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Milestone POS Integration Help/Query.

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Apr 08, 2016

Hi all,

I've read the following: http://ipvm.com/reports/pos-integration-examined

In my case, using milestone transact, the tills are set to 'send' data to the cctv server on a specific IP/port. Milestone only supports 'connecting in' to the tills using the TCP client connector. Serial is not an option. So there's a bit of a mis-match.

I'm not sure if it is possible to set the tills to allow incoming connections. Is there any kind of device available that can act as a middle man? Ideally the device would 'sniff' the data from the till and then allow transact to connect to it to pull the data in.

U
Undisclosed #2
Apr 09, 2016
IPVMU Certified

Are the tills serial or not?

Milestone does support serial transactions.

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Apr 10, 2016

The tills are serial but they blue screen when set to use serial.

U
Undisclosed #2
Apr 10, 2016
IPVMU Certified

Tills are usually integrated into VMSes by push, not pull; it's more efficient than polling and requires only a small amount of memory.

Also, it makes it easier to associate or 'burn' the transaction into the correlated video.

Whose registers/model#?

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Apr 11, 2016

I don't have the till make/model but either way it looks like they won't work with Milestone. Is there such a device that can sit in the middle?(listen on the port numbers and then relay the output to the VMS by allowing it to connect in over TCP)

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Paul Curran
Apr 12, 2016
How do the tills generate a printer output? Are they windows based? Another solution might be to use Milestone Screen Recorder?
UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Apr 12, 2016

Screen recorder is an option I didn't think of so I will definitely check that out!

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