Kobo Start Menu 07

[libertango]

Originally Posted by tshering

Maybe we are talking about different things. frontlightOnLevel=4 is supposed to set the intensity of the front light. Possible values are 0 to 100.

If by "set the frontlight at boot" you mean to switch the front light on. You can change in usersettings.txt

## auto select
ksmAutoselectafter=20
ksmAutoselectoption=start_nickel

## auto select
ksmAutoselectafter=1
ksmAutoselectoption=front_light_on

I would like to make this change, but I suspect that I would lose the security net of nickel autostart in case of problems in displaying KSM. Do you confirm this?
My obvious aim is to switch on the ereader in the night whitout turning the lights on to look at the menu.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by libertango

I would like to make this change, but I suspect that I would lose the security net of nickel autostart in case of problems in displaying KSM. Do you confirm this?

I confirm this, but there is as second security net. If you insert an sd on which there is a file autoscript.sh into the reader this script will get executed. You could for instance start nickel by the script, or connect the device via usb to your pc, or activate usbnet or wifi and telnet into the device, or ...

There is another possibility. You could add in usersettings.txt the line

$frontlightprg "$frontlightOnLevel"

at some place, but in any case below frontlightOnLevel=Some value.

[pickyaxe]

Is there any way to get switchtokoreader.png to work on Kobo Aura H2O? Currently it behaves like exit_nickel.png.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by pickyaxe

Is there any way to get switchtokoreader.png to work on Kobo Aura H2O? Currently it behaves like exit_nickel.png.

switchtokoreader.png is expected to work only if nickel was started by nickelkoreaderloop.sh or koreadernickelloop.sh. Or are you saying that it does not work, even though you start with nickelkoreaderloop.sh or koreadernickelloop.sh?

[pickyaxe]

Originally Posted by tshering

switchtokoreader.png is expected to work only if nickel was started by nickelkoreaderloop.sh or koreadernickelloop.sh. Or are you saying that it does not work, even though you start with nickelkoreaderloop.sh or koreadernickelloop.sh?

I was using start_nickel. start_nickel_koreader_loop indeed works, and even works with ksmAutoselect. Thanks for the help.

[pickyaxe]

Sorry for asking another question, but...
I'm having a problem with this bug that suddenly appeared.
If Nickel is started from start_nickel or startnickelwithoutfmon, the Nickel library is loaded correctly. If Nickel is started from nickelkoreaderloop or koreadernickelloop, the library is not loaded - instead, the only entries in the library when booted that way are the pngs inside root/kbmenupngs/
Is a factory reset my only option?

EDIT: I forgot to mention, a temporary solution is to eject and reinsert the SD card, this immediately loads the library, but the library is 'unloaded' again the next time the device is restarted with nickelkoreaderloop or koreadernickelloop.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by pickyaxe

Sorry for asking another question, but...
I'm having a problem with this bug that suddenly appeared.
If Nickel is started from start_nickel or startnickelwithoutfmon, the Nickel library is loaded correctly. If Nickel is started from nickelkoreaderloop or koreadernickelloop, the library is not loaded - instead, the only entries in the library when booted that way are the pngs inside root/kbmenupngs/
Is a factory reset my only option?

EDIT: I forgot to mention, a temporary solution is to eject and reinsert the SD card, this immediately loads the library, but the library is 'unloaded' again the next time the device is restarted with nickelkoreaderloop or koreadernickelloop.

Do you have any books at the internal sd? Or are all books on the external sd. Maybe the sd is unmounted for some reason after exiting koreader, and that is why you cannot see the books that are on the external sd. I usually do not use an external sd. I will do some experiments tomorrow.

[pickyaxe]

Originally Posted by tshering

Do you have any books at the internal sd? Or are all books on the external sd. Maybe the sd is unmounted for some reason after exiting koreader, and that is why you cannot see the books that are on the external sd. I usually do not use an external sd. I will do some experiments tomorrow.

Thank you. All the books are on the external card, exactly because of how many times I've had to factory reset since I've started using this device.

[tshering]

pickyaxe, please extract start_nickel_fromloop.sh from the archive and copy it into .adds\kbmenu\onstart, then reboot the device.
Thank you for reporting the bug.

[valris]

Can we make the buttons "update" and "partial update" more descriptive. I always forget what they mean, because i use them so infrequently.

It is a bit annoying to search the thread for the explanation every time there is a new release.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by valris

Can we make the buttons "update" and "partial update" more descriptive. I always forget what they mean, because i use them so infrequently.

Please propose something that is more descriptive. It should be short (so that it can be fully shown in one line of the screen) and must not contain punctuation marks, dashes, slashes. Cf. the posts 896 up to 872 of the old KSM thread.

Originally Posted by valris

It is a bit annoying to search the thread for the explanation every time there is a new release.

Wouldn't it be easier if you selected "info" in the update menu?

[tshering]

update 2 available in the first post!

[Elaxon]

If I already had installed night mode and reboot with pngs would I need to uninstall it to enable it using configuration menu or is that not necessary?

edit: The nightmode I was using before does not work with the png file I used to use, do I need to reinstall nightmode or how do I proceed?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Elaxon

If I already had installed night mode and reboot with pngs would I need to uninstall it to enable it using configuration menu or is that not necessary?

That should not be necessary.

Originally Posted by Elaxon

edit: The nightmode I was using before does not work with the png file I used to use, do I need to reinstall nightmode or how do I proceed?

It should not be necessary to reinstall nightmode. Could you provide some more information? What does "before" mean. Was the night mode working under KSM 07 and stopped after installing upgrade 2? Or did you upgrade from KSM 06 directly to KSM 07 including the two updates?

Edit: I looked at the sources, and now I remember. The last version that fully supported toggling night mode by png was KSM 04. In KSM 06, I already removed the toggle_nightmode.png, and in KSM 07, I removed the corresponding code. But, of course, Mini user have no other chance to toggle it. To restore this function, please copy nightmode.sh from .kobo to .adds\kbmenu\fmonsh and rename it to toggle_nightmode.sh (so that you have .adds\kbmenu\fmonsh\toggle_nightmode.sh). Next time, you start nickel, it should work, provided kbmenupngs\toggle_nightmode.png is available.

[embryo]

First, thank you for the update.
The 'configure' option is a very nice addition!

I was trying the 'Rotation' option and the result is not actually a toggle but more like a "Rotate +90°".
With the first press goes to +90°, with the second to +180°, third to +270° and forth to 0°.

Just an observation ...