All of our parts are weight based (plastic scrap material). We weigh each individual gaylord and supersack of material upon arrival to our facility. Has anyone connected a floor scale to Epicor to automatically upload weights (via bluetooth or other connection) in Receipt Entry?
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Sure is pretty trivial in classic. In Kinetic it may be a bit tougher, you’ll have to get creative as there is no direct client side connection to the Web.
I know there is no love lost with this group and the Edge Agent but it does talk with scales…
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Seriously? Did not know that.
There is also an experimental feature of the Web Serial API. It is currently supported in Chrome, Edge, and Opera.
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I don’t dislike the edge client in the least bit! I didn’t know it talked to scales, is this accessible to us? in App Studio layer?
Nevermind I see USB Read and Serial Read #Nice!!
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I think the main gripes are with updating and installing, not what it does.
Necessary evil, but management experience could be better.
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This probably will end up in a new thread…
I am not aware of any cloud system that doesn’t have a similar gateway binary: Azure Arc, AD Connect, SQL Connect, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions local Runners, etc. It’s inevitable. 
I think the main complaint is the difference between having the gateway at servers or specific workstations (for labels or scales) vs. being distributed to every single workstation. Of course, this is context dependent. If users want to continue to use local network shares, then this is a legitimate price to pay for that capability. Using the EC for browser first until the classic client is no longer used, is again an excellent, time-limited application.
Before Stephen Edginton left, there was talk of utilizing web workers to do some of this kind of work. This would simplify the management of the code as web workers run even when the web application is not open. It might be a good candidate for the System Monitor for example. Printing could use a server-based gateway much the same way that BarTender can. The Web Serial API can work with Web Workers too.
And separately, QZ Tray runs under Java, so each workstation that installs it takes on that extra security dependency. So, I don’t blame some administrators for trying to avoid the EC when possible, as living off the land vulnerabilities are harder to prevent and detect.
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