Aura H2O AutoShelf beta

[frostschutz]

Originally Posted by tshering

I think the on-animation could be a problem on some devices, since Sergey's fmon uses this script to start (possibly several) copies of fmon.

At this point I'm more concerned that nickel doesn't break because of it. If it turns out to work I'll just copy it then.

Originally Posted by davidfor

That is supposedly the date added to the shelf, but it is broken in recent firmware.

Thanks for telling me ... so there's hope the DateAdded will work in some future firmware. We will see...

[boriar]

Is it possible one way to activate/deactivate it from within KSM and/or nickel?

[frostschutz]

It's not related to KSM in any way. Activate/deactivate isn't possible right now. An uninstall routine is on the todo list.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

It's not related to KSM in any way. Activate/deactivate isn't possible right now. An uninstall routine is on the todo list.

I borrowed a large part of your script and adopted it for usage with KSM, cf. this post. I hope this is okay with you. If you mind, please tell me, and I will remove the script from the post.

[frostschutz]

That's fine. It's open source, after all. I don't use KSM myself (yet?) so you'll have to maintain that version yourself, though...

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

That's fine. It's open source, after all. I don't use KSM myself (yet?) so you'll have to maintain that version yourself, though...

Since you mentioned maintenance, this could be easy for me, if ... Could you please have a look at the attached script?

Edit: This script was only thought for exchanging ideas with Frostschutz. KSM users please use the script uploaded to this post.

[frostschutz]

@tshering: Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure if it's useful like that; might be better to make the script take some parameters so anyone can call it. I'll see what I can come up with.

I'll also fix the on animation. The format of those raw graphics is still a mystery to me. I can decode the regular screenshot fine, although it's a bit strange (virtual resolution so you have to ignore some pixels). You can actually do colored screenshots, in the web browser and such, that's kind of funny for a black-and-white display.

But in the raw.gz (specifically the ones for the H2O) it's somehow rotated / distorted, I haven't figured out the trick yet. Plus it's different for every device...

With a custom graphic it would be possible (in a shell script) to make a "Do you want to update Shelves now" Yes/No confirmation screen since the pickel also has a touchscreen interface.

Oh well, the automated variant is probably fine anyways

Edit: Never mind, I got it... nickel screenshots are 1088x and the pickel raws are 1440x. Sheesh.

Also, pickel is linked against png and jpeg libraries, but there is no option to make it actually use those formats, is there?

[boriar]

Originally Posted by tshering

Since you mentioned maintenance, this could be easy for me, if ... Could you please have a look at the attached script?

I want to give a try. Where is supossed to be put?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by boriar

I want to give a try. Where is supossed to be put?

See this post.

[boriar]

Originally Posted by tshering

See this post.

Oh! I thought that this replaced the original. So is that an improvement over the one in this post?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by boriar

Oh! I thought that this replaced the original. So is that an improvement over the one in this post?

When used with KSM, both do the same job. The difference is that the one posted in the KSM thread works only in the KSM environment, whereas the one posted in this thread is supposed to work in the KSM environment and in Frostschutz' package too. My proposal to Frostschutz was to use this later script as basis for his further development. I have to admit that I did not see Frostschutz' reply until now.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

@tshering: Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure if it's useful like that;

At least it would be useful for KSM users.

Originally Posted by frostschutz

might be better to make the script take some parameters so anyone can call it. I'll see what I can come up with.

This would increase difficulty for KSM users a bit, but, of course, it would others give a chance to use your script. But since KSM uses only one routine of your scripts, maintaining is not much work for me. So please do not worry about it.

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Also, pickel is linked against png and jpeg libraries, but there is no option to make it actually use those formats, is there?

If there is, then I do not know.

[cnmcleod]

Thank you! Perfect on my H2O.
Now a question, it works over all folders in the SD; I have folders with books and folders with other things... would be possible to start scanning from a folder directly?
For Example..
SD:
/Books
/Pictures
/Rubish
/whatever...

I'd like to create a Shelf from Books where I've organiced my library (/Books/fantasy. /Books/Sci-fi...)

Is it possible?

Thank you very much.

[frostschutz]

Sorry, can you explain a bit more? What other things? This mod does not actually look at the folders at all; it grabs the stuff from the Kobo's own database so it depends on what your database looks like. I've already excluded some entry types as otherwise it would create collections without any content.

https://github.com/frostschutz/Kobo/...toshelf.sh#L49

You could change the condition there to file:///mnt/%/Books/%

https://github.com/frostschutz/Kobo/...toshelf.sh#L59

And change this to (onboard|sd)/Books/

Putting that in the official mod would require everyone to move their books there and re-index the entire database; I guess I'll have to introduce a configuration file or something for such things.

(I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't have everything in Books/?)

Edit: Also you can put anything you don't want in the database into a .hidden dir that starts with a .

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Sorry, can you explain a bit more? What other things? This mod does not actually look at the folders at all; it grabs the stuff from the Kobo's own database so it depends on what your database looks like. I've already excluded some entry types as otherwise it would create collections without any content.

https://github.com/frostschutz/Kobo/...toshelf.sh#L49

Looking at the SQL, you can just use ContentType=6. These are the book records. ContentType=9 are the chapters and kepubs also have ContentType=899 are chapters/spine entries. That plus the first ContentId condition will do it.