NickelMenu: An integrated launcher for Kobo eReaders

[lvhuyen]

First of all, thanks to @geek1011 for this great tool.

I have an Aura One, and mostly used for reading PDFs. However, copying PDFs via USB is tedious (I also tried Calibre, but I personally think that it is worse than using USB - I still need to turn on my laptop, enable the Calibre server,...)

Is there any option that allows me to send files from my phone to my Kobo? I miss the "send via email" feature that Kindle provides.

Thanks a million.

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by lvhuyen

Is there any option that allows me to send files from my phone to my Kobo?

You can easily transfer files via FTP
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=57

[lvhuyen]

Thank you Semwize and geek1011

I tried and could connect to the FTP server on my Kobo, but could not do any action (e.g: ls). Tried to send a file also failed - when I put a file from my laptop, I got 200, and then 421 after a while. On my Kobo, I could see the new file but with size = 0.

lvhuyen@HT470s:~$ ftp 192.168.8.102 1021
Connected to 192.168.8.102.
220 Operation successful
Name (192.168.8.102:lvhuyen): root
230 Operation successful
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> put oktashell.sh
local: oktashell.sh remote: oktashell.sh
200 Operation successful

421 Timeout
ftp>

BTW, is it possible to show the current IP address in the dbg_toast message?

Thanks a lot!

[NiLuJe]

I can't vouch for the stock busybox applet (although I assume people have used it successfully in the past), but a current busybox build behaves just fine (tested w/ lftp).

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As for showing the IP, a bit of massaging on the output of ip ought to do it, something along the lines of ip addr show ${INTERFACE} to inet | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d/ ought to do it...

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

As for showing the IP, a bit of massaging on the output of ip ought to do it, something along the lines of ip addr show ${INTERFACE} to inet | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d/ ought to do it...

I use: menu_item:main:IP Address:cmd_output:500:ifconfig | awk '/inet addr/{print substr($2,6)}'

[Luuuk]

Hello
I'm a little bit out of Ideas.
I used KFMon and KOreader so far. But i found it annoying after every update i had to reinstall it again which caused problem and i had to Reset my Aura h2o and loost 2k on books.
Now i saw there this new Nickelmenu that stays even after the update.
But i have problem to understand something, maybe someone can help me?

It says: Create a File no matter what type Named : KOBOeReader/.adds/nm/config

But how do you name a file like that if windows always says a file Name cant contain these characters like * / \ etc.
Or does it mean i have to make a File Named "Config" and put it in the nm directory??

Also follow the instructions in the DOC. Theres a lof commands i dont know how to use. I guess i have to stick with KFMon and the old way? I hope this would be a bit easier. Im a bit stupid when it comes to coding and commanding.
Please help and thank you in advance

[gogu1904]

You create the file named config (lowercase everything) and put it in the nm directory.

You do not have to stick with KFMon. You can start KOReader directly via a menu option using NM.

[NiLuJe]

The OCP packages ship with a ready-to-go NM config (in .adds/nm/koreader).

You can then flip between KFMon/NM at your leisure. Just comment one and comment out the other .

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That said: @Luuuk: I'm confused about how you managed to end up having to factory reset because of a simple update?

[Luuuk]

Originally Posted by gogu1904

You create the file named config (lowercase everything) and put it in the nm directory.

You do not have to stick with KFMon. You can start KOReader directly via a menu option using NM.

Thanks alot. Thats what i thought but i wasnt sure

[Luuuk]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

The OCP packages ship with a ready-to-go NM config (in .adds/nm/koreader).

You can then flip between KFMon/NM at your leisure. Just comment one and comment out the other .

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That said: @Luuuk: I'm confused about how you managed to end up having to factory reset because of a simple update?

Thanks a lot. I will try it.

I really dont know what happened but after i did an update on my Kobo , it didnt actually start up anymore. Endless Loading. After Reset all was fine.

[geek1011]

NickelMenu v0.1.0

This release is the first major feature update for NickelMenu.

• You can now execute chained actions depending on the result of the previous one using `chain_always`, `chain_success` or `chain_failure` (#11).
• To make usage more clear, `chain` has been deprecated in favour of `chain_success` (#33).
• You can now wait for a command to execute without showing the output with the new `quiet` option for `cmd_output` (#9).
• NickelMenu now supports dynamically generated menu items (#4).
• You can now automatically generate menu items for KFMon launchers using the new `kfmon` generator (#29).
• Special hidden files are now ignored during configuration file parsing (#27).
• More examples which make use of the new features have been added to the documentation.
• The current version is now written to the log.
• A few memory leaks have been fixed.
• A new build option has been added for @NiLuJe's one-click packages for Plato/KOReader to automatically uninstall NickelMenu when deleting the configuration directory.

See the release on GitHub for more details.

[JSWolf]

Is there a way to toggle screenshots on and off using NickelMenu? If the answer is yes, how would it be done?

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is there a way to toggle screenshots on and off using NickelMenu? If the answer is yes, how would it be done?

Yes, using the `nickel_setting:screenshots` action.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by geek1011

See the release on GitHub for more details.

FYI, link not working.

[Alan_S]

One s was missing in link (release->releases). Correct link: https://github.com/geek1011/NickelMenu/releases/v0.1.0