Noob: possible to have the barcode scanner be “persistent”, as in always on and open when the app is opened?

I wonder if keeping the QR and name in the localDB, and refreshing that data periodically would work. Well, except I want to display the state change, which could be stored locally, except that long-term being able to manipulate that would be needed. (Auto clock out everyone at midnight). So being able to manipulate that in Airtable would be easiest.

So many I just need to fully commit to Airtable.

You could save the state change to a stored variable and reference that in your display. As for databasing I am still relatively new to it and trying to work it all out.