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

[Ken Maltby]

1. Yes, in KSM.
2. This is a setting in KOReader, version 2015.11-1152 has a number of new menu options, including a new "Start with:" option that gives you a page with three options:

Start with file browser

Start with history

Start with last file

You would select the last one, and it would get a checkmark. Then the Start with menu option will be "Start with: last file >"

3. There is a "KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START" "Advanced setting" but you may want to open: /.adds/koreader/defaults.lua (using Notepad++) where there are green comments that explain the available settings.

-- Light parameter for Kobo
KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START = -2 -- -1, -2 or 0-100. -1 leaves light as it
-- is, -2 uses 'Kobo eReader.conf', other
-- sets light on start/wake up
KOBO_SYNC_BRIGHTNESS_WITH_NICKEL = true -- Save brightness set in KOreader
-- with nickel's 'Kobo eReader.conf'

Luck;
Ken

[Name28]

Ken Maltby, thank you very much! Finally DONE! I did not notice some of these options, my bad

[Name28]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

3. There is a "KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START" "Advanced setting" but you may want to open: /.adds/koreader/defaults.lua (using Notepad++) where there are green comments that explain the available settings.

-- Light parameter for Kobo
KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START = -2 -- -1, -2 or 0-100. -1 leaves light as it
-- is, -2 uses 'Kobo eReader.conf', other
-- sets light on start/wake up
KOBO_SYNC_BRIGHTNESS_WITH_NICKEL = true -- Save brightness set in KOreader
-- with nickel's 'Kobo eReader.conf'

Luck;
Ken

I set KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START to 49. Frontlight works, but after sleep mode (through sliding) frontlight turns off. Could you help?

[Alanon]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

I did a quick basic test and (un?)fortunately I couldn't find any trouble (link). I'm not really sure where to start looking for answers. Maybe something about how a particular OS deals with the FAT32 filesystem?

Done some further testing. I've tried some Russian EPUB's, rtf's and pdf's and they all work as they should. The problem is in the DjVu files, though I'm not sure why that would make a difference?

The DjVu's files suffer no abnormalities whatsoever, anything except pure Latin script will make them unreadable and crash KOReader. That means rare punctuation, Cyrillic letters, expanded Latin letters (like ž, š, etc), perhaps more. Once I rename them, on the PC or internally, they instantly become readable.

Hope this info helps!

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Name28

I set KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START to 49. Frontlight works, but after sleep mode (through sliding) frontlight turns off. Could you help?

You could try turning on the "Frontlight gesture controller" and using the tap at the bottom left of the screen to turn the light on and off.

Luck;
Ken

[Frenzie]

Originally Posted by Alanon

Done some further testing. I've tried some Russian EPUB's, rtf's and pdf's and they all work as they should. The problem is in the DjVu files, though I'm not sure why that would make a difference?

The DjVu's files suffer no abnormalities whatsoever, anything except pure Latin script will make them unreadable and crash KOReader. That means rare punctuation, Cyrillic letters, expanded Latin letters (like ž, š, etc), perhaps more. Once I rename them, on the PC or internally, they instantly become readable.

Hope this info helps!

Possibly, there is https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/542 and I've been able to reproduce the crash. Now the only problem is that I know next to nothing about djvulibre.

[Name28]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

You could try turning on the "Frontlight gesture controller" and using the tap at the bottom left of the screen to turn the light on and off.

Luck;
Ken

Thanks. But is there some way to make it work as it should? It does not make sense if I manually turn on the frontlight each time... Is there any FAQ here?
Frankly speaking, I had no problem (almost) with an old version (2years old). The only reason why I have upgraded, was that Koreader crashed every time I tried to open one book (Ulysses). Otherwise it was perfect. I am not complaining, but the old version was easier to set up, I did not except that it would take me several days, till I make the latest version work as the old one used to.... Sorry.

[Ken Maltby]

I'm on version 1152 and if I suspend/sleep the device, with the light on, it will, of course go off while it is sleeping but it will turn back on as it returns from the suspend. I take it that is not how it is working for you?

If you mean that you think that the light should come on automatically when it starts, even if it was not on before, then many would not see that as "working as it should", there is always a concern for power consumption with battery powered devices.

Luck;
Ken

[Name28]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

I'm on version 1152 and if I suspend/sleep the device, with the light on, it will, of course go off while it is sleeping but it will turn back on as it returns from the suspend. I take it that is not how it is working for you?

Luck;
Ken

It will not turn back on as it returns from the suspend. This is the problem. When I power off the device, with the light on (actually when I read the book I never turn the light off), it will turn back on as I open Koreader. If I suspend, with the light on, it will not turn back on as it returns from suspend.
In short, If device is on, I need the frontlight to be turned on. Always. I think I made it clear.
On the old version I did not have such problem.

[Frenzie]

@Name28 It should work the way you like if you set the following in persistent.defaults.lua

KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START=49

Thanks to poire-z for the hint as I don't really use the frontlight https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ment-325771657

[Alan_S]

Originally Posted by Name28

When I power off the device, with the light on (actually when I read the book I never turn the light off), it will turn back on as I open Koreader. If I suspend, with the light on, it will not turn back on as it returns from suspend.

This is very strange, as koreader works totally opposite for me from what you describe. Like we use two different piece of software. Or, maybe it is something in settings (the most probable thing).

[Name28]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

@Name28 It should work the way you like if you set the following in persistent.defaults.lua

KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START=49

Thanks to poire-z for the hint as I don't really use the frontlight https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ment-325771657

Thanks, but it seems the same parametr as this one:

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

3. There is a "KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START" "Advanced setting" but you may want to open: /.adds/koreader/defaults.lua (using Notepad++) where there are green comments that explain the available settings.

-- Light parameter for Kobo
KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START = -2 -- -1, -2 or 0-100. -1 leaves light as it
-- is, -2 uses 'Kobo eReader.conf', other
-- sets light on start/wake up

When I opened "persistent" one, it was already written KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START=49. Anyway, both in "defaults" and "persistent" I set 49. Problem remains. Any other ideas?

Originally Posted by Alan_S

This is very strange, as koreader works totally opposite for me from what you describe. Like we use two different piece of software. Or, maybe it is something in settings (the most probable thing).

I downloaded from official link. I also think, that it is setting problem, but could not find solution yet.

[Frenzie]

Sorry, I misunderstood and transmitted the message exactly the wrong way around.

Originally Posted by poire-z

if you unset the following KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START=49 and use the default KOBO_LIGHT_ON_START=-2 , and keep KOBO_SYNC_BRIGHTNESS_WITH_NICKEL = true

[Name28]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

Sorry, I misunderstood and transmitted the message exactly the wrong way around.

Thank you so much! It works, finally!

[gerhaher]

Yesterday I downloaded koreader-nightly-20170821, and if anyone is interested I might have found a small and insignificant bug.

I wanted to start my E-reader with History page in "Mosaic with cover images"-mode, so I changed the settings accordingly.
But it didn't work, every time KOReader changed the settings and started with last opened file instead.
Then I tried with the other History display alternatives, with better results. Now the History page started as it should. Then I went back to Mosaic mode again and it also worked.
So you might have to use the other display alternatives first to get "Start with: History" to stick.

That's all.