Kobo Start Menu

[valris]

Hi, i still have the problem that i can't start nickel. So i backuped everything offsite and want to reset the kobo to a factory state.

How can i do that? With KSM the reset button at the bottom only restarts the device. And i can't reset it (for obvious reasons) in nickels settings menu.


EDIT: Found the answer: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...37&postcount=4

[tshering]

I once announced that I will upload a version of the usb enable script that identifies the device in the same way as nickel does, but evidently forgot doing so. Having been reminded by this post by Jellby, I am providing the script now.
Copy usb_enable_id_like_nickel.sh to .kobo\kbmenu\scripts_intern\usb. This is for KSM 06.

[norbusan]

Hi Tshering,
I finally came around to switch from the fmon method to your KSM, very nice, great work.

At the moment I can start the vlvasoftlauncher and from there pbchess, but I would like to see pbchess directly in the KSM, is this possible?

Thanks

Norbert

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by tshering

I once announced that I will upload a version of the usb enable script that identifies the device in the same way as nickel does, but evidently forgot doing so. Having been reminded by this post by Jellby, I am providing the script now.
Copy usb_enable_id_like_nickel.sh to .kobo\kbmenu\scripts_intern\usb. This is for KSM 06.

It is the same size as the one I downloaded on 1\8\2015.

Luck;
Ken

[tshering]

Originally Posted by norbusan

Hi Tshering,
I finally came around to switch from the fmon method to your KSM, very nice, great work.

At the moment I can start the vlvasoftlauncher and from there pbchess, but I would like to see pbchess directly in the KSM, is this possible?

Thanks

Norbert

I cannot try it myself right now, since I do not have my Kobo with me. In an earlier version of KSM, one could call Coolreader directly from the main menu. It worked, or so I thought. It turned out that opening the light adjustment menu or changing the srcreen refresh interval causes the device to freeze (The discussion is somewhere around posts 257, 274 and the follow up posts).

If you like to experiment, here is how you could start. Create startpbchess.sh

#!/bin/sh
export ROOT=/mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft
cd $ROOT
. ./setvars.sh
export QWS_DISPLAY=Transformed:KoboFB:Rot90

# make the temporary directory for Qt
mkdir -p $TMPDIR

# make fifo
mkfifo $VLASOVSOFT_FIFO

$ROOT/pbchess/pbchess -qws

rm $VLASOVSOFT_FIFO

Place the script file for instance into .kobo/kbmenu/scripts/, and start it by selecting (KSM main menu) > scripts > startpbchess.sh.
If it works, we can include it into the main menu.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

It is the same size as the one I downloaded on 1\8\2015.

Luck;
Ken

Sorry Ken, but I do not understand what you are telling me.

[Heiderose]

Originally Posted by tshering

This is only for KSM version 06!
Purpose: activate side loaded dictionaries.

After installation, go to "tools > activate > activate dictionaries msh"

As for the illustrating images, you will notice that I overdid the "modifications for bad eyes" quite a bit. This has nothing to do with KSM. The first image shows the "activate dictionaries msh" screen, the second image shows the report that was shown after I executed "activate all."

Since this will make changes to the database, you might consider backing up .kobo\KoboReader.sqlite, before trying this.

EDIT: I removed the archive here, and included the content in KBStartMenu_06_update01b.zip, which you can find here.

Hello,
first of all let me thank you for your excellent program. I was so frustrated about my new Kobo Aura H2o having no folder and Koreader was not running until installed the Kobo Start Menu... So I'm very happy about your program.
But now I have a question about activating new dictionaries. I have installed KMS 6 and the respective update (V 2014.11.19) but there is unfortunately no point "activate dictionaries msh" - only "activate device.sh"

[tshering]

@Heiderose

I am glad you like KSM.

When making the update package, I shifted the dictionary activation script to another location (but forgot to change the description). It should now be available via

tools > kobo diverse.msh > activate dictionaries.msh

[boriar]

Originally Posted by tshering

@Heiderose

I am glad you like KSM.

When making the update package, I shifted the dictionary activation script to another location (but forgot to change the description). It should now be available via

tools > kobo diverse.msh > activate dictionaries.msh

I don't find it. I have KSM 06+update on H2O FW3.12.0 and some items that you mention in that thread are not present, like that option and nightmode option. I installed last one from KSM04 and work like a charm.

Thanks for your excellent work.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by boriar

I don't find it. I have KSM 06+update on H2O FW3.12.0 and some items that you mention in that thread are not present, like that option and nightmode option. I installed last one from KSM04 and work like a charm.

Thanks for your excellent work.

Things have changed a lot between different versions and sub versions. I possibly lost track of some details, and some things I remove on purpose. I will look into the dictionary activation tomorrow again. Right now, I cannot recall the nightmode option at all, I will look into that also.

[tshering]

For test purposes, I upload here a package that provides random selection of the poweroff screen image.
After installing the package, select "scripts > poweroff.sh" in order to test how it works. For this test package I borrowed the images from the kobolauncher sleep folder. They are now in .kobo/kbmenu/poweroffimages. You can replace them by your own jpg or png files. The file names must not contain spaces.
If you are content with the results of your testing and wish to use it for real, copy the file poweroff.sh from kobo.\kbmenu\scripts to kobo.\kbmenu\onstart (replacing thereby the original poweroff.sh file).

This is only for KSM version 06.

Edit: It is preferable if the ratio of the images corresponds roughly to the screen ratio, the actual dimensions are not so important. Real large images might possibly cause problems. I tried 2136x2848 / 3 MB images without problem.

[Elaxon]

I wanna ask if the start nickel issue is fixed on H20 latest firmware? As when I tried to use it before it was just stuck and kept restarting. I checked that I don't have koboupdate in kobo or anything else for that matter.

[boriar]

I don't have any problem starting nickel (H20-3.12.0). All options from menu go very well. The only thing that don't go like expected is the icon to launch koreader (swichtkoreader.png) from inside nickel. I don¡t know way. Well, don't know if run_test_scrip.png run correctly because i don't know what script is supposed to run.

[boriar]

@tshering:
When I touch some option in any menu all same menu appear again but moved downwardly and over the original. I can see one line of the first copy and seems like i have touched other option. It's really annoying.
Can you tell if is a fail or run well?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Elaxon

I wanna ask if the start nickel issue is fixed on H20 latest firmware? As when I tried to use it before it was just stuck and kept restarting. I checked that I don't have koboupdate in kobo or anything else for that matter.

No, it is not fixed. Some H2O owners experience this issue, others do not. I do not know what causes this issue.

It might help if some experienced user who sees this issue, could launch nickel via telnet and read the error message, cf. this post.