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We ended up going the bluetooth route, and no. But we came to this conclusion before the Kobo remote got released, so things might've changed since.
This ended up as my brother's project, and he got it to the "proof of concept" stage, he had custom hardware set up and pages were turning, but there were a lot of issues in the process. He found a bluetooth page turner plugin for Nickel that seemed ok, but the options for KOReader itself just did not work out. They had rough software setup and were not practical to use, or did not work at all. One that worked, had a bug that obliterated battery life (battery lasted about 1 day, when normally we get a week or more).
After the battery life thing, he just kinda put it off to the side, since motivation was pretty low by that point and the benefit didn't seem to outweigh the sanity cost.
Might take another look at some point, the KOReader side of things might be better now that the Kobo remote exists, and we haven't checked the state of bluetooth page turner integration since shelving this project.
Also, I am working on designing a 3D printable case for the Kobo Clara Colour (since the OEM "sleep cover" is... bad) so if this becomes viable, I can probably cram a bluetooth page turner in there somewhere. But if it's using bluetooth already, might as well make it a separate device.
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