Kobo WebPortal / Notes / ServiceMenu

The Kobo Web Portal is a local webserver, running on your Kobo. It has a HTML landing page with links to several sites. It can also run CGI scripts and thus provide you with browser-based apps.

Unfortunately it won't work if no wifi network is available, since the Kobo refuses to start the webbrowser. But it does come with a small hack that allows intranet wifi networks (without real internet connectivity).

After installation it can be reached via http://webportal/ and you can choose to "Set Page as Home" in Kobo's webbrowser settings.

To install, copy KoboRoot-WebPortal.tgz » .kobo/KoboRoot.tgz

After the installation you will find the following files:

• .webportal/cgi-bin/notes (sample CGI script, see below)
• .webportal/cgi-bin/servicemenu (sample CGI script, see blow)
• .webportal/httpd.conf (webserver configuration file)
• .webportal/index.html (WebPortal landing page, edit to your liking)
• .webportal/ncsi.txt (part of the intranet wifi hack)
• .webportal/vhosts.conf (vhosts configuration file, also part of the intranet wifi hack)

Note: These files will be overwritten any time you install this mod. If you customize these files, make backups! Alternatively set a different home directory in httpd.conf and make your customizations in that directory.

To uninstall, create .webportal/uninstall and reboot the device. It will be renamed to .webportal/uninstall-date-time and you can remove the .webportal directory yourself.

Notes

Read, write and edit notes as plain text files in your webbrowser. They will be stored in /notes/file.txt. May be useful for shopping lists or something.

ServiceMenu

Checks internal and external memory for read errors. Also has an option to format the external card. (On the iriver Story HD, this mod could also format the internal card, and delete the book database, but I've disabled it here).


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The 5 people who already downloaded this the day it was released (30-Jun-15) should redownload it. There was a bug in the uninstall/update routine.

Another issue I believe is a Kobo bug: If you set a different start page in the browser but that page becomes unavailable, it breaks Wifi - device will always say "oops something went wrong" even if there is nothing whatsoever wrong with the connection. Therefore if you used "Set Page as Home" to set WebPortal as entry page, you should set it back to Google (or something reliable) before uninstalling the WebPortal mod.

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KoboRoot-WebPortal.zip (5.8 KB)