Simulating input on KV via SSH

[tommyderami]

After implementing the awesome workarounds to get a jailbreak working on a 5.6.5 KV (thanks to everyone who made that possible!) I have been tinkering around with trying to get a remote page turn functionality to work which has been done in a few other cases

see http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/sh...=118480&page=4
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/arc.../t-215558.html
etc.

All of these work by using a script or nc etc to call something along the lines of echo "send 191" > /proc/keypad

Since the KV lacks the keyboard seen on a K3 or other models, would it be possible to pipe a command to the /proc/touch with coordinates to simulate a finger press to advance or step back a page? I searched and wasn't able to find anything like this being done for at KT2.

Any thoughts?

[knc1]

Yes.
or send something to the appropriate (whatever that is) event chain.

Sounds like you get to develop it.

I think there are a few posts around here (somewhere) about simulating events on the touch devices -
I can't think of any hints to give too make them easier to find though.

[NiLuJe]

I think there's still a 'dumb' procfs entry somewhere that accepts plaintext input, but you'd have to dig a bit to find some examples (in the debug scripts and/or diags scripts, most likely).

That, or there's a test command or lua script somewhere that does the job?

[tommyderami]

Thanks for the reply, I'll post back when I find a decent solution!

[aconicq1]

xdotool might do the trick. Search for xdotool on the forum, copy over the libraries and the file. You might have to link the libraries using:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/location/of/libraries

then run the following in the command line:
path/to/xdotool mousemove X Y click 1
where X and Y are coords - so 400, 400 to go page forward on pw2.

...but this doesn't work with koreader only native Kindle

[knc1]

In case you didn't notice -
The post you are answering is dated: Feb. 2016 and it is now Feb. 2017