InQRy

A light-weight, cross-platform utility used to generate a QR code containing hardware specs.

• About
• Supported Platforms
• Installing from source
• Building from source
  • macOS
  • Windows
• How It Works
• Usage
• Screenshot
• Issue submission

• OS X 10.10 or later
• Windows 10
• Windows Server 2012 R2

InQRy is a cross-platform application that generates a single QR code containing the machine's hardware specifications. This application is designed primarily to be used during a physical inventory procedure.

The QR code contains detailed information about the client machine or device, which can then be scanned it quickly add assets into a Snipe-IT database.

• Python 3.4.4 or later
• Note: If you are using the (Homebrew-installed version of Python, the Python commands below will need to be appended with 3. For example, python is python3, pip is pip3, etc.

• clone the repository
• cd InQRy
• pip install .
• Run: python InQRy.py
• Use the InQRy API from the Python interpreter with import inqry

• (Homebrew-installed version of Python 3 (brew install python3)
• OS X 10.10 or later (OS X 10.10 is recommended for forward compatibility)
• Xcode Command Line Tools (7.2.0)
• py2app (0.12) (pip install py2app)

• clone the repository
• python setup.py py2app --iconfile icon/inqry.icns
• InQRy.app is in dist/

• Windows 10
• Python 3.4 or 3.5 (32-bit)
  • Note: InQRy will not build on Python 3.6 or later)
• pyinstaller (3.2.1 or later)

• clone the repository
• pyinstaller --onefile --icon icon/inqry.ico InQRy.py
• InQRy.exe is in dist/

InQRy obtains hardware specs using platform-specific shell commands and Python modules. Data is parsed and homogenized into a single SystemSpecs object, which is passed to a FormInstructions object, where data is added and manipulated to work with the Snipe-IT inventory system. Instructions containing that data are used to create a python-qrcode-generated code, which is displayed on the screen for scanning.

InQRy determines which instructions to follow based on a combination of user input and the machine itself. Those instructions contain other important information that allow it to move fluidly through different types of fields in the Snipe-IT asset entry form.

InQRy was written to obtain asset information quickly and accurately for both an initial physical inventory procedure, as well as subsequent hardware audits.

>>> from inqry.system_specs import systemspecs
>>> ss = systemspecs.SystemSpecs()
>>> ss.os_type
'Darwin'
>>> ss.memory
'8 GB'
>>> ss.storage
{'Drive 1': '251.0 GB SSD (APPLE SSD AP0256J)'}

• Create a GitHub Issue
• Send us an email: apxlab@microsoft.com

• Submit a VSTS bug: aka.ms/hubenglabsr
• Slack (apex-autoinfra.slack.com): #inqry