Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[mirage]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

There's an alt status bar setting in the right-most tab of the bottom menu. (Long-press to make default.) But it depends on crengine, so it won't work in other file formats like PDF, DjVu and CBZ.

Thanks. As mentioned, I've used that, but it only gives me one status bar, not both. I read that the upper one is deprecated or something close to it. But I did have both and can't recreate it. It's OK. I have adequate other ways to get the same data displayed.

[NiLuJe]

@guissmo: Use the install script, it takes care of this automatically.

And don't unplug your device, just eject it, to limit the risk of USB shenanigans.

Unsurprisingly, c.f. The Fine Manual for all the gory details.

[pickyaxe]

Just wanted to say thanks to NiLuJe for the recent improvements to Wi-Fi. Huge improvement for my use. I use Wikipedia a lot, and update the firmware often, and there used to be so much manual work to get it to connect, and then some more manual work to make sure it doesn't stay connected and kill my battery (though gestures help with these). Now everything is just automated.

[Frenzie]

I'll second that. I'd trained myself to turn on wifi with a gesture before doing something and then to turn it off afterward. Part of the problem that kept me from addressing it more appropriately is that it's a pretty big pile of hacks to wrap your head around, especially with all the various devices involved. That makes it one of the rare issues that isn't primarily about time.

[NiLuJe]

Happy to help, I kept repeating "we can"t do it" each time the issue came up, and, as it turned out, we mostly could ;p.

Speaking of: the list of stuff that I haven't actually tested is still there, so, if any users of those thing could test those, that'd be neat .

(By "test", I mean simply trying to use them while offline, and confirming that it: 1. goes online 2. actually does the thing on its own).

In the same vein, if you feel like your network activity is actually low, but it still doesn't get deactivated, enable debug logging and send me the logs, the noise threshold was pretty much eyeballed at random from observing a single device on a single network ;p.

[Frenzie]

@NiLuJe Wallabag works fine, from the code I see no reason any of them shouldn't.

[NiLuJe]

@Frenzie: Cool, thanks .

[LucyOne]

Originally Posted by mirage

Thanks. As mentioned, I've used that, but it only gives me one status bar, not both. I read that the upper one is deprecated or something close to it. But I did have both and can't recreate it. It's OK. I have adequate other ways to get the same data displayed.

I had the same problem. You have to disable the setting "lock status bar", then choose "on" for alt status bar (at the top) in the bottom menu and tap the bottom line until the bottom status bar shows up.

[mirage]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

I had the same problem. You have to disable the setting "lock status bar", then choose "on" for alt status bar (at the top) in the bottom menu and tap the bottom line until the bottom status bar shows up.

Thank you so much, Lucy! I'd let this go earlier figuring that I'd never get it back and that it was fine enough without the top bar. Now that you've shown me the way, I don't know how I ever configured it with both bars to begin with. I must have been experimenting with the Lock Status Bar setting and forgot about it.

That begs another question. Is there any configuring the specifics of the top status bar when both are enabled? I'm not seeing anything for that digging through Settings.

[CH23]

I'm loving this latest release. wifi is easier to use, and most things remain stable and fast from the looks of it.

i say most, because i run into an error when i try to start USB storage.

the exact error:

(i really hope the image scales automagically)(EDIT: of course it didn't )

https://i.imgur.com/byQsWD0.jpeg

[NiLuJe]

@CH23: Most of the incremental KoboUSBMS tweaks I emplemented required touching the startup script.

This requires a full, proper Exit -> Start cycle to take (or a device reboot ).

With a simple KOReader restart, the old startup script keeps being used, and it doesn't know how to deal with the new changes, which at best means it gets caught by the crash handler (i.e., the crash screen), at worst means it gets caught by the USBMS failsafe (i.e., the device shuts down after a while).

[NiLuJe]

If you do manage to reproduce an USBMS failure after a full device reboot, see this message for detailed instructions on how to get at the logs, which should tell us what exactly is happening .

(In some very specific cases, some minimal information may also make it to KOReader's own crash.log, but the syslog will still be much more useful & detailed).

[CH23]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@CH23: Most of the incremental KoboUSBMS tweaks I emplemented required touching the startup script.

This requires a full, proper Exit -> Start cycle to take (or a device reboot ).

With a simple KOReader restart, the old startup script keeps being used, and it doesn't know how to deal with the new changes, which at best means it gets caught by the crash handler (i.e., the crash screen), at worst means it gets caught by the USBMS failsafe (i.e., the device shuts down after a while).

d'oh! I should have known better. that solved it, love the status bar. I think by now I could just kick out KMS/Nickel and exclusively boot to koreader.

[binarymelon]

Does the Calibre Wireless connection support using a domain name to connect to Calibre, or is it required to be an IP?

[NiLuJe]

I don't think we actually have a way to coerce an input field like that, so my gut feeling would say that yeah, that should work, as long as the device can actually resolve that hostname.

But, never tried it myself .