![]() If you want to try reading a credit card you'll need to chop out the smart card section to make it into a SIM shape so it can fit into the unit. One can use it to read any compatible smart card chip using the reader. Then you can try out apps like cardpeek and others - install it using apt-get: You can check the device has been recognised by using the pcsc_scan utility - and you should see it find the OpenCT Reader as below: Then you make sure the SIM reader is plugged in and restart the daemons: ![]() Then to get the SIM reader going you need to add the following to the openct config file (/etc/nf) - so it knows where to find the SIM reader (it's known as a "phoenix" style reader): $ sudo apt-get install pcscd openct pcsc-tools The second more advanced way requires some setup on Linux - so you'll need to install a few packages: There are two ways to use it - the simplest way is to use apps that can talk directly to the serial port and communicate with the device such as pysimreader or pysim. However it is possible to use it on Linux (Whilst OSX has shipped with the relevant deamon pcscd for a while, it seems that openct is not fully supported so it may not work with this little blue one - unless someone ports it). If you try to connect to the serial port using minicom etc you don't get much. So how do you actually use the thing? It ships with a dodgy mini-CD full of some apparently even dodgier Windows software - not much use. PL2303 Serial PortĪnd it had created a serial device: /dev/ttyUSB0. When it showed up I plugged it into my on Linux box and it was recognised as:īus 001 Device 017: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. ![]() I ordered one of those cheap SIM (Smart card) card readers (often in blue plastic) that take a while to arrive from China. ![]()
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