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Originally Posted by frostschutz
It could also be done through WiFi, possibly using the GoPro remote controller so you'd have a hand-held, wireless device. It's a bit too expensive to just buy it on a lark. Also, it has a short battery life and keeping WiFi always on drains the Kobo rather quickly, too.
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Reviving this vaporware
thread for no reason at all other than that I got myself a new toy. Bought a Wemos D1 mini + button shield. Cost me 12€ but if you order from China it's like $5 + shipping. This is a tiny board with Wifi and, after some
soldering, a single button added on top. You click the button and the Kobo flips to the next page.
It still needs a power supply... there is a battery shield available for this board but it'd have doubled the cost for me (plus you'd have to buy a battery that fits) so instead I just used a portable charger. Turns the whole thing into a kind of nunchuck wireless page turning controller.
Downsides: huge battery drain on the kobo due to always-on wifi, wemos needs programming (so it knows to fire off a network packet when the button is pressed), everything is hardcoded (wifi ssid, password, kobo IP, ...) so it only works at home.
These can be solved [wemos could host its own wifi network and kobo just connects to that so it'd work everywhere, in return you'd lose internet connectivity] but ...
I'm lazy.
Maybe next year.