I want my web application to communicate with a serial device on a host machine (e.g. a card reader). I don’t want to use the ActiveX/COM route. Is there something in HTML5 websockets that could help me?
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I want my web application to communicate with a serial device on a host machine (e.g. a card reader). I don’t want to use the ActiveX/COM route. Is there something in HTML5 websockets that could help me?
Complete code example for a serial-to-WebSocket gateway is here:
https://github.com/oberstet/Autobahn/tree/master/demo/serial2ws
This is based on Autobahn WebSockets .. and is possible because Autobahn is based on Twisted, and Twisted has support for serial, XMPP, … many things.
Disclaimer: I’m author of Autobahn.