Kobo Dashboard (Another not-so-useful app I made) - Page 3

lohtse · 08-20-2019, 09:32 AM

same issue...

lohtse · 08-20-2019, 09:52 AM

Ok so deleted all folders relating to kfmon,plate,kreader,wolf thingy and dashboard. reinstalled dashboard and kfmon... edited config.json now loads the dashboard but no info whats so ever other than clock no icons work either only way to do anything is a reboot
..

BUT at least this is progress :-)

Mavireck · 08-20-2019, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lohtse

Ok so deleted all folders relating to kfmon,plate,kreader,wolf thingy and dashboard. reinstalled dashboard and kfmon... edited config.json now loads the dashboard but no info whats so ever other than clock no icons work either only way to do anything is a reboot
..

BUT at least this is progress :-)

Wow that is really nice to hear!!

Does the clock update every minute or is it frozen?

If needed, you can change in the dashboard.py file the font size (just try and find values that suit you, I added to my to-do list to make them fit dynamically to the screen's height.)

I will look at Koreader and Plato's sources to check if touch input handling is different for the Kobo Touch.

lohtse · 08-20-2019, 10:32 AM

clock doesn't update... Just frozen... but one step closer lol

NiLuJe · 08-20-2019, 10:54 AM

Spoiler alert: it is, and it's messy (there's three variants, possibly differing in behavior depending on some more unknown variables :/).

Mavireck · 08-20-2019, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Spoiler alert: it is, and it's messy (there's three variants, possibly differing in behavior depending on some more unknown variables :/).

@Iohtse could you edit the .adds/mavireck/Kobo-Dashboard/dashboard.sh file ?
Change the last line, which says this :

Code:

python dashboard.py

To this :

Code:

python dashboard.py > log.txt

Then, restart the dashboard app, reboot and post in attachment or anywhere the log.txt file.
Thank your for your help testing it on another device

lohtse · 08-20-2019, 12:54 PM

where does it save the log file too?? dones as you asked and can't find the file also will not start dashboard when I click command is that normal?

change command line back and now dashboard will not even run!!!

Mavireck · 08-20-2019, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lohtse

where does it save the log file too?? dones as you asked and can't find the file also will not start dashboard when I click command is that normal?

change command line back and now dashboard will not even run!!!

That is not supposed to happen, that may be a encoding problem. I will send you a file in a few hours when I am home

lohtse · 08-20-2019, 01:26 PM

Okie dokie

happy to help

Mavireck · 08-20-2019, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lohtse

Okie dokie

happy to help

I did actually forgot a few details, so my command did not work (although it should not have broken the app on your device).

Anyway, download the zip in attachment. Delete the old dashboard.sh, and put the one from the zip file in .adds/mavireck/Kobo-Dashboard/

Then, run the app (it should be working), and then send me the output.log file which should be located at .adds/mavireck/Kobo-Dashboard/output.log

lohtse · 08-22-2019, 05:32 AM

didn't work so will do a fresh install

lohtse · 08-26-2019, 02:43 AM

Did a full refresh install... And now will not even start..... no idea whats happened... Can't get the log file either as nothing is being generate...

Mavireck · 08-26-2019, 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lohtse

Did a full refresh install... And now will not even start..... no idea whats happened... Can't get the log file either as nothing is being generate...

I am afraid I won't be able to help without a device at my hand. There is a little chance I might get a hand on a kobo mini for a few days next week. That is still unlikely but if I do, I will fix it for the mini and publish a new version.

lohtse · 08-26-2019, 05:23 AM

that would be great and if you need a tester for anything in the mean time send it my way and will give it another go on my kobo...

Thank you for all your hard work.

Mavireck · 08-28-2019, 09:39 AM

Some general news:

I recently worked on a framework to write apps more easily.
It is not revolutionnary, (every big app like Plato and Koreader include a similar framework). It is integrated inside tools like tkinter etc, but here I decided to work on a simple implementation to write simple code.

You can find it here :
KSSM - KoboScreenStackManager

What it does
When you build an app, at some point you need to write to the framebuffer. NiLuJe's FBInk is a librairy that does that for you, and it expects as arguments raw image files.
So what KSSM does, is that it handles the printing and removal of the images. So it keeps in memory which images have already been printed.
For instance, you can update something which is hidden by a popup very easily!

(And at some point it will come with prebuilt objects like popups, prompts, keyboard, buttons, lists, etc...)

Just... why??
Because when I developped my dashboard, I eventually found myself to be needing a more standardized way to print things on the screen, and to update modules which were sometimes hidden by the keyboard.
So I worked on KSSM.
And my life is becoming easier

(altough to this day, I have not yet ported my dashboard to KSSM entirely)

08-20-2019, 09:52 AM	#32
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	Ok so deleted all folders relating to kfmon,plate,kreader,wolf thingy and dashboard. reinstalled dashboard and kfmon... edited config.json now loads the dashboard but no info whats so ever other than clock no icons work either only way to do anything is a reboot .. BUT at least this is progress :-) Attached Thumbnails Last edited by lohtse; 08-20-2019 at 10:06 AM.

08-20-2019, 12:54 PM	#37
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	where does it save the log file too?? dones as you asked and can't find the file also will not start dashboard when I click command is that normal? change command line back and now dashboard will not even run!!! Last edited by lohtse; 08-20-2019 at 01:04 PM.

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08-20-2019, 09:32 AM	#31
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	same issue...

08-20-2019, 10:32 AM	#34
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	clock doesn't update... Just frozen... but one step closer lol

08-20-2019, 10:54 AM	#35
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Spoiler alert: it is, and it's messy (there's three variants, possibly differing in behavior depending on some more unknown variables :/).

08-20-2019, 01:26 PM	#39
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	Okie dokie happy to help

08-22-2019, 05:32 AM	#41
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	didn't work so will do a fresh install

08-26-2019, 02:43 AM	#42
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	Did a full refresh install... And now will not even start..... no idea whats happened... Can't get the log file either as nothing is being generate...

08-26-2019, 05:23 AM	#44
lohtse Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 38050 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Anywhere I am sent!!! Device: Kobo Touch	that would be great and if you need a tester for anything in the mean time send it my way and will give it another go on my kobo... Thank you for all your hard work.

08-28-2019, 09:39 AM	#45
Mavireck Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 18290 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France Device: Kobo H2O (broken), Kobo H2O Edition 2 v1 (stolen), Kobo Clara 2E	Some general news: I recently worked on a framework to write apps more easily. It is not revolutionnary, (every big app like Plato and Koreader include a similar framework). It is integrated inside tools like tkinter etc, but here I decided to work on a simple implementation to write simple code. You can find it here : KSSM - KoboScreenStackManager What it does When you build an app, at some point you need to write to the framebuffer. NiLuJe's FBInk is a librairy that does that for you, and it expects as arguments raw image files. So what KSSM does, is that it handles the printing and removal of the images. So it keeps in memory which images have already been printed. For instance, you can update something which is hidden by a popup very easily! (And at some point it will come with prebuilt objects like popups, prompts, keyboard, buttons, lists, etc...) Just... why?? Because when I developped my dashboard, I eventually found myself to be needing a more standardized way to print things on the screen, and to update modules which were sometimes hidden by the keyboard. So I worked on KSSM. And my life is becoming easier (altough to this day, I have not yet ported my dashboard to KSSM entirely)