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Originally Posted by tsowell
Hi everyone,
I've written a little plugin (using the wonderful NickelHook) for Kobo eReaders that allows the use of arbitrary Bluetooth devices for turning pages. I've been using it with a Kobo Libra 2 and an 8BitDo Zero 2 controller, but I think it should work with other Bluetooth-capable Kobo eReaders, and you can configure which Bluetooth input events trigger page turning.
Device configuration is unfortunately quite manual. You need to find the Linux input events you want to use as triggers and put them in a configuration file, but that at least only needs to be done once per device.
The code is here: https://github.com/tsowell/kobo-btpt
Installation and usage instructions are in the README, and you can grab a pre-built KoboRoot.tgz from the releases page: https://github.com/tsowell/kobo-btpt/releases
If anyone gets a chance to try it out, let me know how it goes. PRs are also welcome.
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Tom |
I'm very intrigued in this project. I purchased a $20 Bluetooth presentation device off Amazon that worked initially to turn pages except the Kobo kept dropping the BT connection if I took too long to read a page. Then I'd have to dig back into the settings to reactivate the pairing. Too much work! Also, the pairing period became shorter and shorter, so I eventually returned the device.
I suspect the cheap device was at fault. How long do devices stay paired using your utility?