Aura ONE Kobo Aura One owners thread

[JFeole]

If you use Calibre, you may want to look athe the: Calibre Content Server, which allows you to download your ebooks wirelessly to the KA1. See: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

[fafaforza]

My Aura One can be a bit finnicky with sync, a little more reliable with charging but I still wiggle the cable. And it's happening with cables I have labeled specifically as ones for the reader (some micro USB cables are charge only, so I label data ones that worked in the past).

I would imagine any shop that repairs smartphones and tablets could solder a new port. You might lose the water seal, but that's a small price to pay.

For syncing, I just run the Apache web server on my laptop, then just use the web browser under the Beta features. I set http://192.168.1.3 as the homepage, my laptop's assigned WiFi IP, so it comes up automatically without having to type an address. It works for PDFs, ePubs, whatever. I haven't synced via USB in ages. I don't want to overuse the port.

[fafaforza]

Here's my simple Apache httpd.conf file if anyone goes this route. It can likely be stripped down a lot.

DocumentRoot is where you specify where the books are, SRVROOT is where the Apache bundle is. I think I have the apachehaus.com bundle.

I then just execute bin/httpd.exe whenever I need it. You can also run it all the time as a Windows service.

Define SRVROOT "C:\Users\user\Downloads\Apps\Apache"
ServerRoot "${SRVROOT}"
Listen 80
ErrorLog "logs/error.log"
LogLevel warn

LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so

<IfModule unixd_module>
User daemon
Group daemon
</IfModule>

ServerAdmin admin@example.com
ServerName localhost:80
<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

DocumentRoot "C:\Users\user\Downloads\books"
<Directory "C:\Users\user\Downloads\books">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
	IndexOptions NameWidth=*
	IndexOptions HTMLTable
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

<Files ".ht*">
    Require all denied
</Files>


<IfModule log_config_module>
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

    <IfModule logio_module>
      # You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
    </IfModule>

    CustomLog "logs/access.log" common
</IfModule>

<IfModule mime_module>
    TypesConfig conf/mime.types
    AddType application/x-compress .Z
    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
</IfModule>

# Fancy directory listings
Include conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf

# Real-time info on requests and configuration
Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf

# Configure mod_proxy_html to understand HTML4/XHTML1
<IfModule proxy_html_module>
Include conf/extra/httpd-proxy-html.conf
</IfModule>

[serwei]

did anyone notice their KA1 e-ink contrast dropped with recent firmwares? I used KOreader and managed to get a lot of it back, but I use Overdrive so wondering if there's a hack or patch to max out the black again, like the old frmwares.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by serwei

did anyone notice their KA1 e-ink contrast dropped with recent firmwares? I used KOreader and managed to get a lot of it back, but I use Overdrive so wondering if there's a hack or patch to max out the black again, like the old frmwares.

Just for the heck of it, I powered on my old KA1 and the display looks as good as it did when it was my goto ereader even with the 4.38.21908 firmware.

Have you tried reverting to an older firmware version to see if that improves the contrast? If not, that could suggest that your display is deteriorating.

[Rid]

Originally Posted by serwei

did anyone notice their KA1 e-ink contrast dropped with recent firmwares? I used KOreader and managed to get a lot of it back, but I use Overdrive so wondering if there's a hack or patch to max out the black again, like the old frmwares.

I think mine may be getting worse.... The backlight colour could be changing too.

Edit: Sorry in my case I think the screen might be the issue. It probably has been degrading for a while and I have only now thought it was an issue - because of your post, most likely not the firmware.

[serwei]

Thanks for sharing! It did feel like a deterioration where the polarity magnet has weakened... impossible to fix lol? A bit sad as it was a gift from my wife.
It looks like a really faded gameboy screen. sigh...