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!

[–] zolax@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

wow this is great

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Szybet@discuss.online 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Szybet@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is there a list of supported devices?

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[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is very interesting. Do you have information on the minimum specs for the os?

[–] Szybet@discuss.online 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, is this your project? Congratulations for the initiative. It looks awesome.

[–] Szybet@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago

I'm not the creator but the only other person that contributes in a major way. "Second developer" as I like to call it