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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 > > > -- > Erich Hammer Head of Library Systems > [log in to unmask] University Libraries > 518-442-3891 University @ Albany > > "Religion is a magic device for turning unanswerable > questions into unquestionable answers." -- Art Gecko > -- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* The trouble with us in America isn't that the *poetry* of life has turned to *prose*, but that it has turned to *advertising copy*. -Louis Kronenberger