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mobad · 01-19-2011, 11:05 PM

While I won't claim to know how the Kindle judges what should be indexed and what has already been indexed, I have a feeling that a constantly updating file will probably trigger the indexer and would probably decrease your battery life.

A bit off topic but while looking for other interesting commands in the Kindle I found that arecord can record sound from the built in microphone (doesn't seem like anyone else has mentioned it.)

Just run "arecord -f dat test.wav" then "aplay -f dat test.wav" to try it out.

Anyway back on topic.
The method I'm going to use is text to speech as there are not any simple ways that I know of to display text on screen (One could use launchpad to do so possibly) and will need the launchpad program https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97636

Install launchpad then create a file called percent.ini in the launchpad folder containing:

[Actions]
;; run TTS Percent
Shift P = !/mnt/us/launchpad/scripts/percent.sh TTS_Percent &

Next create a file called percent.sh in launchpad/scripts containing:

#!/bin/sh
say "The battery is at $(gasgauge-info -s)"

Now just chmod +x percent.sh.

Now just hit "Shift Shift P" whenever you want to hear the percentage remaining.

01-19-2011, 11:05 PM	#12
mobad Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 23 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi	While I won't claim to know how the Kindle judges what should be indexed and what has already been indexed, I have a feeling that a constantly updating file will probably trigger the indexer and would probably decrease your battery life. A bit off topic but while looking for other interesting commands in the Kindle I found that arecord can record sound from the built in microphone (doesn't seem like anyone else has mentioned it.) Just run "arecord -f dat test.wav" then "aplay -f dat test.wav" to try it out. Anyway back on topic. The method I'm going to use is text to speech as there are not any simple ways that I know of to display text on screen (One could use launchpad to do so possibly) and will need the launchpad program https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97636 Install launchpad then create a file called percent.ini in the launchpad folder containing: [Actions] ;; run TTS Percent Shift P = !/mnt/us/launchpad/scripts/percent.sh TTS_Percent & Next create a file called percent.sh in launchpad/scripts containing: #!/bin/sh say "The battery is at $(gasgauge-info -s)" Now just chmod +x percent.sh. Now just hit "Shift Shift P" whenever you want to hear the percentage remaining. Last edited by mobad; 01-20-2011 at 05:23 AM.