Aura Kobo Aura (or others) fullscreen web browser

[noonas]

Hello there!

Thanks a lot for all the goo work I can see here!

I have two Kobo (Aura / Touch) and I have been trying to get them working as e-paper dashboards.

I have tried a few of the examples here (weather dash - does not work for me - missing urllib etc)
YAWK however works on both!
Now, I wanted to see if I can setup a web server at home (on my mac, rasPi or other) and point a full screen web browser to it on my Kobo where it could read from and refresh rather than building an image and printing it to the screen.

Anyone have any luck - suggestions on this?

[elinkser]

You mean push api from webserver?


I don't know if web browser on Kobo supports necessary javascript or whatever protocol, but if not, you can definitely whip something else together with all the tools available (KOReader terminal, shell, lua, wget, cURL from NiLuJe kobostuff, fbink, vnc, Xorg in chroot...many ways to skin a cat!)


http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/sh...d.php?t=348481


http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/sh...d.php?t=299110


https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=254214



Here's a server implenentation in php:


https://koditi.my/php-sse-example/



Here's a client example using cURL:


https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/12/day-...and-a-fun-bug/



Here using python (optionally available from kobostuff):


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ing-sse-events



*Edit -whoops, just realized I may be overcomplicating - you just want to dump a server image to client,so..,


https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to...-shell-script/


https://serverfault.com/questions/24...-a-remote-copy



...and transfer server image to screensaver folder?



UPDATE:Speaking of thinking outside the box, I see this guy went the opposite way, pushing from client to server - makes sense if you have no browser with javascript.


https://github.com/tylpk1216/KoboPageTurner


https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=345507&page=4



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CORRECTION: According to Sherman, at least some server events are supported on the Kobo browser:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=330150

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=11


The example I had previously tried was maybe too demanding (you can find the link at the bottom of this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=52


https://www.javatpoint.com/html-server-sent-event


You can see it's pretty challenging even on a low end phone.