K3 monitoring for button presses on kindle 3

superpomme · 02-22-2023, 08:20 AM

Hi, please could I check how to monitor for button presses on a k3? I can see from "showlog"

230222:131631 cvm[16729]: I FrameworkKeyEventDispatcher:USER_HARDKEY_PRESS:Key Pressed=Right_PrevPage:User pressed Right Side Turn Prev Page button

but is this the only way to do it, and is it possible to read the keyboard presses too?

I don't get anything from tailing the files in /dev/input/

The following link
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=164808

suggests you can get stuff from udev with udevadm , but I'm struggling to run that as it isn't found.

Thank you for any help anyone can give,

Rob

NiLuJe · 02-23-2023, 12:03 AM

The input devices report as perfectly sane evdev devices on /dev/input/event0 & /dev/input/event1 (I can't remember which is which, but I would assume event0 to be the power slider & page turn buttons, possibly the 5-way stick too; and event1 the keyboard).

So, yeah, you're probably doing something wrong

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superpomme · 02-23-2023, 01:57 AM

Thank you, I will go back and give it another try. Also thank you so much for all your work, I really appreciate it.

02-22-2023, 08:20 AM	#1
superpomme Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 100218 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kobo touch, k3, k4, Nook Simple touch	monitoring for button presses on kindle 3 Hi, please could I check how to monitor for button presses on a k3? I can see from "showlog" 230222:131631 cvm[16729]: I FrameworkKeyEventDispatcher:USER_HARDKEY_PRESS:Key Pressed=Right_PrevPage:User pressed Right Side Turn Prev Page button but is this the only way to do it, and is it possible to read the keyboard presses too? I don't get anything from tailing the files in /dev/input/ The following link https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=164808 suggests you can get stuff from udev with udevadm , but I'm struggling to run that as it isn't found. Thank you for any help anyone can give, Rob

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02-23-2023, 12:03 AM	#2
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	The input devices report as perfectly sane evdev devices on /dev/input/event0 & /dev/input/event1 (I can't remember which is which, but I would assume event0 to be the power slider & page turn buttons, possibly the 5-way stick too; and event1 the keyboard). So, yeah, you're probably doing something wrong .

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superpomme Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 100218 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kobo touch, k3, k4, Nook Simple touch	Thank you, I will go back and give it another try. Also thank you so much for all your work, I really appreciate it.

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