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Kindle Apps & Services

The Kindle has many apps/services which communicated via LIPC, which is similar to dbus in many respsects.

LIPC values are wrapped in square brackets ([]), these should be excluded when writing to a LIPC entry

This entire section is a WIP and is incomplete

How to use

LIPC can be interacted with through the command line as so:

lipc-set-prop <name> <property> <value> # Set a property value

lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 1 # Disable screensaver
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.appmgrd start app://com.lab126.booklet.home # Open the home "app"



lipc-get-prop <name> <property> # Get a property value

lipc-get-prop com.lab126.btfd isBtchRunning # Check if BTch is running

List of apps/services

The following list was obtained via the following command run on the Kindle:

lipc-probe -a -v

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