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Originally Posted by geek1011
Kobo eReaders don't run android.
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You have a point there.
Google made a few changes to the Linux-like kernel.
It's not really "Android" because it's running underneath the Android subsystem.
I have an English Bluetooth keyboard and a Russian Bluetooth keyboard.
I can grab either one and it just works (without any language selection) on my Androids.
I don't think you can do this with most straight Linux systems, can you?
You could also modify your reader app (even in Kobo) to respond to VolUp or Enter (the usual two keys on $1 clickers).
As I said, the clickers with EEPROMs are easy to hack.
I bought a dozen Chinese clickers a while ago and they were the ones without EEPROMs.
If anybody knows a source for the ones with EEPROMs.
OTOH, most selfie clickers time out in under a minute.
A page can be longer than a minute if you end up thinking.
I've run into problems trying to stretch that out.
In the end I opted for completely custom hardware/software.
An article about $1 clicker hacking:
https://hackaday.com/2016/09/14/hack...etooth-device/
Ha! I reread that article and it reminded me of another problem with badly written clickers.
They present themselves as full keyboards.
On Android that means that on-screen keyboards will not pop up by default (although there is an option now) while you are using a clicker.
The option causes problems too because on-screen keyboards will then pop up when using a regular Bluetooth keyboard.
When I write my USB HID descriptors I make it clear that they can't send A-Z or 0-9 so it won't be confused with a "keyboard".