Comments on: Kindle Weather Display

By: Horton

Horton — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:05:53 +0000

Got it running now.
To display the weather i used the “start.sh” from here:
https://github.com/x-magic/kindle-weather-stand-alone
It disables a lot of services to save Battery and works with a loop instead of cron. Updating every 30 minutes took 6% from battery in 24h. So it should run at least 2 weeks on battery.

By: Horton

Horton — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:13:14 +0000

In reply to Matthew Petroff.

Okay – my adapter arrived today and i was able to delete the init script – now the kindle is booting normal again. Puh… ;-)

By: Horton

Horton — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 06:28:51 +0000

In reply to Matthew Petroff. That is ending in the same behavior. I am waiting now for a TTL adapter to try acessing it this way...

By: Matthew Petroff

Matthew Petroff — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:48:43 +0000

In reply to Horton. If you hold the power button down for long enough (40 seconds, apparently), the Kindle will reboot. Neither of those commands should do anything permanent. However, I'm sure the Kindle's firmware has changed significantly in the decade since I wrote this post.

By: Horton

Horton — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:15:07 +0000

Put /etc/init.d/framework stop and /etc/init.d/powerd stop in the startup directory of kite – and now i have no chance to access the kindle anymore. Bricked…