Kindle VNC viewer (native app, GPLv2)

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Ollonk

Should I PM him? IRC? I've spent an hour trying to figure out this keymapping stuff, to no avail.

PM and/or post in one of his threads (thread authors often subscribe to their threads).

[twobob]

Yeah. I would PM him. He is a busy guy but will doubtless take them time to provide the info if he knows it time allowing.

definite Kindle Hero.

(I actually nudged him on this exact point earlier today)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=297

hehehe

[twobob]

Tidied up the VNCViewer KUAL extension (extraneous hidden mac files removed)
Added README.

Attached. ORIGINAL WORKS BY Ollonk

[Ollonk]

I ended up mapping the mouse buttons and shift+tab to individual keyboard keys with AutoHotKey. Patience may be a virtue, but I've accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

[wakawakawaka]

This is fantastic. Really one of the biggest reasons I wanted to jailbreak my kindle. I wrote up how I got a virtual display exported to my DXG here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...72&postcount=8

Just in case anyone was wondering...

[twobob]

Originally Posted by hawhill

PoP: don't get distracted with the X stuff - VNC can probably do what you want. I think we need to serve LibVNCClient's HandleCursorPosProc callback properly. I probably won't get to work on this for the next few days, so feel free to give it a try!

Bump to self. Note: This would still be awesome.

As would a general purpose 4/8 bit dithering wrapper for graphics.
These things get lost.

[hawhill]

Yeah, I really need to invest some hours of spare time into this. I hope I'll see those hours soon... :-) Ollonk PM'ed me, but seemed to have circumvented the issue for now.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by hawhill

Yeah, I really need to invest some hours of spare time into this. I hope I'll see those hours soon... :-) Ollonk PM'ed me, but seemed to have circumvented the issue for now.

Your efforts. Any and all. Are greatly appreciated. : D

[Gianni]

running this script on my raspberry, I am able to update - only - the first rows of the kt5 touch (the space where the menu is), but when I click the home button on the kindle, the script crashes...

#!/bin/sh -xe
/usr/bin/Xvnc -geometry 1200x824 -depth 16 -dpi 160 -alwaysshared :1 &
sleep 1
DISPLAY=:1 xterm &
DISPLAY=:1 dwm &
vncviewer :1 &
x2vnc -east localhost:1 &
ssh root@192.168.15.244 /mnt/us/kindlevncviewer/kvncviewer.sh 192.168.15.201:1

this is kvncviewer.sh on the kindle, I commented the last two rows because on the kt5 they don't work
#!/bin/sh
cd $(dirname "$0")
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 1
./kindlevncviewer -config config.lua "$@"
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 0
# send menu key twice to refresh display
#echo "send 139" > /proc/keypad
#echo "send 139" > /proc/keypad

[twobob]

-geometry 1200x824

seems a bit big?

Ill have a play later.

EDIT:

Meh I got tied up. Perhaps tomorrow. nudge me! lest it again falls thru the cracks.

-geometry 1200x824

EDIT: that's the sizes of a DX - dpavlin - who wrote that script - has a DX IIRC.

Having a bit of a play now

Let's try... 600 x 800

[twobob]

Okay... I get this now.

what you are experiencing is this lack of ioctls specific to the device.

There are a few options... easiest would be to add a

while :; do eips ''; usleep 90000; done;
in some other shell..

that works fine.

I will machinate on it some more.

Works okay on mine now with this extra little "poke" to the graphics...


I did this...

ON PC

vncpasswd (enter 8 digit password)

x11vnc -rfbauth ~/.vnc/passwd -bg -accept "popup" -gone "popup" -rfbport 5900 -gui tray=minimal,iconfont=14x17 -forever -noxdamage -shared &

Not only does this provide on-screen verification to allow or disallow connections, it also provides an ugly tray icon that changes color whenever someone connects! Of course, if you don't care about receiving such notifications then remove the "accept" and "gone" arguments.

ssh root@kt

Welcome to KT (192.168.1.70 & 192.168.15.244)

[root@kindle root]# /mnt/us/kindlevncviewer/kvncviewer.sh -password <ThePassword> <ComputerIP>

and then...

ssh root@kt

Welcome to KT (192.168.1.70 & 192.168.15.244)

[root@kindle root]# while :; do eips ''; usleep 90000; done;

I did play with the auto-script a bit... refactoring much of it out to variables..
perhaps I will revisit but this and publish a more general purpose updated one.

However the above "tests the functionality works" and outlines your update problem.

Hope that helps

[twobob]

@Gianni

So. new day - clearer head...

Do exactly what you did before...

and run

ssh root@kt (err. your kindles IP or name if you have named it on your PC )

Quote:
Welcome to Gianni's Kindle!

then do a

[root@kindle root]# while :; do eips ''; usleep 90000; done;

and your other solution should work.

Some background

Spoiler:

This is a problem with the kindle 3 FB calls being embedded in the code.
I did look at building it with a 5 target and have fiddled with the code from time to time idly as it is "good code", but honestly I have done nothing but FAIL with fb stuff myself so far ; )

Hawhill is aware of the fragile ioctrl issues on the 5's and Geekmaster has IIRC tried in large part to workaround them.

But those two tranches of work/thought have not met. Nor do I see them colliding without some serious Zen Master intervention way beyond my pay grade.

But anyways. the kludge should work. wrap it in a "named" shell and kill it when you are done with it. I would do that.

Hope that helps.

[knc1]

Or combine the two as in (watch for what is a double: ' and what is a single: " ) :

ssh root@kt "while :; do eips ''; usleep 90000; done;"

When you lose or otherwise close the above connection, that loop will go away.

ssh ref: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=204942
Includes simplifications to the above and worked examples.

Note: Not intended as a criticism, just a little bit of thread advertisement.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by knc1

Or combine the two as in (watch for what is a double: ' and what is a single: " ) :

ssh root@kt "while :; do eips ''; usleep 90000; done;"

When you lose or otherwise close the above connection, that loop will go away.

ssh ref: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=204942
Includes simplifications to the above and worked examples.

Note: Not intended as a criticism, just a little bit of thread advertisement.

Yeah good call. nice remoting solution. : )

[Gianni]

I need a little time to understand all those commands, but I will try it! :-)