Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[roger64]

Second battery test (wall charger)

I use koreader v2014.1-329-g2599974 from the 13th of September 2015. (OTA update)

Starting battery level: 46%
- first charging period: about 40 minutes: new battery level: 69%
- second charging period: about 45 minutes: new battery level: 93%
- third charging period: about 15 minutes: new battery level: 100%

At the end of each period, I checked the battery level before unplugging: it stayed unchanged. Every time, when I unplugged the reader, I could see after precisely six page turns, that the battery indicator was updated to the new levels (see above).

I did not notice any information (+ sign or other) about the charging process.

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

You should be able to add the wifi startup script to what KSM calls to auto select koreader. I once had that work in an "onstart" script, but I found there was no benefit and it probably wastes battery power.

I've tried adding it in different places, even injecting the wifi_enable_dhcp.sh code into other startup scripts, but so far no luck. I'm probably not understanding something basic.

I'm looking to avoid "do you want to turn on Wifi", and the subsequent delay. I'm willing to sacrifice battery life, depending on the extent. I'd have to try it and see the difference.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by ectoplasm

I've tried adding it in different places, even injecting the wifi_enable_dhcp.sh code into other startup scripts, but so far no luck. I'm probably not understanding something basic.

I'm looking to avoid "do you want to turn on Wifi", and the subsequent delay. I'm willing to sacrifice battery life, depending on the extent. I'd have to try it and see the difference.

Ok, if you insist: the easiest way is to add:

"../vlasovsoft/wifi.sh" to /koreader/koreader.sh and /kbmenu/onstart/start_koreader.sh on the first blank line before: ./reader.lua

Luck;
Ken

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

"../vlasovsoft/wifi.sh" to /koreader/koreader.sh and /kbmenu/onstart/start_koreader.sh on the first blank line before: ./reader.lua

Is vlasovsoft/wifi.sh from CoolReader for Kobo? I just followed a long trail of broken links and haven't found it. There's no wifi.sh in the vlasovsoft github repo that I can see.

[Ken Maltby]

Try here.

Sergey's download site must be down again.

Luck;
Ken

[the_doc]

Last version of KoReader is running well in my Kobo Mini with firmware 3.17.3 and the GeoffR patches. Coolreader works well too. I've installed them with the old fmon method.

[embryo]

KoHighlights is a simple utility I made to convert the Koreader's history files to simple text.
It can also batch convert many files.
Its a desktop application with a simple drag'n'drop GUI.
You can check its main thread here.
You can download the latest version here.

[Frenzie]

Originally Posted by embryo

KoHighlights is a simple utility I made to convert the Koreader's history files to simple text.

That's pretty cool.

[zyxw]

Hi gummihuhn,

same problem as you.
Do you have found an answer?

[zyxw]

Thank you for providing this wonderful koreader!

All things are working fine, but I can't download books from Calibre catalog, or from OPDS catalogs at all.

I can browse in categories and books in Calibre or Project Gutenberg catalog, but at the attempt to download I get the error "Could not save file to /mnt/sd/test/..."

Any ideas?
Thank you.

[xor_]

Originally Posted by zyxw

but at the attempt to download I get the error "Could not save file to /mnt/sd/test/..."

Any ideas?

I believe that's because /mnt/sd is mounted read-only per default. If you set the download directory to something under /mnt/onboard/ , it works. Or you could remount /mnt/sd read-write.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by xor_

I believe that's because /mnt/sd is mounted read-only per default. If you set the download directory to something under /mnt/onboard/ it works. Or we could remount /mnt/sd readwrite.

Right, I used Notepad++ to add:

#remount SD card as read/write
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/sd

to .adds/kbmenu/onstart/start_koreader.sh. Also to .adds/koreader/koreader.sh.

It goes just before the ./reader.lua line.

Luck;
Ken

P.S.; The Kobo Start Menu (KSM7) includes a script to mount the external sd card as read/write, also.

[zyxw]

xor_ ;-) and Ken
Thank you very much for the quick answer!

That was the solution.
Find koreader.sh under G:\.kobo\koreader\
(where is .adds/ ?)

BUT IT WORKS!

[xor_]

Originally Posted by zyxw

Find koreader.sh under G:\.kobo\koreader\
(where is .adds/ ?)

tshering changed the default directory for alternative software under KSM from .kobo to .adds some time ago. That way what's installed there should survive a Kobo firmware update. You might want to create that directory yourself and move koreader, etc. over there if you use a recent KSM version. (Best to read instructions in the KSM thread).

(Or just keep things as they are for as long as they work. )

[gummihuhn]

Originally Posted by zyxw

Hi gummihuhn,

same problem as you.
Do you have found an answer?

Hi zyxw,

I assume the "same problem" you are referring to is related to my most recent post
in this thread, related to Wikipedia not working. If so, the post linked in the previous sentence explains it, and the quoted text indicates that this can be fixed either by (a) the next nightly build; or (b) a manual fix via editing the file referenced by Ken.

I updated to the latest nightly build and Wikipedia is now working properly for me. (WiFi will of course need to be turned on.)

If you are referring to a different problem than the Wikipedia one (COPS perhaps?), let me know specifically to which problem you are referring.