To programmers: help for a little "battery Report" app improvement

[Aeris]

Hi there!

I'm not a programmer so I need a little help for a Kual App...

I really like the Battery Report app (it is the only one that shows me the battery charge percentage at the moment)... but I don't like one thing of it: it creates a status text report in the documents folder and you must check it from here, like a book.

I'd really prefer not having these information logged, or at least not in documents folder, and automatically displayed on the screen for a while (as "Back Door Lock -> Lock state" does, for example).

Can anybody help? Thank you!

Link to Battery Report:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=11

Link to Back Door Lock:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=25

[brianinmaine]

I don't see an automatic display in the back door hack, but in this line:
mv $LOG '/mnt/us/documents/'$RPT'.txt'
just change it to:
mv $LOG '/mnt/us/'$RPT'.txt'
and it won't show up as a book. you can still read it if you want by sshing in or whatever.

[Aeris]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

I don't see an automatic display in the back door hack, but in this line:
mv $LOG '/mnt/us/documents/'$RPT'.txt'
just change it to:
mv $LOG '/mnt/us/'$RPT'.txt'
and it won't show up as a book. you can still read it if you want by sshing in or whatever.

Thank you, I'll change the folder with this hint. But ssh isn't too much handy xD I'd like to waste less time possibile to know how much battery power is left, I'm used to check it quite often...

The script used from Back Door Lock to display the status is named lockstat.sh

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Aeris

The script used from Back Door Lock to display the status is named lockstat.sh

And does not work consistently across the various devices/firmwares.

Although your welcome to find/fix its problems and submit the changes.

[Aeris]

Yes I know... it was just an example. I only would like to have the battery file report shown instantly when i press the Kual app link, also an "hello world" approach would be great for me if I was be able doing it xD

[ixtab]

eips 1 2 "Hello World"

Yes, I know that this is an extremely short example... But it's the command that you want. Now you only need to find out how to make it display what you want to display, and adjust the x and y coordinates (in the above example:x=1, y=2) to suit your need.

Learning by doing!

PS: You can also use

eips 1 2 "Hello World" -h

for inverted text color (white on black), if that suits you better.

[knc1]

And what you want displayed is the output of:

gasgauge-info -c

perhaps with some leading and/or trailing text.

I think that Amazon's gasgauge-info script already munges the percentage sign into the numeric string on all firmware versions,
If so, then

eips 1, 2 `gasgauge-info -c`

With changes in the x, y starting position of your choice should 'just work'.
Note: Those are back-ticks, not single quotes.

And since it is a single command, you don't need a bin/shell-script.sh to get it done, just put it as the 'action: ' in the menu.json of your new button.
(Unless the version-2 KUAL parser broke that feature. The version-2 parser is a bit annal in the things it will accept.)

[twobob]

I may have something for that... *rummages around*

[Aeris]

Ahah it a bit sh*tty but it works, thanks xD But if i change the x and y doesn't display at all o.O

Does it leave a terminal opened after executing the command? (I'd like it to close after showing me what I want). I've tryed to append:

sleep 5
exit

but didn't work

[twobob]

OSD thingy. Not shitty. Well... less shitty..

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=222781

[NiLuJe]

Wee, everyone tried something different, so, here's my take, with eips

Tested on a K2/3/4/Touch/PW/PW2 .

@knc1: What's the issue and and on which devices with Backdoor Lock's eips calls?

PSA: All downloads have been moved to the Snapshots thread!

[Aeris]

Thank you all guys, you are so kind! I think that aOSD will be useful to me, Twobob! Only have to understand how make it work with terminal outputs and not simple strings..

Niluje, that's exactly what i wanted to do! Thank you

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by Aeris

Thank you all guys, you are so kind! I think that aOSD will be useful to me, Twobob! Only have to understand how make it work with terminal outputs and not simple strings..

Well... exactly like the above examples did: either using $(command) or `command` to use the output of executing command, or by piping it in like twobob did: echo "Hello world" | ... aosd_cat ...

There are more possibilities, but all of them are "standardized", so once you know how to use them, you can apply that for pretty much any situation. You should find information about these in any decent shell programming tutorial.

hth

[Aeris]

@ixtab: Perfect! I hope to make some nice kindlet too, soon or later Now I've something to start with!

@niluje: I've modified something (eips) to make it show better on kindle paperwhite (don't know on others...)

[NiLuJe]

@Aeris: I was wondering if centering it wouldn't work better .

I have a bit of something that auto-centers eips calls somewhere, let me try something...