Kobo Start Menu 09

[tshering]

Originally Posted by wackythrow

Quick question, and very sorry if you guys get this often, but I acquired a Kobo Original (non-touch screen, has wifi directional buttons on the bottom right corner) and I tried installing Kobo Start Menu without reading anything about it (yep, I'm not very smart) and It has been "booting" into the update ever since.

Is there any way to cancel the update?

Sorry, but I have not the slightest idea about the Kobo Original. I can only hope that there is some key combination to initiate a factory reset.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by cramoisi

tshering : on KA1 and gloHD , everything is ok with plato

Thank you! It is a pity you do not have a H2O2.

[cramoisi]

Originally Posted by tshering

Thank you! It is a pity you do not have a H2O2.

In fact, the choice was hard and I've been close to choose the H2O2 over the KA1 :-/ (but I can't live without a regular "Maison Ikkoku shot" and the KA1 was better for manga)

[Elaxon]

Originally Posted by davidfor

To be completely successful when restoring the database from a backup (I assume that is what you meant by "database made by calibre utilities"), the books need to be back in the same place as before. Otherwise, the first thing the device will do is compare what is in the database with what is on the disk and start removing the missing books from the database and adding the ones that aren't in the database. And you should shutdown the device as soon as you can after restoring the database and disconnecting the device.

I have done this enough times to know it works if I take care. And I have messed it up enough to now that I need to pay attention to what I am doing. Also, I don't use KSM and don't know if it would affect this, but, I wouldn't expect so if you are using a recent version of KSM.

My guess would be that if a large number of books couldn't be found, the process doing the cleanup might have been seen by sickel as hung and sickel triggered a reboot. I wouldn't have expected a continuous reboot, unless it hadn't actually removed any books from the database before the reboot happened or possibly if the database was corrupted.

Yes that is exactly what I was doing. I was transferring over the database and then it started processing the books. I think I messed up as it started deleting over 1000 books as I knew I had deleted them. My intention was to have the database with the books reading status and not the actual book link but I guess it did not work out. But I found it even easier to do what I do now and just import the reading stats with kobo utilities. It also seems that reading progress with kepubs is broken on current firmware so no big deal for me to restore the database.

Originally Posted by tshering

I am not sure what you mean by bootlooping in this context. KSM does not care about the books and the sqlite database. Therefore I guess, what you are seeing is that nickel reboots, when you call it. But this does not force you to factory reset the device. It is however different, when you configured KSM so that it calls nickel immediately after boot (a setting that is asking for trouble).

I think I do not understand what you are doing. Just for clarification, to "register with the activation thing in KSM" means to bypass activation, unless you edited the scripts so that they contain your personal data. What exactly do you "transfer over KSM"?

The database loop was probably caused by sickel. The reader was also prompting me to factory reset as KSM was not installed on that try. It said something like ereader damaged, factory reset and there were two options to either deny or accept. I have never gotten that prompt before. But I have reinstalled again successfully and it works properly now. I am just going to be wary in the future with how I handle the database backups and decided that kobo utilities restoring read stats are a much better way of doing it.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Elaxon

The database loop was probably caused by sickel. The reader was also prompting me to factory reset as KSM was not installed on that try.

I see.

Originally Posted by Elaxon

It said something like ereader damaged, factory reset and there were two options to either deny or accept.

This might indicate that the file system of the user partition was corrupt.

[gilali]

Running PLATO on H2Ov2 from KSM09
The screen is flashing once and going back to KSM. Nothing else.

Here's my crash.log

kbmenupngs/exit_nickel.png
kbmenupngs/poweroff.png
kbmenupngs/switchtokoreader.png
kbmenupngs/toggle_nightmode.png
Error: Can't create natural frontlight.
Caused by: No such file or directory (os error 2)

It may be caused by the specific led name on H2Ov2 in this post

[tshering]

Originally Posted by gilali

Running PLATO on H2Ov2 from KSM09
The screen is flashing once and going back to KSM. Nothing else.

Here's my crash.log

kbmenupngs/exit_nickel.png
kbmenupngs/poweroff.png
kbmenupngs/switchtokoreader.png
kbmenupngs/toggle_nightmode.png
Error: Can't create natural frontlight.
Caused by: No such file or directory (os error 2)

It may be caused by the specific led name on H2Ov2 in this post

Thank you for testing. I have asked baskerville to have a look at your report, and will withhold update 2 a bit longer.

[Elaxon]

Is there anything else needed to connect to telnet? As I do see http://192.168.2.101:8087/rmc_test.html on usbnet but trying to connect to telnet just says connection refused. I've tried port 8087 and the default one.

EDIT: It seems that when doing the patch that was mentioned to rename usbnet to dropbear SSH works but I can not get telnet to work still, so I can not set a password. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I managed to use the vlavsoft to set a password with the console.

I have some further question as to where fmon stores all the script that runs so I can run simulate_usb_connection from ssh and then just force the refresh from there. (I know I would have to press connect). What I was looking to do was enable SFTP over wifi and then transfer books that way and automatically refresh them.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Elaxon

Is there anything else needed to connect to telnet?

Did you enable telnet by installing KevinShort's package?

Originally Posted by Elaxon

I have some further question as to where fmon stores all the script that runs

They are in /adds/kbmenu/fmonsh.

[tshering]

As Baskerville uploaded a new version of plato, could somebody, maybe gilali, test whether KSM sets the screen orientation correctly for H202?

If it is not correctly set, could you please try to find the correct value? The simplest way, I guess, is with the help of the webinterface (cf. this thread). You would

• first "kill KSM" (do it while the device shows the KSM home)
• set a rotation value with the help of the buttons in the section "rotate"
• call plato by pressing the button "start plato as is"
• if the orientation is not correct, press "exit plato" and try another rotation value

[Elaxon]

Originally Posted by tshering

Did you enable telnet by installing KevinShort's package?

They are in /adds/kbmenu/fmonsh.

Thanks!

I was not also aware that the package was needed any longer as I checked the KSM 08 thread and I saw the telnet package but waited to install it as I was not sure it would break anything.

[ItalianUruguayan]

Thanks for your amazing work, tshering!

I am using plain nickel and I was wondering if there is any way to launch CoolReader without having to start the whole pbchess app? Since KSM has the option to do it, I was wondering how it is done there? Ideally, I would like to have a CoolReader tile that launched CoolReader, and then to return to nickel once I close CoolReader without having to rely on pbchess.

[ItalianUruguayan]

Okay, so I kinda solved my problem copying the cr3.sh and start_vlasovlauncher.sh scripts from KSM into my .kobo folder with some modifications, and making a fmon launcher to cr3.sh. This is the code I have used for each of them:

cr3.sh:

#!/bin/sh

# we could pass these value as cml parameters, but maybe for now this would be overkill
vlautorun=CoolReader
applicationname=cr3



ksmroot=/mnt/onboard/.kobo
vllauncherini=/mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft/launcher.ini
changed=false
oldautorun=
export startedAsAutorun=true;


# modify application script if necessary
if [ $(grep -c 'startedAsAutorun' "/mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft/${applicationname}.sh") -lt 1 ]; then
cat <<EOF > "/mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft/${applicationname}.sh"
#!/bin/sh
if [ "x\$startedAsAutorun" != "x" ]; then
$applicationname/$applicationname -stylesheet \$STYLESHEET
echo "exit" > \$VLASOVSOFT_FIFO1
else
exec $applicationname/$applicationname -stylesheet \$STYLESHEET
fi
EOF

fi


# modify ini file if necessary
if [ $(grep -c '^autorun=${vlautorun}$' "$vllauncherini") -lt 1 ]; then
changed=true
oldautorun=$(grep "^autorun=" "$vllauncherini")
case ${oldautorun} in
autorun=*)
sed -i "s/$oldautorun/autorun=$vlautorun/" "$vllauncherini"
;;
*)
echo "autorun=$vlautorun" >> "$vllauncherini"
;;
esac
fi


# run launcher
$ksmroot/start_vlasovlauncher.sh

# restore autorun value
if [ "$changed" == "true" ]; then
sed -i "s/autorun=$vlautorun/$oldautorun/" "$vllauncherini"
fi

start_vlasovlauncher.sh:

#!/bin/sh

ksmroot=/mnt/onboard/.kobo


case $PRODUCT in
dragon|dahlia|snow ) vlasovsoftrotate="2";;
* ) vlasovsoftrotate="0";;
esac
if [ "${vlasovsoftrotate}" != "$(cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate)" ]; then
echo "${vlasovsoftrotate}" > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate
if [ "${vlasovsoftrotate}" != "$(cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate)" ]; then
echo "$((vlasovsoftrotate ^ 2))" > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate
fi
fi
frontlightprg=$ksmroot/tools/frontlight
dontTamperwithFrontlight=${dontTamperwithFrontligh t:-"true"}

# frontligth off
[ "$dontTamperwithFrontlight" == "true" ] && [ "$PRODUCT" != "trilogy" ] && [ "$PRODUCT" != "pixie" ] &&
(
$frontlightprg "0"
[ "$KSMdebugmode" == "true" ] && echo "on start: frontlight level set to 0" >> $debug_logfile
)

# set variables
export ROOT="/mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft"
VLASOVSOFT_KSM=1
. /mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft/launcher.sh

#set frontlight for KSM
[ $PRODUCT != trilogy ] && [ $PRODUCT != pixie ] && [ $PRODUCT != pika ] && (
$frontlightprg "$KSMfrontlightlevel"
[ "$KSMdebugmode" == "true" ] && echo "before exit: frontlight level set to $KSMfrontlightlevel" >> $debug_logfile
)

And it actually -kind of- works. A tap on the CoolReader tile makes coolreader start, BUT, when I hit "close" inside CoolReader, the reader, instead of returning to nickel, freezes, and I have to restart it.

Any ideas?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by ItalianUruguayan

And it actually -kind of- works. A tap on the CoolReader tile makes coolreader start, BUT, when I hit "close" inside CoolReader, the reader, instead of returning to nickel, freezes, and I have to restart it.

Any ideas?

If you did not copy any other files from KSM, I would remove the stuff related to frontlight and debug.
I would also remove the line

VLASOVSOFT_KSM=1

And I would create a file /mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft/nickel, so that launcher.sh calls run_nickel.sh.

[ItalianUruguayan]

Originally Posted by tshering

If you did not copy any other files from KSM, I would remove the stuff related to frontlight and debug.
I would also remove the line

VLASOVSOFT_KSM=1

And I would create a file /mnt/onboard/.kobo/vlasovsoft/nickel, so that launcher.sh calls run_nickel.sh.

It works! Thank you very much! I will probably make a KoboRoot.tgz with this so that other people could use it.