That’s nice. I suppose you could do the same by printing a bunch of UUIDs on QR codes and add the UUIDs to the respective location in the system.
What I’m doing is even easier. I use an X-Y coordinate system. I assign a letter to a storage unit, e.g. a Kallax is assigned “A”. Then each bin horizontally is X and each bin vertically is Y in A:X:Y. Then fairly easily I can determine that the third bin on the second shelf is A:3:2. That’s short enough to type in a search field. It’s also easy enough to locate a shelf coming from A:X:Y. If the shelf has only one dimension, like a bunch of drawers, I use just one number. This system is fairly easy to learn and eliminates the need for physically tagging every bin or drawer. Doesn’t work for unstructured storage, like boxes on the floor or other shameful things that we all have. 😄
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Homebox has this capability too, you can generate QR codes for assets and scan it later to identify whatever’s inside.
keyez@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh interesting, thanks for the information, I did poke around homeboxs documentation but didn’t see anything mentioning QR codes where as ShelfNU has it as a main feature. Since I can’t seem to get the latter up on unraid may have to givehome box a spin soon.