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Old 05-19-2020, 08:40 AM   #1
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Building a dashboard
I wanted to dust off my old Kobo Glo and build a simple dashboard - displaying time - weather, wind, sunrise/sunset etc.

I know frontend/js the best - so I'm looking for a way to get build a fullscreen web window (perhaps using qt5 webview) and simply loading a page with widgets.

What is the easiest way to do this with all the nice tools there are today? I'm thinking kfmon etc.

Also - in what way can I conserve power as much as possible? Preferably I want to have the whole device off basically - and then power on every 15 minutes to do a page refresh (or js widget refresh) whatever is most energy efficient way.
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Old 05-19-2020, 02:23 PM   #2
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I am not skilled enough but there is this thread:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=322162

May it will be useful for You.
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Old 05-19-2020, 05:03 PM   #3
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Thanks for your reply - that is a way forward if you want to use python. I still kind of am looking for my full screen browser solution
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Thanks for your reply - that is a way forward if you want to use python. I still kind of am looking for my full screen browser solution
There is a FullScreenBrowser option in the config file.
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Old 05-20-2020, 03:54 AM   #5
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Ah, excellent! Is there a way to control which url is opened as well? It opens google and I have no way of entering a url. It's fine if I hard code the startup url somewhere.

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There is a FullScreenBrowser option in the config file.
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Old 05-20-2020, 05:04 AM   #6
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Ah, excellent! Is there a way to control which url is opened as well? It opens google and I have no way of entering a url. It's fine if I hard code the startup url somewhere.
You can enter the URL when not in full screen mode and set it as the home page. This is stored in the config file as something like:
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[Browser]
homePage="http://www.google.com/"
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Yea - you're right davidfor, the syntax is correct - just without the " quotation marks.
Do you know of anyway to run the browser in landspace mode? Or I just need to rotate using css?
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Yea - you're right davidfor, the syntax is correct - just without the " quotation marks.
The lines came almost directly from my config file. There was a query string in the URL, so maybe they are needed to avoid escaping other characters.
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Do you know of anyway to run the browser in landspace mode? Or I just need to rotate using css?
With the following in the config file, it adds a icon to the menu bar to rotate the device.

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[DeveloperSettings]
ForceAllowLandscape=true
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