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peterson · 11-27-2015, 02:55 PM

Forums are great, esp. this one - learned so much. However it is a big pain to find anything in large forums as the search will almost always bury the good threads/posts under an avalanche of "I am trying to do ..." and long discussions that already require a lot of background information (or are simply useless). As I mostly use my Kindle for reading and only hack on it once a year, I tend to forget many details - and am unable to find them again. Point in case, it took me (only) 15 minutes to find the USBnetwork package for PW2 (or rather I found the one for Touch/PW1 though when downloading it there's a PW2 version).

Anyway. Sorry for the rant. Spent half the day searching for stuff ;-)

For now I will assume that on my particular PW2 and never-to-be-updated-firmware the event device will stay the same :-) I could not find another post mentioning using /dev/input/eventX for Kindle, however I found https://github.com/koreader/koreader...dle/device.lua where the correct device is listed for many Kindle devices. I will revisit this issue if I manage the actual goal (remote controlled page flipper, so I will either need to get USB OTG working, or find the internal USB host, or get bluetooth connected to the serial port).

11-27-2015, 02:55 PM	#6
peterson Connoisseur Posts: 74 Karma: 889004 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle PW2	Forums are great, esp. this one - learned so much. However it is a big pain to find anything in large forums as the search will almost always bury the good threads/posts under an avalanche of "I am trying to do ..." and long discussions that already require a lot of background information (or are simply useless). As I mostly use my Kindle for reading and only hack on it once a year, I tend to forget many details - and am unable to find them again. Point in case, it took me (only) 15 minutes to find the USBnetwork package for PW2 (or rather I found the one for Touch/PW1 though when downloading it there's a PW2 version). Anyway. Sorry for the rant. Spent half the day searching for stuff ;-) For now I will assume that on my particular PW2 and never-to-be-updated-firmware the event device will stay the same :-) I could not find another post mentioning using /dev/input/eventX for Kindle, however I found https://github.com/koreader/koreader...dle/device.lua where the correct device is listed for many Kindle devices. I will revisit this issue if I manage the actual goal (remote controlled page flipper, so I will either need to get USB OTG working, or find the internal USB host, or get bluetooth connected to the serial port).