New OpenInkpot snapshot released (now includes CoolReader)

lunohod · 01-23-2009, 07:50 PM

A new OpenInkpot snapshot has been released! Coolreader has been ported to OI and is included in this snapshot.

More here.

Fake51 · 01-25-2009, 05:01 PM

Nice work! Gotta get round to trying out OI soon, tired of some of the lacks in the Hanlin firmware.

Regards
Fake

rjh · 01-26-2009, 03:30 AM

Ssh...don't tell everyone, but we've now got a keyboard :-)

Things seem to be moving along pretty quickly now - definitely makes the Hanlin the preferred hardware platform for me.

Still quite flaky when run live, how are others finding it when installed to the reader?

motorhead · 01-26-2009, 05:19 AM

Mine freezes every couple of minutes and the only way to fix it is to reinstall the firmware. It has great functions and potential, but it's pretty unstable, at least on my reader.
One thing I found very annoying is the page number/button 2 function. I can't get rid of it. The little box asking for my page pops up and that's the last thing I can do with my book before I have to reset it. If I type in a wrong page number, like if I make it too long, I can't erase it and the little box will refuse to turn to that page, so it simply stays in the middle. You can type in more numbers, you can even have plus and minus in there, but that's pretty much all you can do. And there's no way to get rid of the box, so once you get it, you pretty much have a calculator that has plus and minus, but it doesn't work.

bozon42 · 01-26-2009, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjh

Ssh...don't tell everyone, but we've now got a keyboard :-)

Things seem to be moving along pretty quickly now - definitely makes the Hanlin the preferred hardware platform for me.

Still quite flaky when run live, how are others finding it when installed to the reader?

Hi rjh,

what do you mean by ?:
>Ssh...don't tell everyone, but we've now got a >keyboard :-)

Will I be able to connect USB keyboard to my
LbookV3? (currently with original lbook firmware)

Regards,

bozon42

Dave_S · 01-26-2009, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjh

Still quite flaky when run live, how are others finding it when installed to the reader?

I found it to be a bit strange when run live as well, so I loaded it directly on my BEBOOK branded Hanlin V3. It worked so well, that I went back to the OpenInkPot web site and made a contribution to the development team. It is still installed, and in use several hours a day reading FB2 format ebooks.

slayda · 01-26-2009, 09:08 AM

I flashed mine and don't intend to go back the the Jinke updates.

With version 20090120 (not quite 0.2 yet) there is a keyboard for searches that works well. It has the English and the Cyrillic alphabets and (I think) some others. Don't think a USB keyboard is available and may not ever be.

The OI update seems to work well, you just need to remember what functions are mapped to which keys. I still have to keep my cheat sheet nearby for some of them.

And I love that you can delete books from the reader.

Dave_S · 01-26-2009, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bozon42

Will I be able to connect USB keyboard to my
LbookV3? (currently with original lbook firmware)

USB is a master/slave system, but the reader and keyboard are both slaves. So I really doubt that you will ever be able to connect an external keyboard, but I could be wrong. I think that it would require a keyboard designed as a USB master, but all the USB keyboards designed for PC use are USB slaves.

javimm · 01-26-2009, 11:03 AM

The live version hung a lot of times when I tested it in November. I installed the permanent firmware version then, and haven't looked back since . I upgrade as soon as a new snapshot is available, and it hasn't hung once ever. Very stable, and way better than Jinke's or Bebook's firm if you don't need DRM support (which I don't).

OI is faster, have more features, and the development is FAST. Every snapshot has a new set of featues that makes the good even better.

If someone is hesitating in using it, just install the latest snapshot. You won't be disapointed.

wallcraft · 01-26-2009, 11:45 AM

The advantage of the live version is that you can switch back to the Hanlin firmware to use the USB connection to a PC. The latest live version froze a few times when I was testing out different ebook formats, but it seems stable in routine use (on a 1GB card). This is definitely the way to go if you want to give OI a spin on your Hanlin. Keep a paper clip handy to reboot via the reset hole on the back if necessary (the reboot will take you back to the Hanlin firmware, as will selecting reboot under OK -> scripts).

If you like it, then by all means switch to the permanent firmware and use a stand-alone card reader to get content onto your SD card.

Dave_S · 01-26-2009, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wallcraft

If you like it, then by all means switch to the permanent firmware and use a stand-alone card reader to get content onto your SD card.

When I tried OpenInkPot live, I found it to be rather slow and a wee bit cranky. The installed version is much nicer to work with, and has not ever crashed on me the way the Hanlin/BEBOOK firmware sometimes did.

I have not tried it yet, but you may not even need the Hanlin firmware to USB connect to the device. USB does work in OI, and you can SSH into bash on Linux via USB from the PC. So you should be able to get books from the PC that way IF ftp is available. As I said, I have not tried file transfers yet, but I do not have any current plans to go back to the Hanlin software which seems to be even more buggy than OpenInkPot. And OpenInkPot is still less than version 0.2 !!!

wallcraft · 01-26-2009, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave_S

When USB does work in OI, and you can SSH into bash on Linux via USB from the PC.

As you say, SSH via USB is in principle "good enough" to do file transfers as well as other things. However, it is not working for Windows PCs and it did not work for Ubuntu either when I tried this briefly (I see there are new instructions for Ubuntu, so I need to try again).

Dave_S · 01-26-2009, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wallcraft

As you say, SSH via USB is in principle "good enough" to do file transfers as well as other things. However, it is not working for Windows PCs and it did not work for Ubuntu either when I tried this briefly (I see there are new instructions for Ubuntu, so I need to try again).

I am on Windows and Debian, and as you say, it does not yet work on Windows. It does, however, work just fine on Debian at this time, so I do not think that there should be any reason that it will not work on Ubuntu now? I was able to run top on the OpenInkPot Linux system and see what processes were running, but that is all that I have really tried so far.

Good luck if you try it.

bozon42 · 01-26-2009, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slayda

I flashed mine and don't intend to go back the the Jinke updates.

With version 20090120 (not quite 0.2 yet) there is a keyboard for searches that works well. It has the English and the Cyrillic alphabets and (I think) some others. Don't think a USB keyboard is available and may not ever be.

The OI update seems to work well, you just need to remember what functions are mapped to which keys. I still have to keep my cheat sheet nearby for some of them.

And I love that you can delete books from the reader.

Hi slayda,

you wrote:
>With version 20090120 (not quite 0.2 yet) there is a keyboard for searches >that works well.

Do you mean buttons (which ones?), don't you?

bozon42

bozon42 · 01-26-2009, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave_S

USB is a master/slave system, but the reader and keyboard are both slaves. So I really doubt that you will ever be able to connect an external keyboard, but I could be wrong. I think that it would require a keyboard designed as a USB master, but all the USB keyboards designed for PC use are USB slaves.

Thanks Dave_S for the explanation.
bozon42

01-23-2009, 07:50 PM	#1
lunohod OpenInkpot developer Posts: 211 Karma: 5627 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Device: N516,V3,PRS505,iLiad,eSlick,E60,K3,K4NT,M90,PB912,KoboMini	New OpenInkpot snapshot released (now includes CoolReader) A new OpenInkpot snapshot has been released! Coolreader has been ported to OI and is included in this snapshot. More here.

01-26-2009, 05:19 AM	#4
motorhead Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Lbook V3	Mine freezes every couple of minutes and the only way to fix it is to reinstall the firmware. It has great functions and potential, but it's pretty unstable, at least on my reader. One thing I found very annoying is the page number/button 2 function. I can't get rid of it. The little box asking for my page pops up and that's the last thing I can do with my book before I have to reset it. If I type in a wrong page number, like if I make it too long, I can't erase it and the little box will refuse to turn to that page, so it simply stays in the middle. You can type in more numbers, you can even have plus and minus in there, but that's pretty much all you can do. And there's no way to get rid of the box, so once you get it, you pretty much have a calculator that has plus and minus, but it doesn't work. Last edited by motorhead; 01-26-2009 at 06:57 AM.

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Fake51 Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 20 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: UK Device: LBook V3	Nice work! Gotta get round to trying out OI soon, tired of some of the lacks in the Hanlin firmware. Regards Fake

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rjh Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 116 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: New Zealand Device: TungstenT3 Nokia770 BeBook	Ssh...don't tell everyone, but we've now got a keyboard :-) Things seem to be moving along pretty quickly now - definitely makes the Hanlin the preferred hardware platform for me. Still quite flaky when run live, how are others finding it when installed to the reader?

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slayda Retired & reading more! Posts: 2,764 Karma: 1884247 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Alabama, USA Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One	I flashed mine and don't intend to go back the the Jinke updates. With version 20090120 (not quite 0.2 yet) there is a keyboard for searches that works well. It has the English and the Cyrillic alphabets and (I think) some others. Don't think a USB keyboard is available and may not ever be. The OI update seems to work well, you just need to remember what functions are mapped to which keys. I still have to keep my cheat sheet nearby for some of them. And I love that you can delete books from the reader.

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javimm Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 20 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: Hanlin V3	The live version hung a lot of times when I tested it in November. I installed the permanent firmware version then, and haven't looked back since . I upgrade as soon as a new snapshot is available, and it hasn't hung once ever. Very stable, and way better than Jinke's or Bebook's firm if you don't need DRM support (which I don't). OI is faster, have more features, and the development is FAST. Every snapshot has a new set of featues that makes the good even better. If someone is hesitating in using it, just install the latest snapshot. You won't be disapointed.

01-26-2009, 11:45 AM	#10
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The advantage of the live version is that you can switch back to the Hanlin firmware to use the USB connection to a PC. The latest live version froze a few times when I was testing out different ebook formats, but it seems stable in routine use (on a 1GB card). This is definitely the way to go if you want to give OI a spin on your Hanlin. Keep a paper clip handy to reboot via the reset hole on the back if necessary (the reboot will take you back to the Hanlin firmware, as will selecting reboot under OK -> scripts). If you like it, then by all means switch to the permanent firmware and use a stand-alone card reader to get content onto your SD card.

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