Kobo Start Menu 08

[loviedovie]

Originally Posted by tshering

This package installs syncthing under KSM 08

How to install and activate:

Spoiler:

• extract KoboRoot.tgz from the uploaded zip archive and copy it into .kobo
• eject and disconnect the device
• select (from home): handle update > install update
• wait until the reader has restarted
• select (from home): scripts > syncthing > syncthing start.sh
• if you see "Syncthing has been configured successfully", touch the middle of the screen, and then press the "close" button
• Enable wifi, if it is not already on
• On your pc, type into the location bar "http://<your device IP>:8384" (for instance, "http://10.0.0.3:8384"), and manage the syncthing settings. Note: To refer to a folder with the name ".testsyncfolder" on the user partition of the Kobo (this is what you see, when you connect the device via USB to your pc), you would write "/mnt/onboard/.testsyncfolder".

You can shut down syncthing by selecting "Actions" > "Shutdown" in the web browser, or by selecting "scripts" > "syncthing" > "syncthing kill.sh", in KSM. You can access the syncthing GUI also from your webbrowers on nickel via "http://127.0.0.1:8384", but this seems to be only of limited use.

Note: Do not use the default synchronization folder (/Sync), which is created by syncthing, except you know exactly what you are doing. Anyway, it is not advisable to use the system partition as storage.

There is also syncthing-inotify that watches for file changes (instead of regular interval scans). It can be useful on these low power devices since syncthing can be a greedy battery drainer if you sync a lot of files.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by loviedovie

There is also syncthing-inotify that watches for file changes (instead of regular interval scans). It can be useful on these low power devices since syncthing can be a greedy battery drainer if you sync a lot of files.

Thank you for the information!

[tshering]

Setting a network with KSM is only of limited use. The cause of this is that I used only those means that were already available in KSM. One shortcoming is that one can only type a very restricted set of characters (0-9, a-z, A-Z) into the password input mask.

I can think of several ways to improve this situation and mention two:

• One could write a new input mask (and everybody is invited to do this).
• One could define some substitution codes for additional characters, so that one would type, e.g., "CCC" and afterwards replace "CCC" by a comma. See the spoiler:
  Spoiler:

  In /adds/kbmenu/scripts_intern/wifi/wifi_ap_scan.sh insert after the line
  

  pw1=$($bouncer)

  something like
  

  pw1=${pw1//CCC/,}
  pw1=${pw1//DDD/.}
  pw1=${pw1//EEE/!}
  pw1=${pw1//QQQ/?}
  pw1=${pw1//SSS/;}

  For instance, if your password is "my;password", you would type "mySSSpassword" instead.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by had

Ken, how do you set the uSD card to read/write ? For me, syncthing will not sync to a folder within /mnt/sd/ because it complains that the filesystem is read-only.

I put the following in /mnt/onboard/.adds/koreader/koreader.sh, after
"# end of value check of PLATFORM"

#remount SD card as read/write
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/sd/

just before:

./reader.lua "${args}" 2> crash.log

So, the second option tshering listed.

Luck;
Ken

[Glukkkk]

The power button and sleep mode , cover with automatic on/off, must work when the KSM8 is active?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Glukkkk

The power button and sleep mode , cover with automatic on/off, must work when the KSM8 is active?

I am not totally sure whether I understand the question correctly. I try to answer nevertheless.

There are some things the power button/slider does independent of any application. It powers on the device if it was off, and it forces the device to power off,if you hold the button for 20 secs or so in the off position. In combination with the home or light button, the power button/slider can trigger a factory reset. The power button also awakes the device from suspend state.

Any application can add functionality to the power button. The different applications of KSM (the menu proper speaking, the text viewer, the image viewer, the ini file manager, and so on) do not add any new functionality.

Other applications do. With nickel, KOReader or any application of the Pbchess package running, a short push on or slide of the power button/slider puts the device to sleep. With nickel, holding the power button a little longer powers the device off (maybe this is also the case with Pbchess, I never tried).

As for a sleep cover, I cannot remember exactly, since I do not use one. But I think it is the task of each application to handle it.

I try to say it another way: Under nickel the functions of the button(s)/slider and sleep cover are always the same, irrespective whether nickel was started from KSM or not. This is true also for KOReader and the Pbchess applications.

[Glukkkk]

Thanks for the answer.
You almost have correctly understood.
With nickel, KOReader or any application of the Pbchess package running, a short push on or slide of the power button / slider puts the device to sleep.
And when we see on the screen "KSM", why it does not work "a short push on or slide of the power button / slider puts the device to sleep"?

[Ken Maltby]

KSM doesn't have or need a sleep function. Nickel, KOReader, and Coolreader do.

Luck;
Ken

[Glukkkk]

This is bad.
There is a habit: the book closed, book sleeping.
When enabled KSM, the book does not go into sleep mode ...

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Glukkkk

This is bad.
There is a habit: the book closed, book sleeping.
When enabled KSM, the book does not go into sleep mode ...

There are some problems with suspending the device. If you search the Kobo forum, you will find a lot complaining about battery drains during sleep, about the device not reliably sleeping while the cover is closed and so on. I simply do not want KSM to be responsible for your battery going flat.

If you want your device to be put into suspend state after a certain time or when you close the cover, make sure you have one of the reading applications running. Most of the time, this will be the case anyway.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Glukkkk

This is bad.
There is a habit: the book closed, book sleeping.
When enabled KSM, the book does not go into sleep mode ...

KSM doesn't normally have anything to do with books, you can't be in KSM and be reading a book. In fact, if you leave a reader, like KOReader or Coolreader and go to KSM, you have shutdown the reader, it won't be in "sleep mode", either.

Luck;
Ken

[PeterT]

Ken; I think that Glukkkk means that when the eBook reader is closed (ie the KOBO cover is closed) that with KSM enabled the eBook reader does not go into sleep reader.

[Glukkkk]

Maybe write a script that will be KSM switched to nickel after 5 ... 10 minutes of inaction?
Then you can use a standard automatic sleep / shutdown nickel ...

[tshering]

@Glukkkk
thank you for the suggestion!

[had]

Thanks Ken and tshering,

I will add this to the script that starts syncthing, as it always needs write access to the external sd.

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

I put the following in /mnt/onboard/.adds/koreader/koreader.sh, after
"# end of value check of PLATFORM"

#remount SD card as read/write
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/sd/

just before:

./reader.lua "${args}" 2> crash.log

So, the second option tshering listed.

Luck;
Ken