Any way to keep a persistant clock while reading?

[twobob]

meh so I did it to show what I meant.

a learning exercise now if you can be bothered to read...

tl; dr: The extension is below.


It displays at the top.
It just parses the log and shoves up a time when the page is triggered.

I re-factored all the external scripts out and made it a one hit wonder.

PHP Code:

#!/bin/bash
if [ -d /sys/devices/platform/mxc_epdc_fb/graphics/fb0 ]
    then
PLATFORM="$(cat /sys/devices/platform/mxc_epdc_fb/graphics/fb0/modes)"
    else
PLATFORM=""
fi

echo $PLATFORM

if [ ! -d /sys/devices/platform/mxc_epdc_fb/graphics/fb0 ] then
# it's probably something ancient

    if [ ! -e /proc/fiveway_wake ] ; then
        echo "k2 or something detected"

# This next part says, "Clear Log" then 
# "Push the new log, line by line, into awk" then 
# "If a certain line is matched by awk get awk to run eips via the shell"

        &> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -f /var/log/messages | \
awk '/.*PageAction*./ || /.*acxmgrd*./ || /.*NextPage*./ || /.*Reader*./ {system("eips 20 0 `date +%T`")}   '

        exit 0
else
        echo "k3 or k4 or something detected"

        &> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -f /var/log/messages | \
awk '/.*PageAction*./ || /.*acxmgrd*./ || /.*NextPage*./ || /.*Reader*./ {system("eips 20 0 `date +%T`")}   '
        exit 0
    fi
fi

if [ -d /sys/devices/platform/mxc_epdc_fb/graphics/fb0 ]
    then
    if [ "$PLATFORM" != "${PLATFORM/758/}" ] 
        then
        echo "PW detected"

        # eips 25 41 `date +%T`"   Would be middle bottom offset from amazon readout on a PW, we went with top middle.  
        &> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -F /var/log/messages | exec parselog | \
awk '/.*PageTurnAction*./ || /.*JunoExecutionManager*./  {system("eips 20 0 `date +%T`")}  '
        exit 0
    else
        # it's something else, probably older
        echo "Generic detected"

        &> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -F /var/log/messages | exec parselog | \
awk '/.*PageAction*./ || /.*PageTurnAction*./ || /.*acxmgrd*./ {system("eips 20 0 `date +%T`")}  '
        exit 0
    fi
fi 


Should work. Probably needs love on some devices with the showlog -f matches. feedback and testing happily accepted.

Enjoy.

If you want the display in a different place on a certain device just fiddle with the X Y on the eips.
(1st two parameters)

CHANGELOG:

0.1 First release.
0.2 Added: "PageTurnAction" to Kindle Touch matches to handle Amazon revision changes.
0.3 Switched to bash for comparison, added dir test.

[Huku]

twobob,
you have no idea how happy you made me. Going to try this tonight! Thank you!

[elchamaco]

I tried it, changed the values the max low position seems to be the 41 as you say in the script but it crosses with the text using kaznelsoft margins hack.

It's possible to show only Hour and minutes?
It's possible to put the clock in a lower position?

Great job.

I answer myself the first question, change %T for %H:%M to see Hour an minutes but not seconds.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs...ties/date.html

[Huku]

Yep, working on Kindle Paperwhie 5.4.2 :-) :-)
Is there any way to change the font of the displayed time to smaller? (just going to play a little bit with the position)
On my device clock is shown only when I go to next page. If I go to previous page it is not shown. Not a big deal just mention.

Aslo have the overlap problem.

[NiLuJe]

@elchamaco: 1024 / 24 == 42; and it's 0 indexed, so, nope.

@Huku: No. Think of it as a bitmap font.

To fix it would require a more complex solution. (ie. a real clock app overlay, or an insane hack based around IM generated transparent png [scratch that, eips doesn't handle alpha]).

[twobob]

That's why I put it at the top.

No way to change the eips sizes that I know of.

it might be possible to output to the framebuffer via a different. much tidier method. like a custom c app that uses some other backend to render the text. Cairo?

Like I said, horrible hack.

[twobob]

hmm... maybe the framebuffer could be moved slightly, written to, and moved back. but it would look horrific ;D

[Huku]

Thanks guys.
It also overlaps when on the top (even more). I am going to put it again at the bottom - the overlap there is smaller.
I found a small problem (not sure if small). My device is PaperWhite but it is detected as "k2 or something detected" :

if [ ! -e /proc/fiveway_wake ] ; then

echo "k2 or something detected"

echo "" > /var/log/messages; tail -f /var/log/messages 2>/dev/null | \
awk '/.*PageAction*./ || /.*acxmgrd*./ || /.*NextPage*./ || /.*Reader*./ {system("eips 40 0 `date +%H:%M`")} '
exit 0

I mean this portion of code is the one that affects the clock when I make changes. Which is probably the reason for showing the clock only when page forwards but not on page backwards.

[twobob]

oh.

[ -d /sys/devices/platform/mxc_epdc_fb/graphics/fb0 ] && echo "PW"

does that work? in a shell?

[Huku]

hm... not sure how to run shell here :-(

[twobob]

For now: just remove all the other "IF"s since you know what you want...

Ill post it here,.

PHP Code:

#!/bin/bash

&> /var/log/messages && 2>/dev/null tail -F /var/log/messages | exec parselog | \
awk '/.*PageTurnAction*./ || /.*JunoExecutionManager*./ {system("eips 20 0 `date +%T`")}' 


just run with that.

remove everything else.

I'll think about why that might happen at some point, but that would fix it for now - to only work on a paperwhite, dumbly, without detection.

Just edit the file: /mnt/us/extensions/showtime/bin/showtime.sh
or <THE_KINDLE_ON_YOUR_PC>/extensions/showtime/bin/showtime.sh

You can run stuff directly in the backend using nilujes usbnet modification via kual or directly.from its installer. (session pictured via wifi)

[twobob]

Okay I updated the main thing. hopefully its more robust now.

works on my stuff. For what thats worth.

I have no margin hacks as you can see which tbh, works fine for me.
Sorry eips is not the perfect answer for this job, some swanky injection would be, but we all know how amazon feel about that.

Given minimum effort this is a working solution for me. I was just hoping to draw a few more people into tinkering with the works, it's really not that tricky.

There are certainly more involved solutions that could do a better job however POC of how to attach to each page turn with some crappy text is as far as I go I'm afraid.

[twobob]

Niluje? Can you ImageMagick up some swanky time png with transparent background? programagically.

Then we could just use the eips (also utterly broken) graphics capability to mangle it over much more precisely. Just a thought. You being Mr. Python and everything. ooh ooh ; lets OR it with the framebuffer, make it psychedelic.

I can see how easy it would be to spend a long time on this... oh yes..

Then I think we should implement encrypted unix sockets for remote Page-Turn time logging... heh.

Beowulf clustered

[knc1]

better yet, an animated gif using the numerals from Predator 2.
well, one of those movies that displayed numerals as bar patterns (base 8?).

Edit, yes, Predator 2 - see the "Hanging On" clip from the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LI.../vi2731737113/

[NiLuJe]

@twobob: I tried. I can generate an appropriately sized & laid out transparent PNG with a single IM call (in ~1s, because drawing text is expensive), but eips -g doesn't handle transparency, so, poof, black screen xD.

EDIT: Meh. Did that on the desktop, not the laptop, and it's currently booted on Winshmooze. I'll pull the call from my history next time I reboot.