Weight Scale - Data Entry Point

[bmarcowka]

Does PA have the ability to read from a PC based scale?  If so are there any particular scales that work/integrate with greater ease?

[v-yuxima-msft]

Hi @bmarcowka ,

What do you mean the ability to read from a PC based scale?

Best Regards.

Yumia

[bmarcowka]

Sorry for the late reply. 

We have an operation where we weigh objects and they have requested to have an application developed that would be able to read from a digital scale.  The concept is the user would input all the necessary parameteres and then weigh the object and capture that weight into the app.  

[willnewham]

This is something I'm just looking into also. @bmarcowka  did you manage to find any more out on this subject?

Cheers.

[LocalPantry]

@bmarcowka , @willnewham 

Same question. Any headway on a solution?

Thanks in advance.

[Jb8816]

Hi,  I was curious if anyone had a solution for this. 

[JChouinard2016]

I've been working with doing something similar to this, but using a zebra barcode scanner. I have a simple app that is set up with a textbox and a timer. The timer runs on repeat every second. I used an if statement similar to this in the OnTimerEnd property of the timer:

If(Textbox1.Text <> "", //If textbox isn't empty

Patch(DataSource, Defaults(DataSource), {Data: Textbox1.Text}); //Sends data to a data source

Reset(Textbox1); //Empties the textbox for new data

SetFocus(Textbox1); //Puts cursor back into textbox1

); //Does nothing if the textbox is empty

The app runs on a raspberry pi so that we will not need to use up a whole PC for one constantly-running app.

The scanner is connected to the raspberry pi and acts as a keyboard, so when it scans something, it types the data into the textbox. The timer sends the data to a data source using the above code, and that's really it. Nothing too complicated. This process wouldn't require a raspberry pi; you can use anything that can run Power Apps.

Check out this website for how to get your scale to act as a keyboard:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Connect-an-Electronic-Balance-or-Scale-to-a/