Patch for auto-mounting when plugged to USB?

[frostschutz]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

Nope, my phone connects as a media device (Samsung Galaxy S4)

Oh, right. There was that option.

I prefer real USB mass storage devices, though.

Originally Posted by boriar

It make appear the usb message without connect it actually

Ah, okay. I guess that would be the opposite of what the OP wanted, though.

Originally Posted by davidfor

I assume Google Drive on Kobo Touch does it.

Okay. I already knew it could be done for the external SD card, but not everyone uses one. Now that mod has the gall of emulating a virtual external SD card in that case. Wow. Only I don't see how it works when actually using a real card. Oh well.

It probably won't update for changes on the internal memory though. Just plugging in an SD card does not seem to do that for me...

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Ah, okay. I guess that would be the opposite of what the OP wanted, though.

Right, but it seems that is what you asked for.

Originally Posted by frostschutz

It's possible to upload files through wifi, if you have a FTP server running. Unfortunately the Kobo does not know about those uploads and does not update its database.

[frostschutz]

Yes - but only if you upload them to the ext. SD card.

Of course you could just... make the internal SD card the virtual external one, and the real external one a subdir of the virtual external one. But that'd kind of put a cramp into things.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Yes - but only if you upload them to the ext. SD card.

No, nickel behaves the same way as if the device would actually be disconnected from a pc: it scans the internal sd for newly added files. The script is:

echo usb plug add >> /tmp/nickel-hardware-status
sleep 5
echo usb plug remove >> /tmp/nickel-hardware-status

[frostschutz]

Originally Posted by tshering

echo usb plug add >> /tmp/nickel-hardware-status
sleep 5
echo usb plug remove >> /tmp/nickel-hardware-status

OK. That pops up the USB connection dialog (which you actually have to confirm). And if you do that the Kobo crashes because the filesystem is unmounted (normally udev handles mounting but without a real usb event it's missing). So you have to do that in your script as well, and at the right time.

the code I was referring to is this

echo sd add /dev/mmcblk1p1 >> /tmp/nickel-hardware-status

which (probably) makes it rescan the external SD but not the internal one

And I haven't found a nickel-hardware-status event that would just make nickel go update directly, without involving a dialog... and that's the missing link for the feature the OP asked for

Anyhow... probably too much effort for such a minute detail hehe

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

OK. That pops up the USB connection dialog (which you actually have to confirm). And if you do that the Kobo crashes because the filesystem is unmounted (normally udev handles mounting but without a real usb event it's missing). So you have to do that in your script as well, and at the right time.

Why does it crash at that moment? Wouldn't this only happen if there is writing or reading form the file system?

[frostschutz]

The dialog (if you confirm it) umounts it. And it's not [automatically] remounted afterwards, since the real USB event that triggers this (outside of nickel, through udev scripts) is missing. So you have to extend the script to make the mounts work.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

The dialog (if you confirm it) umounts it. And it's not [automatically] remounted afterwards, since the real USB event that triggers this (outside of nickel, through udev scripts) is missing. So you have to extend the script to make the mounts work.

Sorry, while you were answering, I changed my post. However, as I see it,

echo usb plug remove >> /tmp/nickel-hardware-status

triggers the remount.