Machine UUID (was Re: Creating a unique number / ID in Omnis Studio_

[Mike Matthews - Omnis]

Hello All,

Apparently the format of the OW3.$gethardwareid() I am using is not good enough for our beloved UK tax office, HMRC.  They ask for this:

Submit a UUID which is 128 bits or 32 hex characters long

# Gov-Client-Device-ID: beec798b-b366-47fa-b1f8-92cede14a1ce

# Omnis version : 69CW-EQK5-B92I-YYY5-69CD-7MK5-BY2Q-7XKZ

So how do you convert the OW3 result into either a 128 bits or 32 hex characters long string?

Thanks

Mike Matthews





On 1 Feb 2023, at 19:41, Andrew Stolarz <stolarz at gmail.com<mailto:stolarz at gmail.com>> wrote:

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Doug / Mike

I asked this to Omnis back in 2017, they stated at that time. (I dont
recall what version of Omnis).

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The id is formed from various pieces of information we attempt to get about
the hardware, and this typically includes

MACAddress
CDRomDriveInfo
DisplayAdapter
HardDriveInfo
IDEAdapter
RAMInfo
VolumeSerialNumber
ProcessorInfo

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Andrew


On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:22 PM Doug Easterbrook via omnisdev-en <
omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com<mailto:omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>> wrote:

hi kelly.

do you know what this function is based on?    I went to see what my
hardware ID was using apple menu and tried to five into the system reports.

then I read some place that this will give it to you on a mac

ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk '/IOPlatformUUID/ { split($0,
line, "\""); printf("%s\n", line[4]); }'


what I got back from the command was the same as what the apple ->about
this mac->system report->ahardware showed


but it is nowhere near what omnis gave (some characters changed to mask
things out)


eg:

Apple says :  D18B86BC-****-****-****-9CFC8D48CBFB


omnis says:  JH9H-T4MX-4CG3-YYY2-****-****-****-****


meaning..   it it the real hardware ID?



Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
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On Feb 1, 2023, at 4:54 AM, Kelly Burgess <kellyb at montana.com> wrote:

Calculate thisMachine as OW3.$gethardwareid()

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