This is a great hack to get custom passes/codes into the wallet, and I'm glad the author wrote it up. I may end up doing this myself. That shell script to generate a bmp was wild.
Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
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#12Oooh, now do Orca cards next. Seattle is one of the tech capitals of the United States, and on top of the metro system just being not great, it's also technically inferior to nearly every single other major city that I've used public transit. Pick any European city, CDMX, Denver. They're all light years ahead of Seattle. Denver might have been my favorite. Fun fact, one of the orgs that runs Orca actually wrote a blo…
My local transit system just added tap-to-pay that works with any credit card (or Apple/Google Pay etc.). As long as you use the same card it handles transfers, multi-day passes, etc. seamlessly as well—it will automatically ensure you're getting the correct rate (e.g. no charge for passes or rides after a certain number within a certain period).
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#13Pass4wallet is a nice app for that, if you’re ok with your pass data being (according to their privacy policy) sent to their server, signed and then deleted.
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#14I solved this problem by taking a photograph of my library card. To check out a book, I load the picture and hold it up to the scanner.
I added an image of my barcode to a location based reminder, so it pops up in a notification when I go to my local library.
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#15Pass4wallet is a nice app for that, if you’re ok with your pass data being (according to their privacy policy) sent to their server, signed and then deleted.
I did this just last week with my Chicago Public Library card and Pass4wallet and it’s great, even though CPL scanners still can’t scan screen codes.
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#16This is a really great write up, very clear and easy to follow. Was very impressed at your pure bash barcode generator. I'm eager to try this out on my own library card!
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#17I solved this problem by taking a photograph of my library card. To check out a book, I load the picture and hold it up to the scanner.
This is a brilliant and simple solution. If it's a static barcode, a photo is all that is needed.
There's little advantage to having it in the wallet.
I store all my IDs in a Photo Album on my phone.
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#18I expected something more like squeezing the cards with NIF lasers (and alchemy) into diamond lattices encoding the information and then hacking it alongside phone storage
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#19Only slightly related but my preferred way to generate barcodes is the barcode writer in pure postcsript.
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#20Gosh. I just emailed myself a .png of the barcode containing my library card number and open it in, like, the Photos or Gmail app when I'm at the kiosk.