Cricket VS pyusb

So far, what I learned is: 1. This resource from Dan S. Charlton is amazing. Huge thank you if somehow you end up reading this. 2. The SSI TBT4 KVM Dock seems like the holy grail, sadly it is impossible for me to buy as a consumer. 3. There is this USB-C thing sold through Amazon. It doesn’t seem to work with my Pro Display XDR as tried by a fellow redditor with a bunch of different cables/scenarios. Sadly I can’t find the link at this time. 4. There’s a development board, the Model 3141 USB4® Switch that costs $993.75. This is super expensive and wouldn’t even work out of the box for this purpose (I believe). It may be a stretch, but I may be able to hack something myself after discovering this repo. 5. Be patient and wait? CalDigit or other companies must ship something like this in the future, right?!

You can write python code that reads the data the scanner is sending, but it's not super simple getting up to speed on this. It might be best to search on python read usb hid device and start experimenting. The links found on the search lead to pyusb which has a tutorial. The first stumbling block is that the tutorial requires data about the device, such as idVendor and idProduct. You can write python code to find these values for your scanner if you don't know them, but you'll have to search on that.