Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[NiLuJe]

Okay, I finally managed to repro the Wi-Fi failures on the Elipsa (turns out you really had to boot with Wi-Fi down to expose it).

Fixed it in https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/8057

[koboje]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Okay, I finally managed to repro the Wi-Fi failures on the Elipsa (turns out you really had to boot with Wi-Fi down to expose it).

Fixed it in https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/8057

Wow! Thank you so much!!!!!!

[Uncle Robin]

After installing the latest Kobo firmware update, when I went to start KOReaer, I got an error message I did not see after the only other firmware update I've installed since starting to use KOReader. Do I have to reinstall KOReader from scratch, and will I lose all my settings?

[pazos]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

After installing the latest Kobo firmware update, when I went to start KOReaer, I got an error message I did not see after the only other firmware update I've installed since starting to use KOReader. Do I have to reinstall KOReader from scratch, and will I lose all my settings?

You need to reinstall kfmon, not KOReader.

Anyways, reinstalling KOReader is safe. Your settings are not contained in releases so there's no risk of overriding them.

When in doubt use NiLuJe installers for Kobo.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by pazos

You need to reinstall kfmon, not KOReader.

Anyways, reinstalling KOReader is safe. Your settings are not contained in releases so there's no risk of overriding them.

When in doubt use NiLuJe installers for Kobo.

How do I install kfmon? I used the one-click KOReader installer originally. A big part of the appeal was the idea of having it persist through firmware upgrades, which it did not do this time.

[NiLuJe]

The OCP script handles the KFMon install package just fine for that very reason .

NickelMenu/KOReader/Plato persist through updates just fine.
KFMon doesn't, for safety reasons (an unexpected behavior change in Nickel could otherwise result in a boot loop).

You can either:

* Run the OCP install script on one of the full packages again, as reinstalling KOReader/Plato is effectively harmless.
* Run the OCP install script on the KFMon install zip archive only.
* Switch to a pure-NM setup (the config files are installed in the .nm folder, with the relevant entries commented out).

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

The OCP script handles the KFMon install package just fine for that very reason .

NickelMenu/KOReader/Plato persist through updates just fine.
KFMon doesn't, for safety reasons (an unexpected behavior change in Nickel could otherwise result in a boot loop).

You can either:

* Run the OCP install script on one of the full packages again, as reinstalling KOReader/Plato is effectively harmless.
* Run the OCP install script on the KFMon install zip archive only.
* Switch to a pure-NM setup (the config files are installed in the .nm folder, with the relevant entries commented out).

Thanks. A couple of questions, especially as I have been thinking of doing a full NM install recently:

Is there a 1-click NM install?

If KFMON does NOT persist through firmware upgrades and because of that my KOReader is inaccesible after a firmware upgrade, do the settings and customisations persist, and is is this also true of NM?

[NiLuJe]

All the OCP packages bundle NM, and any and all custom configs are unaffected by anything short of a factory reset .

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

All the OCP packages bundle NM, and any and all custom configs are unaffected by anything short of a factory reset .

This is going to be yet another shocking reveal of my ignorance, but anyway:

I used the KOReader OCP ro reinstall and my KOReader is back, yay! How do I get all the other NM features mentioned in the NickelMenu thread? My NickelMenu menu has one item on it

[NiLuJe]

By... setting up NM as you like it? (i.e., read the Documentation linked at the bottom of the very thread you linked to) ;o).

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

By... setting up NM as you like it? (i.e., read the Documentation linked at the bottom of the very thread you linked to) ;o).

Find the answer myself by putting in some time and effort? What kind of barbaric nonsense is THAT?

[Hopper333]

I'm not sure when this started happening, perhaps from an update a few months ago? I thought it might fix itself but it hasn't. Anyway, my history is frozen in a certain state and opening new books does not add them to the history. If they were a long way back in the history they stay there rather than coming to the front as they should.

This is surprisingly annoying as the history feature is very useful when you have several books on the go.

Where should I look to solve this? I can connect to a terminal but I'm not sure where history should be stored. I have seen talk of a /history folder but can't see it. Also talk about .sdr files which are present for some books but not others.

Is it a permissions problem? A setting on koreader? Has something become corrupted? Can I reset the history? (will be annoying to lose settings but not as annoying as no history!).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Kobo H2O with a koreader just updated and restarted through wifi and OTA update this afternoon, but no change. All books are on a SD card. Please ask if you need any more information.

Many thanks

Michael

[NiLuJe]

@Hopper333: Is the date/time sane on your device?

[Hopper333]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@Hopper333: Is the date/time sane on your device?

Thanks for the tip, I will check. Is that better done in koreader or nickel? I have synced the time a number of times but I should check what it is now.

[Hopper333]

Originally Posted by Hopper333

Thanks for the tip, I will check. Is that better done in koreader or nickel? I have synced the time a number of times but I should check what it is now.

I think that was all it was! I feel like an idiot now.

Anyway, thank you.