I bought a DLP-RFID1 USB RFID tag reader/writer from Digikey (Cat # 813-1013-ND). However, I was unable to locate sufficient libraries to develop software that uses it under Linux. So I have written a C++ library to do this. Read on for more information and to download it.

The DLP-RFID1 comprises an FTDI USB-Serial IC connected to a microcontroller. Therefore the library I have developed is based on libftdi. Currently, it is very basic and supports only polling for tags (not reading and writing tags). As I currently have no need for reading and writing tags I don’t plan to add this functionality unless someone asks for it.

The library can be downloaded from http://www.electricrock.co.nz/files/rfid1/librfid1-0.1.0.tar.bz2. Documentation is provided in the package.

This is my first time making a library package for Linux, so if you find any problems or have any suggestions please leave a comment and let me know.