Can screen be always on?

[mu88]

Hi 👋🏻

I'm looking for a way to display a dashboard of my smart home solution openHAB on an E-reader and stumbled across your project.

For this, I need to display a website based on Vue.js. Does inkbox support the screen to be always on? Or will it always turn off after some time.

Thanks!

[Szybet]

it can be set in the settings of the "InkBox power daemon"

You should more worry about showing the website, i don't know if midori browser will launch it, someone launched an old version of firefox on a kobo, maybe firefox will better handle javascript

[mu88]

On a Linux desktop, e. g. Raspberry Pi you mean?

[tux-linux]

Do you know any way to test this beforehand, e. g. via an emulator of midori or inkbox? Because I'd need to buy a device for inkbox and if possible, I would like to know before whether it'll work 😉

Just run midori and check ram usage of it ( ereaders don't have much ram ) @tux-linux is the latest version of midori used in inkbox?

It is the latest available as of 6/2022.

[Szybet]

On a Linux desktop, e. g. Raspberry Pi you mean?

Yep, any linux system

If ram doesnt exceed the 80% of the ereader ram, then you should be fine

Btw we don't promise it will work for your website on the ereader, no responsibility on us.

[dimatx]

@mu88 were you successful in having a website launch on boot in full screen mode? Looking to try to use it for a Home Assistant dashboard. I'd serve a PNG (to avoid it having to serve a more complex page with JS), and would want the device to refresh every so often (say every few minutes). Thoughts on whether this is achievable based on your tinkering?

[mu88]

@dimatx: I didn't continue this approach. Instead, I launched my own little project, see here: https://github.com/mu88/ScreenshotCreator/