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This sounds really freaking cool! I was looking for something more in-depth than just koreader launched via nickelmenu. The world of e-ink just doesn’t seem well supported in the custom firmware space. Gonna give this a try on my Glo!
This looks like an awesome project! I have a Kobo Clara HD which I would love to run an open OS on. My priorities would be:
- Being great for reading books, including having a dark mode
- Supporting adjustment of colour temperature of the backlight
- Being able to run syncthing on it. If I could have all the above (and also install CherryTree notes) I would probably throw away my phone!
We have koreader which has dark mode
Both our software and koreader support it ( maybe an update would be needed, idk - easy to add )
Syncthing is a user app already
We have feathernotes which is simmilar to cherry notes - only usb keyboard tho
There is an experimental image for the clara hd but eink performance is not great. Maybe you could help with testing? Idk
That sounds really good - well done!
In what way is eink performance not great for the Clara HD?
Sure, I could help testing it. Do you have a download available?
because it’s mainline kernel something is broken across kernel -> driver -> fbink -> qt platform plugin and it’s slow to draw things on screen. We are looking for solutions and have a few ideas already
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4387514#post4387514
Join our discord server for more up to date info on this
wow this is great
Is there a list of supported devices?
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What is the limiting factor here? Is there a possibility this could be expanded to more devices in the near future?
Some kindles are locked up on cpu level for no reason - fuck amazon
Apart from that, nothing really. Most often people just start to port devices, we help them and one day they dissapear wasting our time and effort :(
3 devices are being currently ported, anyone who has a ereader can come in and try to port it. Only time is needed, we can help with the rest.
The only device that we couldn’t port was the first sony ereader because some weird cpu watchdog ressetted the device after boot - so our knowledge was limited on a complicated device
The device also needs kernel sources to be released for it, but kobo and kindle do release them ( sometimes after complaining ) so thats fine too
This is very interesting. Do you have information on the minimum specs for the os?
There is no minimum spec. It runs on a kobo mini 800 mhz 1 core cpu and 256MB of ram and lags a bit. On a kobo nia which has 1 Ghz 1 core 256 MB ram it’s fine
As I stated in the FAQ, even more performance could be traded for disk size, with a bigger sd card
Oh, is this your project? Congratulations for the initiative. It looks awesome.
I’m not the creator but the only other person that contributes in a major way. “Second developer” as I like to call it
