Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life

Re:Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life by dh-g on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:25PM (#25546563)

This is my project, was very happy to see it suddenly on the front page.

I've been using it for over a year and its consistently been useful if anyone is on the fence about building one.

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Re:Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life by dkarp on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:34AM (#25550913)

I did a similar project with Kindle Paperwhite running for over 2 months on a full charge. It would boot early each morning, connect to wifi, pull latest weather and news, generate a png containing weather and news, show the png on the screen, shut down wifi, set RTC to boot again tomorrow and power down.

The problem I had is that eventually when it ran out of battery, I charged it and the process didn't kick off again. Probably I just need to ssh back in a get it going again, but I lost interest at that point!

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Re:Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life by igonvalue on Saturday December 26, 2020 @09:42PM (#25548374)

In order for this to work, one needs to jailbreak the Kindle. Is there a way to jailbreak a Kindle Oasis running the 5.12.x firmware? (My reading of the MobileRead Forums says this is impossible.)

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Re:Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life by captn3m0 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:34AM (#25549519)

Not possible currently.

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Re:Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life by danbruder on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:34PM (#25546616)

Thanks for sharing this. Very cool use case for old kindles

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