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kindle-dash
Power efficient dashboard for Kindle 4 NT devices
- Add-on
- Abandoned
- Low brick risk
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Latest release · 27 Jul 2022v1.0.0-beta.4
Changed
- Only call eips if fetch-dashboard succesfully completes
- Ensure a full screen refresh is triggered after wake from sleep
- Build ht from upstream sources, using rusttls instead of vendored openssl
- Replace ht 0.4.0 with xh 0.16.1 (project was renamed)
⚠️ This release contains a (potentially) breaking change ⚠️
ht, the bundled http client, was upgraded from 0.4.0 to 0.16.1. The project was renamed to xh in the meantime. Some of the command-line options of ht might not be compatible anymore, check out the xh documentation for details.
Upgrading
- Download the latest release on your computer and extract it.
- Copy the files to the Kindle, excluding the
localdirectory. For example:rsync -vur --exclude=local ./ kindle:/mnt/us/dashboard. - Update your
local/fetch-dashboard.shand possiblylocal/low-battery.shto usexhinstead ofht. Most op the command line options should still be compatible, though there are some changes. - Start dashboard with
/mnt/us/dashboard/start.sh.
Note that the device will go into suspend about 10-15 seconds after you start the dashboard.
Before you start
- How hard is it?
- HardUses the command line or developer tools.
- 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.
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Did it work for you?
Did kindle-dash v1.0.0-beta.4 work on your Amazon Kindle 4?
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Compatibility
Devices: Amazon Kindle 4.
No compatibility information yet.
Getting started
From the project's README ("Installation"):
- Download the latest release on your computer and extract it.
- Modify local/fetch-dashboard.sh and optionally local/env.sh.
- Copy the files to the Kindle, for example: rsync -vr ./ kindle:/mnt/us/dashboard.
- Start dashboard with /mnt/us/dashboard/start.sh. Note that the device will go into suspend about 10-15 seconds after you start the dashboard.
Risk and recovery
- Brick risk
- Low
- Requires opening the device
- No
Releases
| Version | Name | Released |
|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0-beta.4 | —Latest | 27 July 2022 |
| v1.0.0-beta.3 | — | 3 February 2021 |
| v1.0.0-beta-2 | — | 27 January 2021 |
| v1.0.0-beta-1 | — | 26 January 2021 |
Credits, license and support
- License
- MIT