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By megaplow
#196230
Hello,
My two RFID Readers showed up with ID-12LAs. My intention is to run them from a Pi3 running Pixel. The drivers linked from the SparkFun site are not for Debian. I wanted to know if there are alternative drivers or if the drivers are needed at all. Additionally if there is a hello world RFID script, a link would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
By megaplow
#196233
Turns out everything works kind of perfectly out of the box!

On the pi, devices show up as /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, /dev/ttyUSB2 ...

I found some sample code here:
http://bradsrpi.blogspot.com/2013/05/rf ... using.html

One change I needed to make was the byte to char conversion.
My code is using: str(ord(data)) to get the string value of the character code.

Keep coding!