{"id":1220200,"date":"2017-01-18T05:57:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/localhost-site-and-scanning-qr-codes\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T05:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:57:44","slug":"localhost-site-and-scanning-qr-codes","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/localhost-site-and-scanning-qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Localhost site and scanning QR codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, <\/p>\n<p>A client is worried that the Internet connection at their event venue is pretty poor and have asked us to investigate hosting their wordpress site on a laptop and connecting a scanner directly to the laptop for checking people in via the QR code on their tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone done this? 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