Re: Canon Pixma TS5150- no WIFI-connection

Hi,

On 2024-05-22 01:43, Wolfram Heider via sane-devel wrote:
>
> the Canon Pixma TS5150 is a pretty simple inkjet-machine, providing 
> printing, copying and scanning (no FAX).
>
> We are talking here just about the WIFI-connection (cable should work).
>
>   * Canon, using a special protocol in the form of bnjp://IP.address,
>     provdes a proprietary software /scangearmp2/, which is working,
>     but is pretty rudimentary as well.
>   * commercial software like /Vuescan/ is getting into contact
>     immediately without any configuration
>   * SANE - in its last versions - should be able to handle the
>     bjnp-protocol as well, unfortunately doesn't in this case. You can
>     make, what you want.
>

Could you tell us what platform, OS and SANE version you are using 
(output of scanimage -V)?
The TS5100 series machines have been supported for quite some time.

Some newer machines use the bjnp protocol for USB connectivity but use 
other protocols for WiFi. I don't know if this is the case for your 
machine, but we do have this machine series supported for both Wifi and 
USB with the pixma backend. So it should work. Perhaps you can give us 
some more details as to what you see?

> But there is a package /sane-airscan/, which does the job, making 
> available Xsane, Skanlite and all of the other Opensource-frontends. 
> Also without any further configuration.
>
> So my question is: Shouldn't it be possible, to integrate - or, at  
> least, to use its technology - /sane-airscan/ into SANE to make 
> machines of that kind work directly out of the SANE-box?
>

That is up to the author or sane-airscan. IIRC, there was some overture 
about some kind of integration but I don't know how far that discussion 
went.
We do have the sane-escl backend, which has some overlap with the 
sane-airscan backend.

Cheers,
Ralph