Thread: Looking for a hackable e-reader with touchscreen for app development
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Old 04-20-2020, 05:46 AM   #13
shawly
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Raspberry Pi, Arch Linux for ARM and a 3rd party eink panel. There are some small eink Shield style panels for the Pi that would work as a dashboard. Maybe even the stock Linux Rasperian.
There are no e-ink panels with touch support that can interface with an RPi, at least I didn't find any. Just some replacement screens for Kobos and getting them to work with a Pi would require me to engineer a display controller. So it's not an option, also the whole setup would be bulky, ugly and couldn't be simply stuck to my fridge door. Also the hardware costs more than a Kobo Aura.

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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
No amount of wishful thinking will enable the 2.4Ghz only kobo wifi chip to see any 5GHz smart devices.
but some people will keep obsessively trucking on - like the deluded fools still trying to get bluetooth audio to play on a kindle - its like training octopuses to predict the next world cup - but train enough octopuses & who knows...
Who said I want to connect 5GHz smart devices to my Kobo? It's simply connected to my 2.4GHz wifi and has to display HTML from a local webserver hosted on my home server.

It's only purpose is to display a simple static page with info about room temps and shopping lists, as well as a simple text field which can send new entries to the shopping list.

I never planned on running any resource intensive animated dashboard with all the bells and whistles, it's main purpose is to provide an interface on my fridge where I can add stuff to my shopping list and display some simple info that doesn't need to be updated in real time. Also the info should only update if I tap on the update button to refresh the page.

The Kobo's experimental browser can do that, it even supports full screen so I can run the dashboard in Kiosk mode.

Here somebody even wrote a native app that displays similar stuff:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=322162

I know I could use a tablet, but the main benefit of e-ink readers is their power consumption. I don't have to charge it for weeks if wifi is only turned on for updating the dashboard, a tablet will drain in less than a week even if wifi is off.

So maybe you could stop acting like I'm talking about rocket science and be a little less salty.
Last edited by shawly; 04-20-2020 at 05:48 AM.
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