txtr Beagle?

floe · 09-02-2013, 09:00 AM

Hello everyone,

are there any plans to create a device plugin for the txtr Beagle?

This is a very, very cheap e-Reader which can only receive content from an Android smartphone via Bluetooth (in fact, it doesn't even do any rendering itself, it only displays 600x800 greyscale bitmaps). There are various open-source implementations of the protocol available:

http://hackcorellation.blogspot.de/2...-transfer.html
http://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/hacking/txtr/
https://github.com/floe/opentxtr
https://github.com/schierla/jbeagle

Creating a plugin should be fairly straightforward, provided that Calibre can render to bitmaps.... is this possible?

Thanks, floe

kovidgoyal · 09-02-2013, 09:11 AM

No plans, but patches are welcome. A shortcut you can use to render books to bitmaps is convert to pdf in calibre and then use pdftoppm (which is bundled with calibre).

floe · 09-06-2013, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No plans, but patches are welcome. A shortcut you can use to render books to bitmaps is convert to pdf in calibre and then use pdftoppm (which is bundled with calibre).

Thanks for the quick reply - is there any other plugin which also renders to bitmaps which I could use as a starting point?

floe

kovidgoyal · 09-06-2013, 03:35 AM

Not that I know of.

wovvbager · 01-30-2015, 02:24 AM

Hi,

I found the java source on github which allows to transfer PDFs or epubs to the txtr reader.

please see: https://github.com/schierla/jbeagle

Do you think it would be possible to add this to calibre?

Thanks
Frank

09-02-2013, 09:00 AM	#1
floe Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: txtr Beagle	txtr Beagle? Hello everyone, are there any plans to create a device plugin for the txtr Beagle? This is a very, very cheap e-Reader which can only receive content from an Android smartphone via Bluetooth (in fact, it doesn't even do any rendering itself, it only displays 600x800 greyscale bitmaps). There are various open-source implementations of the protocol available: http://hackcorellation.blogspot.de/2...-transfer.html http://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/hacking/txtr/ https://github.com/floe/opentxtr https://github.com/schierla/jbeagle Creating a plugin should be fairly straightforward, provided that Calibre can render to bitmaps.... is this possible? Thanks, floe

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09-02-2013, 09:11 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No plans, but patches are welcome. A shortcut you can use to render books to bitmaps is convert to pdf in calibre and then use pdftoppm (which is bundled with calibre).

09-06-2013, 03:35 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not that I know of.

01-30-2015, 02:24 AM	#5
wovvbager old guy, but still a geek Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: txtr beagle	Hi, I found the java source on github which allows to transfer PDFs or epubs to the txtr reader. please see: https://github.com/schierla/jbeagle Do you think it would be possible to add this to calibre? Thanks Frank