Sheet.
To install the package into your own project, use pip
pip install wabson.chafon-rfid
Optionally, install pyserial (for serial communication) and Google client (for writing results to a spreadsheet) libs
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client oauth2client pyserial
Follow the steps in the Google Sheets API Python Quickstart, to allow times to be added to a spreadsheet (optional)
Examples of how to to use the provided modules are provided in the examples directory.
To keep attempting to read tags continuously until Ctrl-C is pressed, run
continuous-read.py providing the IP of the reader and optionally the ID of the
Google Sheet
PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:$(pwd)/chafon-rfid" \
python examples/continuous-read.py 192.168.1.190 [spreadsheet_id]
A second script single-read.py shows how to connect to different types of Chafon
reader via serial or TCP/IP and obtain information about the reader as well as to
perform a read.