The hw_scanner module not only supports barcode readers (although that
was it's original intention). It also happens to support certain card
readers (like the MagTek Dynamag we use for Mercury) because they act
the same way as barcode scanners (like a keyboard and end sequence with
ENTER).
Before we supported Mercury there was no real reason to support multiple
devices on the POSBox, because it didn't make much sense to attach >1
barcode reader to the same POSBox. With Mercury however, this is a real
use case, as users want both a barcode reader and a card reader.
This commit implements support for this, while keeping the functionality
as close as possible to how it was before (eg. care was taken to not
break plug and play support).
This commit contains the patches from the now obsolete 'posbox'
branch. These patches were written by Martin Donies (@mdo-odoo) and
Frédéric Van der Essen (@fvdsn).
Prevents installing the hw_* modules at all when the python
dependencies are missing. If they were already installed
do not start the hardware threads to avoid wasting resources
and logging errors
Rebranding has been done in:
- data/demo files
- html templates
- help notices
- comments
- logger messages
- and other various messages
(Commit taken from odoo-dev:8.0-improve-openerp-odoo-rlu at rev 7deaa08)
Closes#1260
Joren Van Onder