Native FBInk: Another small tool to print crap on your screen!

[nari]

Originally Posted by Marek

It's included in the hotfix

I have already jailbroken k3, should I uninstall it?

[glmatt]

Thanks for FBInk — it made this possible.

I've turned a Kindle 4 Non-Touch into a wall-mounted weather panel. Clock, current conditions, the next six hours and tomorrow's forecast, all drawn with FBInk (K3 build) on the 600x800 screen. Icons are PNGs generated offline and placed with -g, with -X for pixel-accurate positioning next to the temperature.

The part that took longest wasn't the drawing: the K4's system curl is built against OpenSSL 0.9.8j and caps out at TLS 1.0, so every modern API refuses it. Your Python package (2.7.10 with OpenSSL 1.0.2d) solved it — the device now fetches from Open-Meteo over TLS 1.2 on its own, no server involved.

Writeup and code here, in case it's useful to anyone else on a K4:
https://github.com/glmatt/kindle4-weather-station

GPL-3.0, documented in English and Italian.