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Touch Kobo as home automation display
Hi, I thought I would share what I have done in terms of using my kobo touch as the dispay interface to my home automation system [www.openhab.com]. I hacked the Kobo with Marek's debian image and used...
View ArticleIs Kobo Start Menu open-source?
I am using Kobo Start Menu 8 for my Kobo Aura HD. The only issue I am facing is, I cannot type punctuation marks. Though I can change my WIFI password, there is no guarantee all WIFI passwords are...
View ArticleAura H2O Any way to get total number of pages info without opening book?
Hi, The feature I miss most from my kindle 3 is the dots below the book title in list view that showed me how long the book is without having to open it. On my H2O, the only way to know how long a book...
View ArticleTouch libnickel.so with kiwix-serve modifications for firmware 3.19.5761
Hi all, In case anyone is still interested, I went and patched the libnickel.so from 3.19.5761 in the manner described at https://a3nm.net/blog/kobo_glo_hacking.html. This means that you can launch the...
View Articleis there a kindle os port for kobo?
I have a kobo aura HD. but it is not good as kindle for some reason: 1. Kindle has a Chinese bookstore where I can buy Chinese book while kobo not. 2. 'Send to kindle' is very convenient to copy books...
View ArticleBypassing registration in 3.19+
Hi, Is there a way to use 3.19.* firmwares without a Kobo account? The old method with manually inserting some arbitrary user data into KoboReader.sqlite does not work anymore. A "Critical Error"...
View ArticleAura HD Factory reset but button broken
My Aura HD is playing up. 1. Some (DRM) books won't open because it claims I'm not logged in to Adobe - but I am. 2. Some books don't appear at all and aren't found in a search, but when the reader is...
View ArticleTick Tock,new firmware soon?
I wonder if its that time again for Kobo to Push its latest and greatest to devices? Its been a while and I am wondering if they will be brining out a new a new firmware soon. So lets have some fun and...
View ArticleKobo Connection Wifi problems
Hi It seems the router has to be connected to the internet for the WIFI to come up.... totally rubbish Connects to SSID , DHCP gives it an IP.... checks for something on the internet, all I can see is...
View ArticleTouch Doubt in dictionaries creation for for kobo touch!
Ereader: Kobo Touch Model: N905 Firmware: 3.19.5761 (Original firmware) Hardware Updated: 2GB of internal micro sd card exchange for 8GB. My Linux debian 8 system and installed Pyglossary and Penelope...
View Articlebest way to convert PDFs to EPUB ?
just wondered what kinds of results you guys have gotten from different conversion methods, and which you think is the best ? i tried the top google hit: http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub...
View ArticleAura H2O USB connection with application running?
I have an application running in the H2O browser and I'd like to be able to write a file to the reader while the browser is running. However as soon as you connect to another computer via usb the...
View ArticleDecode sqlite Event ExtraData BLOB
Has anyone figured out how to decode this BLOB field? And write it back with different values?
View ArticleGlo How to trigger library update after side-load?
Right after the launch of Nickel I start a script that automatically downloads images and text files from the internet. After the download I want to see those files in the library (under "Books"). How...
View ArticleAura H2O Annotations to screenshot batch
:help: Hi everyone. I was wondering would it be possible to write a user-friendly script / patch / mode that would basically make screenshots out of each annotation in a book. I take a lot of...
View ArticleAura HD current screen in suspend/off mode
is there hack that allows the current screen, whatever you are looking at right now on the aura hd (text, image, whatever), to remain the screen image when you put the kobo aura hd in suspend mode or...
View ArticleShift dictionary to the bottom
Dear, I have got an Aura HD, and unfortunately the top part of the screen is now no more functional (drop from 20cm on the floor). It means that approx 1.5cm on the upper part of the screen does not...
View ArticleToo many instances of inetd
Hi there, I gained telent access to my Kobo Glo HD as described here in several places using a preconfigured KoboRoot.tgz with the following contents: rcS2 Code: #!/bin/sh mkdir -p /dev/pts mount -t...
View ArticleGlo Glo HD - View Details of a book
Hi everybody, I read quite a lot of posts, but did not find an answer to my question. I use Calibre (2.53) to sort my books and add quite some information and custom columns. I have also several tags...
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