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Originally Posted by Renate
WiFi is inherently more battery intensive than Bluetooth LE on both the ereader and the remote. Using a smart phone seems really pointless.
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That's quite true. Specially in Kobo, the wifi and bluetooth chip are one device, so there's really no turning bluetooth on without WiFi. As a result, running my remote with the kobo's built-in bluetooth drains the battery 3% per hour. The bluetooth device is alright, though.
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Originally Posted by Renate
I collect and build all things Bluetooth but I haven't got around to getting any 8bitDo yet.
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Oh I highly recommend it, specially for e-reader control, it has just the right amount of buttons for proper navigational features.
This picture shows the
button layout of the 8BitDo micro and I have mapped them to the following functions:
R2: Increase font size
R: Decrease font size
L2: Turn 90 degrees CCW
L: Toggle Dark/Light mode
(-): Decrease brightness by 10%
(+): Increase brightness by 10%
d-pad-up: Set bookmark
d-pad-left: go to previous bookmark
d-pad-right: go to next bookmark
d-pad-down: go to the latest set bookmark
A: next page
Y: previous page
X: previous chapter
B: next chapter
star: Toggle alt navbar (koreaner feature)
home: Turn off bluetooth and disconnect
Since I hold the remote like a car key (and it's the right size), this layout works perfectly for me. The only thing I'm missing honestly is the control of the warm lighting but I haven't cared about that enough to do something about it yet. Instead of doing brightness adjustment with - and + signs, I could probably add banks of different control commands, and I can paginate through pages and pages of different controls.
Just wanted to expand on my use case in case the original poster is interested in a real life user story.