In this modern age, people are moving away from carrying cards.. but they nearly always have their smart phone to hand. It would be nice to be able to display your barcode for scanning at self service machines directly on your phone.
+1
Our patrons would love this.
Agreed, this would be useful. I know some websites can tell if you are on mobile and display a link or button only if you are. That could be handy since there wouldn't be a real use case for using the barcode on a PC? Also if we could make it so it ups the screen brightness (not sure if possible just in mobile browser) but most people don't seem to keep their phones at high enough brightness to be read by a barcode scanner.
Here's what I tried today: https://zivotdesign.com/p/view.php?p=16143692116112 Using https://github.com/lindell/JsBarcode I think we'd have to create a system preference for defining what card type to use (CODE39, Codabar, UPC, etc). The selection could also be used to set the default in the patron card creator.
Looks like this tool has more options, including all the options we offer in the patron card creator: https://github.com/metafloor/bwip-js
+1 - really interested in this development.
Is this something you're still experimenting with Owen?
(In reply to Martin Renvoize from comment #7) > Is this something you're still experimenting with Owen? I started working on Bug 27825 - Add preference for choosing the default format for patron barcodes - and got stalled. I don't recall what the sticking point was or if I just got redirected.
Going to mark this one as a duplicate of bug 26692... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26692 ***
Actually, I take that back, as that one is a bit too generic still, despite it listing the same use case...
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/add-to-wallet-android#0 is interesting too
(In reply to Martin Renvoize from comment #11) > https://codelabs.developers.google.com/add-to-wallet-android#0 is > interesting too Ohhh very interesting. That would be a very cool feature. I think I'll raise a ticket for that. It's not something most of our libraries would use, but as a library user I would love to have this...
See Bug 25332 for talk about adding a library card to a smart phone wallet