User Guides

User Guide for the 3166 Bluetooth^® Rugged UHF RFID Reader.

A quick guide to getting started with the 1128 Bluetooth^® UHF RFID Reader. For more in-depth information, please refer to the 1128 User Guide.

Traducción al español de la Guía de inicio rápido del Lector RFID UHF Bluetooth® 1128.

Spanish translation of the 1128 Bluetooth^® UHF RFID Reader Quick Start Guide.

User guide for the 2136 4-Slot Battery Charger

User Guide for the 2128P Bluetooth^® UHF RFID Reader with ePop-Loq^® and High Gain Antenna

User Guide for the 1166 Rugged Bluetooth^® UHF RFID reader

User Guide for the 2166 Bluetooth^® Rugged UHF RFID Reader with ePop-Loq^®.

To maximise the battery life of TSL® Readers, the recommendations included in this document should be observed by both customers and distributors/resellers of TSL® products.

User Guide for the 2173 Bluetooth^® HF/LF RFID Reader

User Guide for the 1153 Bluetooth^® Wearable UHF RFID reader

Starting with Android 12 (API31), there is a requirement for many App permissions to be obtained from the user at run-time. By following the advice provided in this document, owners of the latest Android devices can continue to enjoy using your RFID App with their TSL^® RFID Reader. 

To maximise the battery life of TSL® Readers, the recommendations included in this document should be observed by both customers and distributors/resellers of TSL® products.

TSL® Readers can be operated in Bluetooth® SPP mode where the Reader is controlled by a custom written application or in HID mode, where the Reader behaves like a Bluetooth® Keyboard. This document details how to switch between these modes.

The TSL^® range of Bluetooth^® Readers are able to appear to host devices as an HID keyboard. In this mode the data read by the reader is sent to the host as if it were typed on the host’s keyboard.  This document describes the Bluetooth^® HID mode in more detail.

This document details Log file and Autorun file commands/responses that can be used with TSL®  Readers with a micro-SD card installed.

Document detailing the firmware version history of the 1128 Bluetooth^® UHF RFID Reader. Older firmware versions can be found in the 1128 Firmware Page

Document detailing the firmware version history of the 1153 Bluetooth^® Wearable UHF RFID Reader. Older firmware versions can be found in the 1153 Firmware Page

This document recaps the behaviour and operation of UHF transponders with respect to selecting, reading and writing, and provides some examples of how to achieve this with the TSL ASCII 2 Protocol.

It is often necessary to change the existing EPC of a tag to a new value to support either standards-based or custom encoding formats. This document provides examples of how to modify the EPC identifier using the TSL RFID Explorer App.

It is often necessary to change the existing EPC of a tag to a new value to support either standards-based or custom encoding formats. This document provides examples of how to modify the EPC identifier using the TSL ASCII 2 protocol.