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

[m339]

Nevermind, found that I failed to overwrite .adds folder.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by m339

I have KA1 with SM8 & stable version of koreader-v2015.11-1370-g5ee6c01 installed on it. I would like to upgrade it to the latest beta version so I downloaded koreader-kobo-arm-kobo-linux-gnueabihf-v2015.11-1868-gb8d9598_2018-10-06, extracted koreader folder to .adds and also .kobo. Rebooted the device but it still mounts the old version of koreader. Any idea what I miss ?

If you had successfully copied the koreader folder into .adds and .kobo, would you not have overwritten the old koreader version?

Edit: I see that you already discovered by yourself.

[hel]

I've tried to install Koreader with StartMenu9 on Kobo Forma. It fails saying "irregular error". StartMenu works fine, I took a version for Kobo Clara. Is there any solution yet?

[NiLuJe]

@hel: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/4291

[pickyaxe]

I think the Forma was made for KOReader support. The pdf support, the button customization, the option to disable Nickel's forced rotation. Definitely would be using this a lot once you guys get it all figured out (thanks again!)

[dalamario]

I installed koreader on my kobo forma modifying "/koreader/frontend/device/kobo/device.lua" adding the following to the devices list:

-- Kobo Forma:
local KoboFrost = Kobo:new{
    model = "Kobo_frost",
    hasFrontlight = yes,
    hasKeys = yes,
    touch_probe_ev_epoch_time = true,
    touch_snow_protocol = true,
    display_dpi = 300,
    hasNaturalLight = yes,
}

To have the page turn buttons working, add "hasKeys = yes," to the above code (see bolded line) and below code to self.input event_map list:

			[193] = "RPgBack",
			[194] = "RPgFwd",

And the following on the elseif list:

elseif codename == "frost" then
    return KoboFrost

This is a simple patch, koreader is not aware of screen orientation so to have touch aligned with screen, you have to open koreader with forma buttons on the right side.

I launch it with fmon and is working fine, I suppose it will work also with KFM or KSM.

[Yangshuo]

Koreader run on Kobo Forma but it has a problem with fontlight

[CH23]

Originally Posted by dalamario

I installed koreader on my kobo forma modifying "/koreader/frontend/device/kobo/device.lua" adding the following to the devices list:

-- Kobo Forma:
local KoboFrost = Kobo:new{
    model = "Kobo_frost",
    hasFrontlight = yes,
    hasKeys = yes,
    touch_probe_ev_epoch_time = true,
    touch_snow_protocol = true,
    display_dpi = 300,
    hasNaturalLight = yes,
}

To have the page turn buttons working, add "hasKeys = yes," to the above code (see bolded line) and below code to self.input event_map list:

			[193] = "RPgBack",
			[194] = "RPgFwd",

And the following on the elseif list:

elseif codename == "frost" then
    return KoboFrost

This is a simple patch, koreader is not aware of screen orientation so to have touch aligned with screen, you have to open koreader with forma buttons on the right side.

I launch it with fmon and is working fine, I suppose it will work also with KFM or KSM.

very nice work!

Originally Posted by Yangshuo

Koreader run on Kobo Forma but it has a problem with fontlight

could you be more specific? is something not working, is the colour wrong?

[Yangshuo]

On Forma ,Koreader hasn't fontlight.

[pazos]

Yangshuo, I think that dalamario tested this behaviour on a old copy of KOReader (which had natural light settings of Kobo Aura One hardcoded). In that case you'll need to add:

    frontlight_settings = {
        frontlight_white = "/sys/class/backlight/lm3630a_led1b",
        frontlight_red = "/sys/class/backlight/lm3630a_led1a",
        frontlight_green = "/sys/class/backlight/lm3630a_ledb",
    },

under

hasNaturalLight = yes,

But, given the feedback of patrick-tang in https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ment-434685667 and https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ment-434914153, the working settings would be

frontlight_settings = {
      frontlight_white = "/sys/class/backlight/mxc_msp430.0",
      frontlight_red = "/sys/class/backlight/tlc5947_bl",
}

again under

hasNaturalLight = yes,

[Yangshuo]

Woa, fontlight turned on. Thank pazos

[NiLuJe]

This should make it into tomorrow's (well, err, in 3 hours actually ) nightly, FWIW. Thanks for everyone's tests .

(Rotation is still quirky, though).

[Uphantom89]

I have a Kobo Touch.Currently, I couldn't find "hard home button" using as next page function in the function list.
The idea is: when using kobo touch in landscape mode, the home button is at the thumb. So, I come up with an idea: Home button use as next page button ( like kindle Oasis ).
Hope that developer can consider to add this mod or is there any manual method to do this, please kindly instruct me.
Thank you in advance

[Uphantom89]

After refer thread #2994, I try with my kobo touch , and bravo, Now I have Kobo touch with next page hard button - when reading in landscape mode (like kobo forma) .
Short instruction for those don't want to search:
- Open file "/koreader/frontend/device/kobo/device.lua"
- replace "home" by "RPgFwd" (at the event_map list),
- Save the file

Then you got the result

[CH23]

Originally Posted by Uphantom89

After refer thread #2994, I try with my kobo touch , and bravo, Now I have Kobo touch with next page hard button - when reading in landscape mode (like kobo forma) .
Short instruction for those don't want to search:
- Open file "/koreader/frontend/device/kobo/device.lua"
- replace "home" by "RPgFwd" (at the event_map list),
- Save the file

Then you got the result

it would be nice if this could also work with a doubletap to go to previous page.