[sane-devel] Can sensors be set to a value?

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 14:06:37 UTC 2014


The protocol document says that the initial value can be changed, but
then goes on to say that no scanners support this command. That type
of thing is sometimes an error in the documentation. I will have to
try it myself to see if it works.

allan

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
> Hi Allan,
>
> Did you already find the time to look at this?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>> The fujitsu sane backend does not support software changes to that
>> setting, because it was effectively read-only in older scanners. I
>> think the newer machines might support software control of that value.
>> I will try to find some time to look at that this weekend.
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using sane-backends-1.0.24 to access a new Fujitsu fi-7160.
>>>
>>> The manpage shows this in the Sensor section:
>>>
>>>     --function <int> [0] [hardware]
>>>         Function character on screen
>>>
>>> My question is, is there a way to set a sensor value by software, not
>>> using the buttons on the device?
>>>
>>> The main question is because Fujitsu has changed the default function to
>>> 0
>>> in the newest device series while it was 1 in older devices like the
>>> fi-6130.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>
>



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