Multi-pairing
You can connect up to 5 scanners to one Gateway independent of the integration path selected.
When creating or editing a device configuration in the INSIGHT webportal, go to Settings → Gateway if you want to lower the default limit of 5 devices per Gateway to 4, 3, 2, or even 1.
Note
When the maximum number of scanners is connected, the Scanner LED turns red to signal that the Gateway is fully occupied. If a scanner goes into sleep mode or is inserted into the charger, it disconnects from the Gateway. In this case, the Scanner LED turns green to signal that the Gateway can connect again to an additional scanner.
By activating the Streams API, certain metadata, like the scanner’s serial number, is transferred with every barcode scan. This way, the scan data can be assigned to one of the several connected scanners.
The included metadata is transferred in the format of the following example:
{
"api_version": "0.4",
"event_type": "scan",
"device_serial": "M2MR000001252",
"scan_code": "PGCS210007842\r"
}