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Kindle Art Frame
Turn a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 3 or 4 into a Wi-Fi-updated e-ink display of famous, public-domain paintings.
- Add-on
- Stable
- Low brick risk
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Before you start
- How hard is it?
- EasyCopy a file or use a web page. No extra software.
- What you need
- A USB or MIDI cable
- Comfort with the command line
- A computer
- Another hack installed first
- Can it break my device?
- Very unlikely to break anything.
- Can I undo it?
- The project doesn't say. Assume you can't.
Get itOpens github.com
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Compatibility
Devices: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 3.
No compatibility information yet.
Getting started
From the project's README ("Installing on the Kindle"):
The Kindle must already be jailbroken (see Jailbreak below) before any of this works. Over USB, with the Kindle mounted as drive D::
- Copy the entire kindle/artframe/ folder to D:\artframe\ (this includes loop.sh, config.sh, fetch.sh, the optional xh binary, charge.png and test.png). xh is not committed to git: it is only a fallback downloader (the built-in curl is primary), so if you want it, take the xh file out of kindle-dash-v1.0.0-beta.4.tgz from https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/releases and drop it in kindle/artframe/.
- Copy the three files in kindle/documents/ to D:\documents: ArtFrame-Diagnostics.sh, ArtFrame-TestDisplay.sh, ArtFrame-Start.sh.
- Eject the drive safely. Each .sh file you copied into documents/ shows up as a "book" in the Kindle's library within a few seconds; tap one to run it (Kindle scriptlets — no KUAL, no SSH required).
Risk and recovery
- Brick risk
- Low
- Requires opening the device
- No