KindleLazy - remote control page turns + brightness

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by jabingb

I'm stumbling around with the goal of implementing a remote page turner, where should I be researching this? I presume by your answer I will need to do the hardware serial procedure?

Yes, the serial port is your only option.

[jabingb]

Can you point at the best link for that modification?

[hius07]

Originally Posted by jabingb

Can you point at the best link for that modification?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...96#post4010696

[Op88]

Hi all,

Will this work with a dongleless bluetooth remote? Will this also work on a Kindle Oasis 2?

Thanks!

[eddington]

The original post should be edited--the Amazon link you provided doesn't work anymore.
Edit: I guess this doesn't work with bluetooth after all.
Can anyone recommend a remote that works with PW4?

[Jocom]

PW4 Jailbreaked in 5.13.7, KUAL installed, not working about page turner when I did authur's steps. The blue light flashes 3 times meaning OTG receiver no response.

[katadelos]

Originally Posted by Jocom

PW4 Jailbreaked in 5.13.7, KUAL installed, not working about page turner when I did authur's steps. The blue light flashes 3 times meaning OTG receiver no response.

USB OTG mode doesn't work on the PW4 (or any of the Rex Kindles?) at all - the dr-mode of the USB port within the device tree (/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sll-rex.dts
) is set to peripheral. It might be possible to change the mode and generate a new DTB but it's hard to test this at the moment as the newer Kindles are so heavily locked down.

[arooni]

Originally Posted by Op88

Hi all,

Will this work with a dongleless bluetooth remote? Will this also work on a Kindle Oasis 2?

Thanks!

Piggybacking on this question to ask the same thing and also:

1. Would it work with the official Boox bluetooth remote (and no dongle on the Paperwhite)?
2. Would this work on a jailbroken PW4?

[tminer]

Originally Posted by katadelos

USB OTG mode doesn't work on the PW4 (or any of the Rex Kindles?) at all - the dr-mode of the USB port within the device tree (/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sll-rex.dts
) is set to peripheral. It might be possible to change the mode and generate a new DTB but it's hard to test this at the moment as the newer Kindles are so heavily locked down.

Does that mean only kindle pw3 or older can run kindle lazy? That's really unfortunate. Is guess it should try to find a spare before it is impossible to find them.

[katadelos]

Originally Posted by tminer

Does that mean only kindle pw3 or older can run kindle lazy? That's really unfortunate. Is guess it should try to find a spare before it is impossible to find them.

Pretty much - it might be possible to run it on later devices up to KT3 (i.e before Lab126 started to heavily lock their devices down) if anyone ever manages to work out how to get USB OTG working on anything later than PW3.

[tminer]

Originally Posted by katadelos

Pretty much - it might be possible to run it on later devices up to KT3 (i.e before Lab126 started to heavily lock their devices down) if anyone ever manages to work out how to get USB OTG working on anything later than PW3.

is there anyway to know if a kindle firmware is low enough to run kindle lazy or just any PW3 will do?

[katadelos]

Originally Posted by tminer

is there anyway to know if a kindle firmware is low enough to run kindle lazy or just any PW3 will do?

Any jailbroken PW3 will work, the firmware version is irrelevant - the only thing that's important is the kernel version.

[tminer]

Originally Posted by katadelos

Any jailbroken PW3 will work, the firmware version is irrelevant - the only thing that's important is the kernel version.

Sorry i meant to ask if any PW3 can be jailbroken or do i need to pay attention to the model number to know if its firmware is low enough to jailbreak.

[katadelos]

Originally Posted by tminer

Sorry i meant to ask if any PW3 can be jailbroken or do i need to pay attention to the model number to know if its firmware is low enough to jailbreak.

All PW3 devices can be jailbroken in some way. I'd advice trying to find a device running 5.13.3 or lower so that you can use KindleBreak but if that's not an option, you can still jailbreak it via the serial port.

[mrevent]

I was wondering if I could use a simpler connection method with the help of KindleLazy: I don't need a wireless option, a cable connection is fine enough: Cable with volume controls on for earbuds/earphones, in my case.

I remember doing that quite easily (in presumably kindlepdfviewer at least) almost a decade ago with a Kindle Keyboard: As the Ereader device had volume buttons and an audio port as well, I could plug-in an earbuds cable and use the volume buttons for turning the pages...

Currently, if I use a converter (as in the image) to insert the headphone cable to the micro-USB port of a Kindle Voyage (having no volume buttons on the device itself, as you know...), would the KindleLazy enable me to do the same? How about a Kindle 5? Or would anyone be aware of a program that would make that possible?




Thank you!



Edit: Sorry, apparently, USB OTG Mouse support would be a better thread for such a post. Feel free to delete unless this note may direct others to the correct thread.