Mirror your kobo screen to PC

Szybet · 09-01-2023, 02:02 PM

Hello
A tool for developers tired of clicking on the ereader
https://github.com/Szybet/kobo-screen-mirror
In the repo is a presentation.

This could in theory work on devices with a broken screen all together ( works on one where touchscreen is broken but I2C with the controller still works ).

I wonder if there is any way to make the E-ink stop updating but the framebuffer would still work normally? Propably impossible without a kernel hack

elinkser · 09-03-2023, 03:13 PM

You mean like a headless vnc server?
This guy did one - don't know if that's what you mean.

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Expose...m_via_VNC.html

Szybet · 09-03-2023, 04:02 PM

Yep exactly something like that, but it works with eink framebuffer, not just Qt

Apart from that Qt vnc platform plugin doesn't f*****g work at all on kobo's, port is open, connection is loading, no logs, nothing on both sides just doesn't work, i have spend too much time debugging it and nothing, so I have written this one...

09-01-2023, 02:02 PM	#1
Szybet Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 3892 Join Date: Feb 2022 Device: Kobo nia	Mirror your kobo screen to PC Hello A tool for developers tired of clicking on the ereader https://github.com/Szybet/kobo-screen-mirror In the repo is a presentation. This could in theory work on devices with a broken screen all together ( works on one where touchscreen is broken but I2C with the controller still works ). I wonder if there is any way to make the E-ink stop updating but the framebuffer would still work normally? Propably impossible without a kernel hack

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09-03-2023, 03:13 PM	#2
elinkser Groupie Posts: 186 Karma: 146236 Join Date: Oct 2022 Device: Kobo Clara HD	You mean like a headless vnc server? This guy did one - don't know if that's what you mean. https://raymii.org/s/articles/Expose...m_via_VNC.html

09-03-2023, 04:02 PM	#3
Szybet Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 3892 Join Date: Feb 2022 Device: Kobo nia	Yep exactly something like that, but it works with eink framebuffer, not just Qt Apart from that Qt vnc platform plugin doesn't f*****g work at all on kobo's, port is open, connection is loading, no logs, nothing on both sides just doesn't work, i have spend too much time debugging it and nothing, so I have written this one...

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