# pascalw/kindle-dash

Power efficient dashboard for Kindle 4 NT devices

Repository: https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kindle-dash
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: kindle, jailbreak
Last push: 2024-03-04T13:34:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2047, "days_push": 912, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1375, forks 46 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:33.090992+00:00)

## What it is
A shell-based application that turns jailbroken Kindle 4 NT e-ink devices into power-efficient dashboards. It periodically fetches a pre-rendered image over HTTP(s), displays it on the Kindle screen, and suspends the device to RAM between updates to conserve battery.

## Use cases
- display a home dashboard on an old Kindle
- show a weather or calendar widget on an e-ink screen
- repurpose a jailbroken Kindle as a low-power status display
- periodically refresh a PNG dashboard image on a Kindle
- build an energy-efficient wall-mounted info panel
- render a web dashboard elsewhere and show it on Kindle

## When to choose
- you have a jailbroken Kindle 4 NT (or similar) you want to reuse
- you want an extremely low-power always-on display
- you already render your dashboard image on a server and just need to display it
- you prefer a simple shell-based setup with cron-style scheduling

## When to avoid
- your Kindle is not jailbroken
- you want the dashboard rendered directly on the device
- you need interactive or frequently updating content
- you use a Kindle model that is untested and cannot adapt the scripts

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: workflow-automation, scheduling, http-client, developer-tools
- domain: self-hosted, hardware, developer-tools
- platform: embedded, cli
- tags: kindle, e-ink, dashboard, jailbreak, low-power, shell, automation, linux

## Member repositories
- pascalw/kindle-dash (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.090992+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:40:35.036542+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.090992+00:00, sha dbf159bce289)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.