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Originally Posted by pascal jakobs
Hello all,
I'm about to choose a e-ink reader in order to use it as a display (only console no X) for my raspberry pi via USB (as it was possible when kindle was still "rootable" http://www.okinteresting.com/2018/10...iy-kindle.html) Your package provides root, usbnet, sshd and I need a terminal as well (pbterminal??). Inkpad 3 pro is very attractive for me, As anybody ever tried such test, do you think is could be possible?
Thanks for your help |
There's even remoteink app that works a bit like that too (it uses custom protocol and win32 client). On PB, you don't technically need root to access fb device (on kindle, you definitely need it), as everything has a write access to it.
If I were to run a rig like this, I'd probably try to get X running though. Xorg has somewhat usable support for eink fb, and all unix apps running elsewhere could leverage the screen with decent transport protocol. You can also configure the server to pull keyboard and mouse I/O from off-device as well, or even bluetooth or OTG host.
As for pbterm and such, typing on the screen is not very usable due to lag. It's more of a last ditch thing if you can't ssh into it for some reason (no root, no other device to ssh from etc).
As for Kindle, there is technically root for it assuming you get one with factory fw. But dealing with that is something I'd not recommend unless you're very familiar with it, as the tooling for that is currently rather shoddy.