Hello all,
Feeling lost ? Don't know where to begin ? Me too... So I want to make a guide for begginers in kobo hacking. Here what I understood yet. Please correct me/add missing stuff. I'll try to make is as complete as possible.
I don't care about coding stuff. I just want a better reading software
There's currently 2 open source reader available : KOreader and Plato.
Both can be installed really easily following
these instructions .
I want to go deeper into the rabbit hole
First of all
The factory firmware/reader is named Nickel. It's based on Linux.
An open source OS is under development and available only for a few device. It can be found
here.
How to launch custom stuff
There's currently two way to do so :
Nickel menu : A custom launcher. It adds a new menu on your reader from which you can launch custom shell script.
KFmon : This launcher add a "book" for each script. This way you can launch the script as if you open a book.
What custom stuff can I launch
Search on this forum. There's a list
here and a
package there with a lot of stuff
How can I create custom stuff
If you're really badass, you can code an app using Qt.
Then you'll have to download the firmware version your reader is running on. Patch it following these
instructions . This way you'll be able to install it on your reader.
An other way to do so, is creating an sh script.
Then use you're favorite launcher to execute it.
You can test it using ssh or telnet (see the package above). I don't know at all how to do so. Didn't find a guide/try it myself yet.
For output, you can use
FBink. It's a library to print stuff on your screen.
For user input/interface... I have no idea yet. Does anyone can help me on that ?
In the above package is also included python. I didn't tried it yet but is there a way to output stuff ? Use tkinter for user interface ?
As you can see, I'm still missing a lot of stuff. First of all : where do I find this edit button ???
Please help me fill in the holes
