Use for Aura HD H2O original with no touch?

Quoth · 01-04-2024, 05:31 PM

I have an H2O original with no touch. I think the bezel, which is the IR light pipes, is damaged.

So ideas for use other than an ereader that don't involve much time or money. I'm not short of actual ereaders, so I'd not even try to get a replacement bezel.

I've obviously access to the entire FS simply by sticking the SD card into my Linux box. Currently a 32G Byte SD card as the original was dodgy. I also set the autoUSB gadget mode and sideloadedmode and it updated to firmware and displays added books in My Books. Also changing the front-light setting in config works.

I have a dedicated weather station with real outdoor HW, so not interested in fetching a weather display from the Internet. Nor news headlines.

Quoth · 01-06-2024, 12:08 PM

How hard to integrate as a text terminal screen on a Raspberry PI using nano or similar as a text editor via USB networking in portrait mode?
That would give 135 columns x 65 rows text using an 8 x 22 cell, or about 72 columns with 16 x 22 pixel cell.

NiMa · 01-07-2024, 10:21 PM

- Might be useful: https://github.com/llandsmeer/inkvt

- Might also be useful but require some porting (only compatible with InkBox OS currently): https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/ITerm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piH2415cnY
It has better rendering overall since it uses Qt instead of printing directly on the FB.

You can use tmux on your local computer and SSH from the device. It's probably possible to launch either one of these with a command without typing it in from a touchscreen.

01-04-2024, 05:31 PM	#1
Quoth Reading till the spring Posts: 12,890 Karma: 96999999 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Use for Aura HD H2O original with no touch? I have an H2O original with no touch. I think the bezel, which is the IR light pipes, is damaged. So ideas for use other than an ereader that don't involve much time or money. I'm not short of actual ereaders, so I'd not even try to get a replacement bezel. I've obviously access to the entire FS simply by sticking the SD card into my Linux box. Currently a 32G Byte SD card as the original was dodgy. I also set the autoUSB gadget mode and sideloadedmode and it updated to firmware and displays added books in My Books. Also changing the front-light setting in config works. I have a dedicated weather station with real outdoor HW, so not interested in fetching a weather display from the Internet. Nor news headlines. Last edited by Quoth; 01-04-2024 at 05:34 PM.

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01-06-2024, 12:08 PM	#2
Quoth Reading till the spring Posts: 12,890 Karma: 96999999 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	How hard to integrate as a text terminal screen on a Raspberry PI using nano or similar as a text editor via USB networking in portrait mode? That would give 135 columns x 65 rows text using an 8 x 22 cell, or about 72 columns with 16 x 22 pixel cell.

01-07-2024, 10:21 PM	#3
NiMa Evangelist Posts: 479 Karma: 2390534 Join Date: Jun 2020 Location: Somewhere in the Universe Device: Kobo Libra, Glo HD, Touch C/B, Mini, Glo, Aura SE, Clara HD, KT	- Might be useful: https://github.com/llandsmeer/inkvt - Might also be useful but require some porting (only compatible with InkBox OS currently): https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/ITerm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piH2415cnY It has better rendering overall since it uses Qt instead of printing directly on the FB. You can use tmux on your local computer and SSH from the device. It's probably possible to launch either one of these with a command without typing it in from a touchscreen.