Hi,
I am trying to code my very first PocketBook bash script. I wanted a little tool to send the device to "sleep" (which is no real sleep, but a simple reboot) after a certain amount of time (so that I could e.g. listen to audiobooks and the playback would be stopped at some point automatically).
This is what I came up with so far:
So far this works on my PB Verse Pro. To make it a bit prettier, I was wondering if I could show the minutes left until the device goes to sleep on the screen (and, ideally, add some extend and cancel button). I suppose a bash script is not really supposed for this kind of work, but I will most certainly not start to learn C for this :D
I tried to do something like this in the loop, but it did not seem to work stably:
Do you have any other ideas?
I am trying to code my very first PocketBook bash script. I wanted a little tool to send the device to "sleep" (which is no real sleep, but a simple reboot) after a certain amount of time (so that I could e.g. listen to audiobooks and the playback would be stopped at some point automatically).
This is what I came up with so far:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
SH_IVTOOL=/mnt/ext1/applications/sh_ivtool.app
sleep_time=`$SH_IVTOOL -n "Enter sleep in time in mins (or leave empty to cancel):"`
# workaround to strip away trailing "latinime: Loading /ebrmain/share/latinime//EN.dict" string
sleep_time=${sleep_time:51}
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
while [[ $sleep_time -ne 0 ]]; do
sleep 60
sleep_time=$((sleep_time-1))
done
iv2sh reboot
fi
exit 0I tried to do something like this in the loop, but it did not seem to work stably:
Code:
while [[ $sleep_time -ne 0 ]]; do
$SH_IVTOOL -s "Will go to sleep in $sleep_time mins $pid" &
pid=$!
sleep 2 # 2 seconds for testing purposes
iv2sh SendEventTo -9 "$pid"
sleep_time=$((sleep_time-1))
done