KindleBerry Pi.

Hi everyone.

I have spent a couple weeks working on the issues presented in this thread. I'm going to do a writeup! It isn't complete yet, but bear with me. I'm adding photos and videos soon once the writing part is complete.

The title is: Pi k3w – Kindle 3 display for Raspberry Pi

Check it out on Wordpress: http://wp.me/p2k10-4

Enjoy!

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Great Work!

Are you using wireless on the Kindle and Raspberry Pi? or the USB network?

Did you find that the difficult bit is getting screen to clone on log on via ssh.  I found this very tempermental.

Also, I have not got an Ad-Hoc up and running with the Raspberry Pi and the kindle.  This is becasue I could not get into the /etc/network/interfaces file via terminal on the Kindle - I didn't know how to get a "/" but I have solved that now.

Nice to here someone is also working on this.

Great Work!

Are you using wireless on the Kindle and Raspberry Pi? or the USB network?

Did you find that the difficult bit is getting screen to clone on log on via ssh.  I found this very tempermental.

Also, I have not got an Ad-Hoc up and running with the Raspberry Pi and the kindle.  This is becasue I could not get into the /etc/network/interfaces file via terminal on the Kindle - I didn't know how to get a "/" but I have solved that now.

Nice to here someone is also working on this.

Hi Fergus Byrne,

Nope, not using wireless sorry the two photos I posted here exclude the USB cable coming out of the Kindle. Yes I am using USBnetwork Check out the article in the post for lots more detail!

As for difficulties with screen, no I didn't have problems with screen, actually I used a different terminal multiplexer called tmux. The problem was really in the script that Damaru posted though. The script for auto joining the screen session was seriously botched. I found a more elegant solution that works very well. I'm going to complete writing that section of the blog tomorrow if you would like to check back!

Let me know about your progress with wireless. I am pretty sure mobileread forum: http://www.mobileread.com/ has a lot of information about using the wireless. I just haven't looked into it personally. It's next on my todo after getting all of this stuff written

Did you see my rant regarding the use of about.txt, is that how you figured out the forwardslash? ;D

Thanks for the reply!

The problem was really in the script that Damaru posted though. The script for auto joining the screen session was seriously botched

This is what I meant.  The script that was posted did not work.

Did you see my rant regarding the use of about.txt, is that how you figured out the forwardslash? ;D

Nope.  I just google it and experimented till I got somewhere.

I will be updating the article with the script today, and for future reference, the about.txt can give you all of the keyboard symbol combinations so you don't have to try them all!

Are you the person who did the original KindleBerry Pi that was on the front page?

Nope, that guy is Damaru! I finished my article today! Check it out: http://wp.me/p2k10-4

I will check this later.  Looks good after a quick read.