Kindle_Dashboard
An eink dashboard built atop of a kindle
- Sideload / dev mode
- Abandoned
- Low brick risk
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Before you start
- How hard is it?
- HardUses the command line or developer tools.
- What you need
- 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.
Did it work for you?
Did Kindle_Dashboard work on your Amazon Kindle 4?
No reports yet.
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Compatibility
Devices: Amazon Kindle 4.
No compatibility information yet.
Getting started
From the project's README ("Installation"):
to stop the kindle from going to sleep you can open the keyboard and type ~ds. to turn auto sleep back on, open the keyboard again and type ~ds
on computer run the bundle script in the project root directory to bundle the project into a zip then copy zip to kindle: scp bundle.zip root@{kindle ip}:/mnt/us/
on kindle cd into /mnt/us unzip bundle.zip cd into dashboard ./start.sh & will start the script and detach from it so that it will run in the background
that's it. You can put your kindle in a photo frame to hide the body or build a small stand for it
Risk and recovery
- Brick risk
- Low
- Requires opening the device
- No