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Received the cover today. It doesn't work. The reader doesn't go to sleep. (It did with some of the other covers I've tried, but it was unreliable.)
It took me 15 minutes to get the reader to be recognized in Windows 10; I had to finally resort to USBDeview, a third party, unofficial utility, to remove the USB port assignments to the Kobo to get it to be recognized.
Kobo Desktop is impossible to work with on a high-DPI screen, by the way. It doesn't respect the scaling settings in Windows. After setting it up by clicking on the tiny buttons, it took some 20 minutes to download the firmware and five books from my (Dutch) Kobo account.
And in the end, it all comes to nothing. The cover doesn't work.
Conclusion: compared to a Kindle, setup is bothersome. Buying third party covers for an Aura ONE is hit and miss. Drinking a bottle of single malt whisky a week is cheaper than trying to find a cover (or a firmware) that make the sleep function work reliably.
I've tried five covers now, and all firmwares since the reader's release.
I've had enough of this. The cover will be returned when convenient, and I'll put the reader up for sale. I'll stick to my old 6 inch Kindle. Maybe I'll replace the four year old battery, so I'll have 8 weeks of battery life again.
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