Plain scanners will "type" text when a barcode is scanned. More advanced have some settings and need to be set into such mode - usually by scanning a special barcode given by vendor. I have a Zebex barcode scanner that does exactly this. Any idea how I can capture this input? In the end, I want to ...

Incredible nobody commented on this, it's an amazing concept. I would love to get ramping to work on raspberry pi. Have successfully timelapsed with Canon dslr using ghphoto2 with --interval, the plan is to set up a raspberry to do timelapse continuously, starting with the v2 camera add-on for ease....