Being a new guy here, I have been doing a lot of searching on topics that I need to learn about. One of them was interfacing the above mentioned bar code scanner. Found lots of threads, down side is that it is a mixture of things long ago that no longer pertain to current editions of the IDE, firmware or header software (aka lib files). Seen that the signal logic might be inverted and or the byte needed to be flipped LSB for MSB. As it turned out it was not the LSB for MSB but the actual bits were inverted as I am to understand it. Ok in one case I saw SoftwareSerial scanner(8, 9, true);. Well that didnt do it eaither. It was not untill later that I ran across a thread were a user with a screen name of chaos pointed out to another user that he should try SoftwareSerial scanner(8, 9, 1); That user and I now have got to say that chaos saved the day.
I dont know where the "true" came from to invert the bits. Maybe it is some old stuff from earlier days of the SoftwareSerial came from. Maybe this forum needs some maintenance to remove old stuff that is not longer current or something that points it out as only working with revisions XX.X or earlier. All I know it is hard enough being new to this. But having confusing or conflicting info is just not needed.
Sorry if it sounds like a rant. Intent is to inform other new people and to offer up a solution to those with the same scanner. And to point out there is a problem, so at least one that I see.
Thanks