pgaskin/kobo-mods

My Kobo mods/hacks/tools which aren't patches and aren't in koboutils.

kobo-mods

My Kobo mods which aren't patches.

Binaries for the latest commit can be downloaded here.

Mod	Description	Usage	Status
kobo-dotfile-hack-ng	Prevents Nickel from discovering and importing dotfiles/folders. Improved version of kobo-dotfile-hack.	General	Complete
NickelMenu	Adds custom menu items to nickel.	General	Complete, Released
NickelSeries	Adds series (and subtitle) metadata support to libnickel.	General	Stable, Released
dictword-test	This tool gets the prefix used for word lookup in the dictionary directly from libnickel.	Debugging	Complete
kobo-dotfile-hack	Since FW 4.17.13651, Kobo will import from dotfiles/folders. This is a LD_PRELOAD hack to fix that.	General	Complete, Released, Superseded
dictbug-trace	This LD_PRELOAD library logs some dictionary-related things to syslog.	Debugging	As-is

Mods in bold are actively maintained.

Status:

• POC: Barely-working, work may or may not be continued, not stable.
• As-is: For testing only, updated as needed, may not be stable.
• Experimental: Basic features complete, may not be stable yet, major missing feature.
• Beta: All major features completed.
• Stable: All major features completed, stable.
• Complete: All planned features completed, stable.
• Released: Ready for general usage.

Abandoned mods:

• kobopatch-livepatch

kobo-mods's Issues

How to uninstall kobo-dotfiles-hack (non-ng version)?

Assuming I know how to get SSH/telnet working, what steps do I need to take to uninstall the non-ng kobo-dotfiles-hack?

Binary download link is dead (build artifacts deleted after 1 month)

The download link for the binaries on the project page no longer works.

Looks the build artifact retention policy has changed.

Support for CBZ

Would it be possible to add support for CBZ files?

NickelSeries not working on Kobo Libra2

I installed NickleSeries on my Kobo Libra 2 but nothing seams to happen when I transfer a new .kepub to the device.

Background:
I'm using https://github.com/cyrilis/epub-gen for generating epub3 files. But since it didn't have support for adding collections/series I forked the repo and added the functionallity and created a PR. Currently I'm using my fork in wait for PR to be merged(hopefully).
My fork is here: https://github.com/wirdehall/epub-gen

Example of metadata I'm adding with my fork:

<meta property="belongs-to-collection" id="collection">Zenith of Sorcery</meta>
<meta refines="#collection" property="collection-type">series</meta>
<meta refines="#collection" property="group-position">1</meta>

After that I use Kepubify to convert the .epub (v3) to .kepub.

I have tried to sideload books both using kobo desktop (ie. usb) and the dropbox functionallity using NickelMenu.
I have used new books on every try.
Nothing seams to work. I am only transferring the .kepub books as I want the metadata that comes with them, could that be a problem?

Lastly I tried using Seriesmeta on my already uploaded books and all my unsuccessful transfers now worked so it appears the meta-data is correct.
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I even tried to uninstall and re-install NS but it did not help.
Any help at this point is appreciated, I want my workflow to be as automated as possible so this mod would be amazing if I could get it to work.

Best Regards
@wirdehall

NickelSeries not importing subtitle

I installed NickelSeries on a Libra 2 running firmware version 4.38.21908, but after testing, the subtitle isn't passing without connecting a second time to the PC.

Keep in mind that I'm using the template "{#subseries} {#subseries_index}" for the subtitle on KoboTouchExtended. It works if I connect the Kobo a second time.

KoboTouchExtended is set to "update metadata on device" and "sending books to devices" set to "Automatic management"