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Originally Posted by stumped
just go build it already, then we can all acknowledge your genius.
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Salty much.
You seemingly haven't grasped the concept of hacking devices and developing homebrew.
Of course the device wasn't designed for this purpose, but that doesn't mean it can't do it just because you think it can't without any real base for your assumption.
The first gen Kobo hardware isn't even comparable to the one of the Aura, they made massive improvements with the Kobo Touch over the first gen.
I could monitor a fuckton of devices in real time depending on how it's implemented, for example if I aggregate all information within a single REST API which the Kobo can access over a single request in real time easily. Developing apps for such devices isn't about how capable the device is, it's about how you can work around it's limitations. So telling someone something isn't possible, even though you have no clue about what is possible, is just narrow-minded.
But like I already said, I don't need nor do I want a real time monitor, as the beauty of e-ink lies in it's low power consumption since the display requires no power for displaying static content.
Monitoring stuff in real time would require the display to refresh the content in real time as well, also the wifi would need to be turned on constantly and the battery would probably drain quickly and then it wouldn't be any different from using a tablet.
This dashboard app isn't much different from what I wanna achieve, so we already got our "genius" right there.