Buttons issue

[StephenQueen]

Well I don't expect for many people to have messed around with this...

Touch HD 3 has a feature to pair with external buttons so you can turn page with bluetooth external keyboard/gamepad or what else it accepts to pair with.

It's working nice with the stock reading software, but isn't with koreader.
does anybody know how to make koreader to be aware of the emulated key presses?.

[pazos]

You need to know which keycodes are being emited and create a custom keymap. See https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Keymapping

It should work with any bluetooth HID

[StephenQueen]

Thank you for your tip, but for any reason It din't work.
If I understood correctly I had to create the file koreader/settings/event_map.lua
containing the assignations to the keys...

I've been playing with this, that was what I understood:


Return { [1] = "LPgFwd", [272] = "LPgBack", }

I tried too

Return { [1] = "LPgFwd", [272] = "LPgBack", }

And any combination of them, but did't work

Thankyou anyway

[StephenQueen]

Can anybody tell me how to turn on koreader verbose mode, to try to figure out what is happening?

[StephenQueen]

Well after activating verbose mode I see that koreader is aware of the keypresses but it does nothing with them, so, I assume I'm doing bad the key assignation...

01/22/22-15:15:07 DEBUG AutoTurn: onInputEvent
01/22/22-15:15:07 DEBUG input event => type: 42 (nil), code: 272, value: 0, time: 1642860907.940239
01/22/22-15:15:07 DEBUG AutoStandby:onInputevent() instance= table: 0xa0263548
.
.
01/22/22-15:15:08 DEBUG AutoTurn: onInputEvent
01/22/22-15:15:09 DEBUG input event => type: 40 (nil), code: 1, value: 0, time: 1642860909.112940
01/22/22-15:15:09 DEBUG AutoStandby:onInputevent() instance= table: 0xa0263548

[pazos]

I'm afraid it is a bit more complex than that because Pocketbook. Needs tweaking in
registerEventAdjustHook

ie: asign event.type to C.EV.KEY for given types. Then its a matter of adding keycodes to event_map

The constants used by inkview are in https://github.com/koreader/koreader.../inkview_h.lua.

Apparently 40 is EVT_TOUCHUP and 42 is EVT_TOUCHMOVE. That doesn't make much sense

Anyhow: patches welcome. Don't expect the feature anytime soon unless a new maintainer appears in the wild and wants to tackle this.

My bad for giving you hopes. I expected something trivial as in android.

[StephenQueen]

Bad luck
Anyway, thank you for your time