How to send data from serial port to NodeRED?

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Im connecting my wireless USB barcode scanner with my raspberry Pi Zero W. Im able to receive the data using pi zero but not for Node-RED. There is no message being show up. Can anyone help in this matter?

Looking at the second screenshot your barcode reader emulates a keyboard.
So you must look for node that can capture HID devices or maybe you can reconfigure your scanner to output serial data

Tip: https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-usbhid

Ok. I will try to use it later on. So, the normal serial in node is not really suitable for this case?

I am not able to install the palette

Im able to install the palette after changing my Node.js version to v8.12.0. Now i can proceeds to convert the data obtain from my scanner. Thanks alot.:slight_smile:

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