I would be interested in this as well.  Particularly 3M now
Bibliotheca tattle-tape gates with a patron-counter.
If you have done anything with the information from the software they sell
or any other interesting things with the information I would be interested
in hearing about that as well.

Thanks,

Jeff Sabol

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 8:05 AM Hammer, Erich F <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> We have a Tattle-Tape patron-counter and alarm gate that is logged by a
> commercial software package which pushes the numbers to a cloud service,
> and I feel like the software/cloud service is too complicated and expensive
> for what it does.  The cost/complexity is probably fine for more
> complicated systems with RFID or at larger scales, but not for a simple
> gate count.  The gate has an integrated webpage with current total counts
> on it, and I'm hoping to build an app to harvest the counts and build
> reports on the fly and/or email them on a schedule.  I don't see how it can
> be all that difficult (famous last words).
>
> I don't want to re-invent the wheel if it's not needed, so I'm wondering
> if anyone here has done (or knows of) something similar and is willing to
> share?
>
> Thanks,
> Erich
>
>
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