Kobo Start Menu 09

[tshering]

Originally Posted by ItalianUruguayan

Is there any way to add custom menu entries, like the nickel/koreader/pbchess/plato ones?

Put a script with a name like "my_special_script.sh" into .adds\kbmenu_user\scripts. This will create the menu entry "my special script.sh" under (ksm main) > "user scripts".

[ItalianUruguayan]

Originally Posted by tshering

Put a script with a name like "my_special_script.sh" into .adds\kbmenu_user\scripts. This will create the menu entry "my special script.sh" under (ksm main) > "user scripts".

Thank you very much

And is there any way to specify the icon of each entry? I would like to add some icons to them.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by cvarrick

Touch in the KSM menu is not working on my H20v2 ("snow",).

I am sorry to hear this.

Originally Posted by cvarrick

The web interface does work so I am happy to provide any debug from that interface.

Let us see whether KSM does identify the device correctly. Press the button "basic info" and see the values for PRODUCT and PRODUCT_ID.
Then check which touch driver KSM is trying to use. Type/copy

echo "$ksmroot/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/$mousedriver"

into the white input field and press the button "execute". The expected result is "/adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so".
Next check whether the driver is available, by executing

ls -l "$ksmroot/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/$mousedriver"

[cvarrick]

Originally Posted by tshering

Let us see whether KSM does identify the device correctly. Press the button "basic info" and see the values for PRODUCT and PRODUCT_ID.

PRODUCT=snow, PRODUCT_ID=unknown, CPU=mx6sll, PLATFORM=mx6sll-ntx,
WIFI_MODULE=8189fs, WIFI_MODULE_PATH=/drivers/mx6sll-ntx/wifi/8189fs.ko
uname=Linux (none) 4.1.15-00104-gcd6a6a6 #9 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 15 15:40:03 CST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux, FW=4.6.10197

I can see that PRODUCT_ID is set by getmodelnr.sh which reads /mnt/onboard/.kobo/version, which is this:

N867832001697,4.1.15,4.6.10197,4.1.15,4.1.15,00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000378

So PRODUCT_ID = 378

Then check which touch driver KSM is trying to use.

/adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so

Next check whether the driver is available,

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         26180 Apr  2 19:19 /adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so

[ItalianUruguayan]

tshering, sorry if I'm making too many questions. I am trying KSM for the first time and I am really curious on how things work. If you don't have time to reply to this just ignore me.

I have seen that KSM seems to have a basic HTML renderer in order to show the pages downloaded by wget. Is that true? And if so, how is that renderer invoked? Is it a standalone binary? If I wanted to run that renderer independently of KSM, would it work?

EDIT: Is kbmessage the binary I'm looking for?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by ItalianUruguayan

Thank you very much

And is there any way to specify the icon of each entry? I would like to add some icons to them.

You can. But you have to create the menu entries yourself. This is an example:

selection=$($ksmroot/kobomenu.sh give_me_coffee:gear.png give_me_tea:execute.png )
case $selection in
  give_me_coffee )
   // Do here something, for instance call a script that orders coffee.
  ;;
  give_me_tea )
   // Do here something, for instance call a script that orders tea.
  ;;
esac

You can only use icons that are embedded in the binary file "kobomenu." You can see a list of all available icons by calling menu_icons.sh (Call it by selecting "scripts" > "tests.msh" > "menu icons.sh"; or similar. I do not have my reader with me, and cannot remember exactly.)

[tshering]

Originally Posted by ItalianUruguayan

tshering, sorry if I'm making too many questions. I am trying KSM for the first time and I am really curious on how things work. If you don't have time to reply to this just ignore me.

I have seen that KSM seems to have a basic HTML renderer in order to show the pages downloaded by wget. Is that true? And if so, how is that renderer invoked? Is it a standalone binary? If I wanted to run that renderer independently of KSM, would it work?

EDIT: Is kbmessage the binary I'm looking for?

kbmessage is the binary. It is not standalone, but dependent on several libraries. These libraries are borrowed from the pbchess package. So you would have to copy it from there or from KSM, and to export several variables containing the paths to libraries, plugins, fonts.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by cvarrick

PRODUCT=snow, PRODUCT_ID=unknown, CPU=mx6sll, PLATFORM=mx6sll-ntx,
WIFI_MODULE=8189fs, WIFI_MODULE_PATH=/drivers/mx6sll-ntx/wifi/8189fs.ko
uname=Linux (none) 4.1.15-00104-gcd6a6a6 #9 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 15 15:40:03 CST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux, FW=4.6.10197

I can see that PRODUCT_ID is set by getmodelnr.sh which reads /mnt/onboard/.kobo/version, which is this:

N867832001697,4.1.15,4.6.10197,4.1.15,4.1.15,00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000378

So PRODUCT_ID = 378

/adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         26180 Apr  2 19:19 /adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so

This is interesting. Your device has a different hardware from what we knew. Maybe we can try whether the non-h2o2 touch driver works on your device. I will try to post something this night (central european time).
Do you use the webinterface via wifi or usbnet?

You said you updated to the newest FW. Can you tell me your affiliate?

EDIT: I describe how to easily check whether your device works with the non-H2O2 touch driver here.

[bunglegrind]

just installed ksm 9.002 on my kobo aura one (firmware 4.6.9995). Then I set - as ksm 8 - tools->activate->set runmenu settings.msh->always for starting ksm at every boot.

Well, I noticed that if I don't touch any item in the ksm root menu, after 10 secs nickel is starting...

I don't use nickel, is there away to avoid such behaviour?

Cheers

[boriar]

Originally Posted by bunglegrind

just installed ksm 9.002 on my kobo aura one (firmware 4.6.9995). Then I set - as ksm 8 - tools->activate->set runmenu settings.msh->always for starting ksm at every boot.

Well, I noticed that if I don't touch any item in the ksm root menu, after 10 secs nickel is starting...

I don't use nickel, is there away to avoid such behaviour?

Cheers

It's automatic for secure reason. You know, in case the touchscreen is unresponsive. The countdown is abort when you touch the first time.
You can change the countdown in:
configure>[general]>"ksmAutoselectafter=60". One minute without touch the screen at least one time is enough IMHO. Also KSM lack of standby mode so if you forget, the device go to nickel and after some time, go to standby mode.

[ItalianUruguayan]

Originally Posted by tshering

kbmessage is the binary. It is not standalone, but dependent on several libraries. These libraries are borrowed from the pbchess package. So you would have to copy it from there or from KSM, and to export several variables containing the paths to libraries, plugins, fonts.

Thanks a lot for your thorough explanations. I have managed to make a simple calendar script with kbmessage: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3678029

Hopefully you don't mind that I packed your binary there?

[bunglegrind]

Originally Posted by boriar

It's automatic for secure reason. You know, in case the touchscreen is unresponsive. The countdown is abort when you touch the first time.
You can change the countdown in:
configure>[general]>"ksmAutoselectafter=60". One minute without touch the screen at least one time is enough IMHO. Also KSM lack of standby mode so if you forget, the device go to nickel and after some time, go to standby mode.

thank you very much for this precious information

[cvarrick]

Originally Posted by tshering

This is interesting. Your device has a different hardware from what we knew. Maybe we can try whether the non-h2o2 touch driver works on your device. I will try to post something this night (central european time).
Do you use the webinterface via wifi or usbnet?

You said you updated to the newest FW. Can you tell me your affiliate?

EDIT: I describe how to easily check whether your device works with the non-H2O2 touch driver here.

I performed the experiment and responded in the linked post.

Right now I am using web interface via wifi, haven't been able to get usbnet to work but that may be an issue with the host machine (Arch Linux).

The affiliate is "Kobo".
At one point I did sideload the latest firmware, but subsequent factory resets seem to have removed that. Current FW is 4.6.10197 and device does not see any updates available.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by cvarrick

PRODUCT=snow, PRODUCT_ID=unknown, CPU=mx6sll, PLATFORM=mx6sll-ntx,
WIFI_MODULE=8189fs, WIFI_MODULE_PATH=/drivers/mx6sll-ntx/wifi/8189fs.ko
uname=Linux (none) 4.1.15-00104-gcd6a6a6 #9 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 15 15:40:03 CST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux, FW=4.6.10197

I can see that PRODUCT_ID is set by getmodelnr.sh which reads /mnt/onboard/.kobo/version, which is this:

N867832001697,4.1.15,4.6.10197,4.1.15,4.1.15,00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000378

So PRODUCT_ID = 378

/adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         26180 Apr  2 19:19 /adds/kbmenu/Qt/plugins/mousedrivers/libKoboTS_h2o2.so

May I please see your affiliate? It is in .kobo/Affiliate.conf.

[cvarrick]

Originally Posted by geek1011

May I please see your affiliate? It is in .kobo/Affiliate.conf.

The affiliate is "Kobo".