desktop scanner - help!!

[wgipps]

Hi from Australia - 1st time poster.
I really need some help. Im not a tech person or a Pi person or programmer or anything. I have a project I am working on for a primary school to do some admin work for them and save them some time and money. This is my money - its not a business or anything. I really need some help tying it all together to function.

Heres what i have.
-R-Pi 3B+ Win10 IoT Core.
-5" touch screen. The screen works but the touch doesnt work - i dont know how to make it work.
-Cheap ebay desktop scanner connected via USB
-1TB USB connected storage device
-Custom software to run the scanner written in C#. The software has been tested on my laptop and works fine. It hasnt been tested on the Pi.
-The IoT dashboard on my computer
-Teamviewer on my computer

The Pi boots up as normal.

The Pi recognises the scanner and the storage device as soon as they are plugged in - see screenshot.

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The software is on my computer but i have also loaded the software into the Pi via the IoT dashboard. see attached.

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And here I am stuck.

What do I want?
I would love somebody to drive this thing remotely, unzip the software, install it, help test the software to make sure it works with the hardware and make the touchscreen work.

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I am willing to pay a small negotiated amount of money to the person who can help me get this project up and running for me.

Please remember - I dont know any of this stuff or programming at all - so if you need me to 'wget a sudo bash for my PiHat' I am going to have idea what you are talking about.

Thank you.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi from Australia - 1st time poster.
I really need some help. Im not a tech person or a Pi person or programmer or anything. I have a project I am working on for a primary school to do some admin work for them and save them some time and money. This is my money - its not a business or anything. I really need some help tying it all together to function.

Heres what i have.
-R-Pi 3B+ Win10 IoT Core.
-5" touch screen. The screen works but the touch doesnt work - i dont know how to make it work.
-Cheap ebay desktop scanner connected via USB
-1TB USB connected storage device
-Custom software to run the scanner written in C#. The software has been tested on my laptop and works fine. It hasnt been tested on the Pi.
-The IoT dashboard on my computer
-Teamviewer on my computer

The Pi boots up as normal.

The Pi recognises the scanner and the storage device as soon as they are plugged in - see screenshot.pi screen.jpg

The software is on my computer but i have also loaded the software into the Pi via the IoT dashboard. see attached.
Untitled.jpg

And here I am stuck.

What do I want?
I would love somebody to drive this thing remotely, unzip the software, install it, help test the software to make sure it works with the hardware and make the touchscreen work.

g.jpg

I am willing to pay a small negotiated amount of money to the person who can help me get this project up and running for me.

Please remember - I dont know any of this stuff or programming at all - so if you need me to 'wget a sudo bash for my PiHat' I am going to have idea what you are talking about.

Thank you.

First and foremost Windows IoT Core has very little resemblance to Windows 10 Desktop or Server, therefore what works on your Windows 10 Laptop is unlikely to work in Windows 10 IoT Core "out of the box":

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 5&t=115197


Windows 10 IoT is a niche environment and therefore it takes a lot of effort to find support, especially drivers for peripherals:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/window ... deployment


Though Microsoft do have a Developers Forum:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forum ... WindowsIoT

[rpiMike]

What is the goal of this Pi and scanner? Just to scan documents?

[wgipps]

Thank you
1 - Yes the scanner will scan documents.
2 - it is a simple C# app - the Pi recognises the hardware out of the box as a basic webcam 2.0. My (very unqualified) suggestion is that it should run as it is very small app.

[fruitoftheloom]

Thank you
1 - Yes the scanner will scan documents.
2 - it is a simple C# app - the Pi recognises the hardware out of the box as a basic webcam 2.0. My (very unqualified) suggestion is that it should run as it is very small app.

Recognising a device is plugged in does not equate to whatever software your using can actually communicate.....

...above is just shows in your picture a USB 2.0 WebCam is plugged in but no manufacturer or device ID.

[rpiMike]

I would ditch Win10 IoT and try Raspbian and SANE

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=205504

[fruitoftheloom]

I would ditch Win10 IoT and try Raspbian and SANE

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=205504

+1

[wgipps]

ok - thank you for your input.

I had all sorts of problems getting Win10 onto it in the 1st place - ive never used these things before.

Can i ask please - the guy who wrote the software for me says this - "I can program for Linux on the same C#. C# - cross-platform language'
Raspian is Linux - correct?

The scanner is a Aibecy L1000 - its basically a rebranded something - god knows what. But it says it works on windows systems (apple or linux not listed). Will Linux/Pi recognise it at all if i plug it in?

[B.Goode]

ok - thank you for your input.

I had all sorts of problems getting Win10 onto it in the 1st place - ive never used these things before.

Can i ask please - the guy who wrote the software for me says this - "I can program for Linux on the same C#. C# - cross-platform language'
Raspian is Linux - correct?

The scanner is a Aibecy L1000 - its basically a rebranded something - god knows what. But it says it works on windows systems (apple or linux not listed). Will Linux/Pi recognise it at all if i plug it in?

Can i ask please - the guy who wrote the software for me says this - "I can program for Linux on the same C#. C# - cross-platform language'
Raspian is Linux - correct?

If the developer is confident he can do it, accept his offer... But make sure you negotiate an acceptable price for a proven working solution.


The Raspberry Pi recommended and supported Raspbian Operating System is a re-implementation of the Debian distribution of the Linux Operating System. The difference is that Raspbian has had to be rebuilt to take advantage of the arm CPU around which all Raspberry Pi boards are constructed.

So yes, Raspbian is a version of Linux. But not everything written for 'linux' is necessarily compatible with Raspbian on an RPi board.

The scanner is a Aibecy L1000 - its basically a rebranded something - god knows what. But it says it works on windows systems (apple or linux not listed). Will Linux/Pi recognise it at all if i plug it in?

You are the one with the scanner - you are the one best placed to answer the question. There is some troubleshooting advice from Raspberry Pi towards the end of this documentation - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md

[DougieLawson]

Thank you
1 - Yes the scanner will scan documents.
2 - it is a simple C# app - the Pi recognises the hardware out of the box as a basic webcam 2.0. My (very unqualified) suggestion is that it should run as it is very small app.

For that get plain Raspbian 2019-09-26, CUPS and SANE.

I used that to resurrect an old HP6840 printer as a cloud printer and a 2005 LIDE scanner that was unsupported by Microsoft Win8 and later but worked with SANE.

Microsoft's Raspberry IoT stuff appears to be a project that they have abandoned after the RPi3B support was completed.

C# is loosely supported by Mono. The essence of that being loosely. It was missing core pieces last time I looked at it.