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

[Doug Easterbrook]

hi mike.

you could base 64 encode it and truncate at 32 characters.

that will get you hex

Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
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Phone (403) 650-1978

> On Mar 22, 2023, at 8:40 AM, Mike Matthews - Omnis via omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 
> ----
> 
> 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
> 
> ----
> 
> 
> 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($0,
> line, "\""); printf("%s\n", line[4]); }'
> 
> 
> what I got back from the command was the same as what the apple ->about
> this mac->system report->ahardware showed
> 
> 
> but it is nowhere near what omnis gave (some characters changed to mask
> things out)
> 
> 
> eg:
> 
> Apple says :  D18B86BC-****-****-****-9CFC8D48CBFB
> 
> 
> omnis says:  JH9H-T4MX-4CG3-YYY2-****-****-****-****
> 
> 
> meaning..   it it the real hardware ID?
> 
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
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> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
> On Feb 1, 2023, at 4:54 AM, Kelly Burgess <kellyb at montana.com> wrote:
> 
> Calculate thisMachine as OW3.$gethardwareid()
> 
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