New "VNC" viewer for Kobo devices and firmware

[noobyme]

I got it working on Kobo Nia. Sad though can't see pointer and gnome screenshot has an animation effect now which delays how fast it can take screenshot.after googling Perhaps better to use scrot. But Wierd thing is I can't get both scrot or gnome screenshot to include pointer from the cmd line. Why is this?

Also doable via windows too? Using putty? If only there was a cli screenshot tool

[noobyme]

Okay actually scrot screenshot with pointer does work after all

[noobyme]

Replace 'gnome-screenshot - p' with 'scrot - p /tmp/continuous.png - - overwrite' et voila

[noobyme]

Originally Posted by noobyme

Replace 'gnome-screenshot - p' with 'scrot - p /tmp/continuous.png - - overwrite' et voila

This breaks the http version though not sure why

[elinkser]

Did you try ananchovy's rust vnc client?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums//s...d.php?t=348481

It is even newer.
It's amusing though to see NiMa's humble beginnings, now that he went on to help produce an entire OS (InkBox).

[noobyme]

Originally Posted by elinkser

Did you try ananchovy's rust vnc client?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums//s...d.php?t=348481

It is even newer.
It's amusing though to see NiMa's humble beginnings, now that he went on to help produce an entire OS (InkBox).

I'll have to give that a try thanks for leading me there! Google never showed me that when I looked for use kobo as e ink monitor

[elinkser]

You never know - this older project could end up working out better for you, so I don't think your effort was wasted.

Szybet gave a demo of his mirroring app which had video mirroring performance the rust vnc client couldn't match, but the rust vnc app performed well at small screen disturbances, e.g. making changes in an editor.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=358558

[Szybet]

just to note about this rust vnc app

I couldn't make it to work. A Inkbox developer who knows rust. Trust me I tried everything. Maybe the nia is cursed with this one but I haven't seen any device specific problems.

[noobyme]

Originally Posted by elinkser

You never know - this older project could end up working out better for you, so I don't think your effort was wasted.

Szybet gave a demo of his mirroring app which had video mirroring performance the rust vnc client couldn't match, but the rust vnc app performed well at small screen disturbances, e.g. making changes in an editor.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=358558

What do you mean QUOTE=elinkser;4397124]You never know - this older project could end up working out better for you, so I don't think your effort was wasted.

[baptx]

I made the kobodisplay.sh script work on Kobo Aura but I did some things differently to make it work properly.
In landscape mode, the screenshot was not displaying at a corner of the screen so I had to use portrait mode instead. When executing the script in portrait mode, I also had to invert the width and height so for the width I added 758 and for the height 1024.
Then I had to edit the script to do a rotation of 90 degrees of the screenshot and also used the scrot command mentioned by @noobyme to avoid the screenshot blinking of gnome-screenshot on my laptop (I read we cannot disable it unless recompiling gnome-screenshot: https://askubuntu.com/questions/8543...lash-animation).
So the last line of the script I used looks like this:
while true; do scrot -p /tmp/continuous.png --overwrite && convert -rotate 90 /tmp/continuous.png /tmp/continuous.png && sshpass -p test scp /tmp/continuous.png root@$ip:/tmp ; done

[noobyme]

Okay because I'm a noob when I first used this I had no clue about anything, coming back here a while later, for the next noobs who come here the reason it's so slow is because fbink options used were asking for full refresh, I thought it was a hardware limitation. U want to ask fbink to do "fbink -W A2 -g file='.',w=1024,h=1024". Waveforms determine the speed of your refreshes. Option h k and f means will ghost less but be slow af. A2 is the fastest waveform

[noobyme]

Originally Posted by Szybet

just to note about this rust vnc app

I couldn't make it to work. A Inkbox developer who knows rust. Trust me I tried everything. Maybe the nia is cursed with this one but I haven't seen any device specific problems.

i didnt know how to get it working bc i didnt understand vnc ip address and port meaning at the time, but anchovy's vnc cli tool does work for nia too, i noted that elinkser had to use droidvnc, same thing applied to me, when i used tightvnc i couldnt get it to connect
"cannot initialize VNC session: failed to fill whole buffer"
hmm idk what i did differently, seems i messed up first time round i got it partially working on windows tightvnc and x11vnc linux on nia but with same problem, i got it to connect without the failed to whole buffer error instead connection is successful but display is only showing movements rather than the screen itself, ie i can only see the mouse moving and nothing else except maybe small snippets of the change in screen, i see theres some apple references in the code i wonder if author is a mac user and tested on that.

[JSWolf]

Does VNC work with the current firmware versions and the new devices?