2022-07-01, 01:52 PM
It was a long time ago and my memory is a bit shaky but I did get a kindle display working on my boat to to display boat speed using kplex and a couple of other bits and pieces before openplotter was a thing.
Anyway the problem that I had was the Kindle wants to call home and therefore if it is not on the internet it just doesn't work. From memory the way I got around it was to set up a DNS server on the pi to redirect the Kindle's requests so that it thought it was online.
It is too long ago and I have long since lost all the details on exactly how I did it so I cannot be much more help that this but hopefully it is enough info to get you on the right track.
Anyway the problem that I had was the Kindle wants to call home and therefore if it is not on the internet it just doesn't work. From memory the way I got around it was to set up a DNS server on the pi to redirect the Kindle's requests so that it thought it was online.
It is too long ago and I have long since lost all the details on exactly how I did it so I cannot be much more help that this but hopefully it is enough info to get you on the right track.