How to keep kindle alive? without physical touch? (using xdotool)

[knc1]

Originally Posted by ixtab

However, I'm not sure how to determine when it will enter suspend mode. (Actually, does the PW ever enter it at all?). This is the relevant lines from the output in screensaver mode:

With the typical setup of one used as a development machine: Rarely if Ever.
But it can be persuaded to sleep.

Since a change in the hardware configuration will 'wake' the suspended Linux kernel, it is sometimes hard to catch it sleeping.
A hardware configuration change like the insertion or removal of the USB cable (the kernel wakes on USB events).

The best way to know if it **was** asleep is to review the dmesg kernel buffer. Which, among other things, will report how long it was asleep.

[zxczxc]

Originally Posted by ixtab

Concerning the "how did you know it was 600 seconds" - unfortunately, the property is write-only, so it won't show you its current value when using lipc-probe -v . But it could be determined indirectly, by looking at the lipc-probe output: ..........

thanks, very interesting! i really appreciate it

[silverzhao]

This command will show you the remaining time before entering screensaver mode:

$ powerd_test -s
Powerd state: Active
Remaining time in this state: 599.965714
defer_suspend:0
suspend_grace:0
prevent_screen_saver:0
drive_mode:off
Battery Level: 90%
Last batt event at: 90%
Charging: No
batt_full=0
Battery logging: On

[zxczxc]

silverzhao that is cool, thanks a lot.

a new thing, is it possible to send keyboard presses via ssh? probably not right... otherwise there would be a command that to turn pages instead of having to use something like xdotool.

but still, if the search bar on the home menu is selected, and i want to put an 'a' in that box, what could i do? any ideas?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by zxczxc

silverzhao that is cool, thanks a lot.

a new thing, is it possible to send keyboard presses via ssh? probably not right... otherwise there would be a command that to turn pages instead of having to use something like xdotool.

but still, if the search bar on the home menu is selected, and i want to put an 'a' in that box, what could i do? any ideas?

Trade in your Paperwhite on a Touch and just talk to it?
There is a package here for speaker independent, voice recognition on the Kindle Touch.

[zxczxc]

Originally Posted by knc1

Trade in your Paperwhite on a Touch and just talk to it?
There is a package here for speaker independent, voice recognition on the Kindle Touch.

no offense, but i am not interested in voice control (for kindle), it would get boring pretty fast i can imagine
although yes... i could do everything i want on my k3 since that has buttons i can just make use of... that's an idea. i'll charge it up!

[shane blade]

Old post, but I just found this:
powerd_test: Utility to test powerd
Options:
s : Print status
i : Simulate input event
p : Simulate power button pressed event
h : Simulate power button held event
l : Simulate low batt low event
d <value> : Set defer sleep property to given value
r : Simulate a random series of events at random intervals.
Max interval is 10s by default.
b<optional>: Set fake battery level if a value is provided. Remember to
there is no space between b and value. If no value is
provided, it interactively accepts values from you and sets
fake battery level
t <value> : Max interval between events in seconds.
Valid only when used with -r
NOTE : Only one of i,p,d, b and r can be used at one time

So simulating a touch with -i might be the easiest way (eg from inside a script)

[knc1]

Originally Posted by shane blade

Old post, but I just found this:

powerd_test: Utility to test powerd
Options:
  s          : Print status
  i          : Simulate input event
  p          : Simulate power button pressed event
  h          : Simulate power button held event
  l          : Simulate low batt low event
  d <value>  : Set defer sleep property to given value
  r          : Simulate a random series of events at random intervals.
               Max interval is 10s by default.
  b<optional>: Set fake battery level if a value is provided. Remember to
               there is no space between b and value.  If no value is 
               provided, it interactively accepts values from you and sets
               fake battery level
  t <value>  : Max interval between events in seconds.
               Valid only when used with -r
  NOTE       : Only one of i,p,d, b and r can be used at one time

So simulating a touch with -i might be the easiest way (eg from inside a script)

'code ... /code' tags can make that more readable.