kindle-dashboard-device
Displays real-time weather, motorsport and sailing schedules, stock prices and news headlines from curated RSS sources — all fetched from a self-hosted backend and cached for offline reading.
- Sideload / dev mode
- Alpha
- Low brick risk
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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.
Did it work for you?
Did kindle-dashboard-device 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"):
> ⚠️ Installation is currently a work in progress. A future release will include a KUAL extension installer and may require Git on the device. For now, SSH access is required — either via diagnostic mode or USBNetworking.
SSH into the Kindle (requires USBNetworking enabled via KUAL) ssh root@192.168.15.244
Create the app directory mkdir -p /mnt/us/dashboard
Copy the app from your computer scp -r app/ root@192.168.15.244:/mnt/us/dashboard/
KUAL Extension
The KUAL launcher extension (start/stop dashboard) is installed on the device but not yet tracked in this repository. This is a known gap — see open issues.
Risk and recovery
- Brick risk
- Low
- Requires opening the device
- No