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# CrossPoint Reader
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# CrossPoint Reader (Mod)
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Firmware for the **Xteink X4** e-paper display reader (unaffiliated with Xteink).
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Built using **PlatformIO** and targeting the **ESP32-C3** microcontroller.
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A modified fork of [CrossPoint Reader](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader) for the **Xteink X4**
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e-paper display reader. Built using **PlatformIO** and targeting the **ESP32-C3** microcontroller.
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CrossPoint Reader is a purpose-built firmware designed to be a drop-in, fully open-source replacement for the official
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Xteink firmware. It aims to match or improve upon the standard EPUB reading experience.
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This mod is maintained on the `mod/master` branch and tracks upstream `master`. It ports upstream PRs ahead of merge
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and adds features not yet available in the official project, including bookmarks, dictionary lookup, a clock, book
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management with archiving, an overhauled reader menu, and various rendering and performance improvements.
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> **Upstream:** [crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader)
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@@ -12,7 +15,7 @@ Xteink firmware. It aims to match or improve upon the standard EPUB reading expe
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E-paper devices are fantastic for reading, but most commercially available readers are closed systems with limited
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customisation. The **Xteink X4** is an affordable, e-paper device, however the official firmware remains closed.
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CrossPoint exists partly as a fun side-project and partly to open up the ecosystem and truely unlock the device's
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CrossPoint exists partly as a fun side-project and partly to open up the ecosystem and truly unlock the device's
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potential.
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CrossPoint Reader aims to:
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* Support **customisable font, layout, and display** options.
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* Run purely on the **Xteink X4 hardware**.
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This project is **not affiliated with Xteink**; it's built as a community project.
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This mod exists to iterate faster on features and fixes while upstream reviews and merges PRs at its own pace. It is
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**not affiliated with Xteink** or the upstream CrossPoint project; it's a personal fork built on top of their work.
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## History
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This mod was forked at [#46c2109](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/commit/46c2109f1fe5cb41ef1a84a15eeb3db64cdca082). A major sync took place at v1.1.0-rc.
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## Features & Usage
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This is not all-inclusive, but in general:
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- [x] EPUB parsing and rendering (EPUB 2 and EPUB 3)
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- [ ] Image support within EPUB
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- [x] Image support within EPUB (JPEG and PNG)
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- [x] Table rendering within EPUB
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- [x] Saved reading position
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- [x] Bookmarks (add, remove, navigate with snippet preview)
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- [x] Dictionary lookup (offline, StarDict format)
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- [x] File explorer with file picker
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- [x] Basic EPUB picker from root directory
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- [x] Support nested folders
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- [x] File extensions displayed
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- [x] Expandable selected row for long filenames
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- [ ] EPUB picker with cover art
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- [x] Book management (archive, unarchive, delete, reindex)
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- [x] Clock display (12h/24h, NTP sync, timezone support)
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- [x] Custom sleep screen
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- [x] Cover sleep screen
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- [x] Letterbox fill modes (Solid, Dithered, None) with per-book override
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- [x] Placeholder covers for books without embedded cover images
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- [x] Wifi book upload
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- [x] Wifi OTA updates
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- [x] Configurable font, layout, and display options
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- [ ] User provided fonts
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- [ ] Full UTF support
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- [x] Screen rotation
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- [x] Screen rotation (Portrait, Landscape CW, Inverted, Landscape CCW)
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- [x] End-of-book interactive menu
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- [x] Silent background chapter pre-indexing
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Multi-language support: Read EPUBs in various languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, [and more](./USER_GUIDE.md#supported-languages).
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@@ -47,28 +68,115 @@ See [the user guide](./USER_GUIDE.md) for instructions on operating CrossPoint.
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For more details about the scope of the project, see the [SCOPE.md](SCOPE.md) document.
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## What This Mod Adds
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This section describes features and improvements in the mod that are not present in upstream CrossPoint Reader.
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### Reading Enhancements
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* **Bookmarks** — Save and remove bookmarks per book. Each bookmark stores a snippet (first sentence) for quick
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identification. A ribbon indicator marks bookmarked pages. Navigate bookmarks via the reader menu.
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* **Dictionary lookup** — Offline word lookup using StarDict-format dictionaries stored in `/.dictionary/` on the SD
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card. Supports stemming, fuzzy matching, edit-distance suggestions, and lookup history. The dictionary index is cached
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to a binary file for fast subsequent access.
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* **Table rendering** — EPUB tables render with column alignment, colspan support, HTML/CSS width hints, cell padding,
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borders, and `<br>` line breaks within cells. Full-width spanning cells are center-aligned.
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* **End-of-book menu** — An interactive menu at the end of a book (Archive, Delete, Back to Beginning, Close) replaces
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the static end-of-book text.
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* **Long-press Confirm** — While reading, long-pressing Confirm opens the Table of Contents directly, bypassing the
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reader menu.
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### Home Screen & Navigation
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* **Clock** — Displays in all screen headers. Configurable format (off, 12h AM/PM, 24h) and size (small, medium,
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large). Supports NTP time sync over WiFi, timezone presets (UTC, US time zones), and custom UTC offset.
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* **Adaptive home screen** — Book card sizing adjusts based on cover aspect ratio. The home screen integrates with
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recent books and book management.
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* **File browser improvements** — File extensions are shown alongside filenames. When a selected filename overflows the
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row width, the row expands to two lines with smart text wrapping (breaks at dashes/separators, then word boundaries,
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then character-level).
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* **Long-press shortcuts** — Long-press on a book in the home screen or recents opens the book management menu.
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Long-press on "Browse Files" opens the archive browser (`/.archive/`).
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### Book Management
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* **Archive** — Move books to `/.archive/` on the SD card, preserving directory structure. Unarchive restores them to
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their original location.
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* **Manage Book menu** — A popup menu accessible from the home screen, file browser, recents, reader menu, and
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end-of-book menu. Actions include archive/unarchive, delete book, delete cache, reindex, and full reindex.
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* **Recent books** — A dedicated recent books list with book management integration.
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### Reader Menu
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* **Long-press actions** — Long-press "Lookup Word" to open the Looked Up Words history. Long-press "Toggle
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Orientation" to open a sub-menu for selecting any of the four orientations (Portrait, Landscape CW, Inverted,
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Landscape CCW).
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* **Letterbox fill** — Short-press cycles through letterbox fill modes (Default, Dithered, Solid, None). Per-book
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overrides are stored in `BookSettings`.
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* **Landscape CCW** — A fourth orientation option. All text rendering, button hints, and dictionary layout support
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counter-clockwise landscape.
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### Display & Rendering
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* **Silent pre-indexing** — The next chapter is pre-indexed in the background when approaching a chapter boundary.
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Configurable display mode: popup, status bar text, or status bar icon.
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* **Placeholder covers** — Books without an embedded cover image get a generated placeholder (title, author, icon
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layout) for the home screen and sleep screen.
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* **Sleep screen letterbox fill** — Multiple fill modes for the letterbox area around cover images on the sleep screen,
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with per-book override support.
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### Performance
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Several upstream PRs have been ported ahead of their merge into upstream `master`:
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* **Byte-level framebuffer writes** — 232-470x speedup for `fillRect`, `fillRectDither`, and axis-aligned `drawLine`
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operations. Upstream [PR #1055](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1055).
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* **Word-width cache and hyphenation early exit** — 5-9% layout time reduction via a 128-entry direct-mapped cache and
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monotonic early exit in the hyphenation loop. Upstream
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[PR #1027](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1027).
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* **`std::list` to `std::vector` in text layout** — 11% faster chapter parse time and ~50KB heap savings. Upstream
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[PR #1038](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1038).
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* **Combining mark rendering** — Proper rendering of decomposed Unicode characters with NFC-like precomposition for
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hyphenation pattern matching. Upstream
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[PR #1037](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1037).
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* **URL hyphenation** — Long URLs can now be line-wrapped at path separators without crashing. Upstream
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[PR #1068](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1068).
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For detailed porting notes and differences from upstream, see [mod/prs/MERGED.md](mod/prs/MERGED.md). Note that this document was created well after many features were added manually so it is not all-inclusive. Sorry!
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## Upstream Compatibility
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This mod tracks upstream `master` and manually ports relevant PRs. Some upstream features are not present in the mod,
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and the mod's build configuration differs slightly.
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**Features on upstream `master` not yet in the mod:**
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* Catalan language support
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* Improved Spanish translations
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**Build differences:**
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* The `[env:mod]` build environment omits the OpenDyslexic font and some hyphenation patterns (German, Spanish, French,
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Italian, Russian) to save flash space. These can be re-enabled by using `[env:default]` or removing the corresponding
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`-DOMIT_*` flags.
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* The mod version string is `<version>-mod+<git-hash>` (e.g., `1.1.2-mod+abc1234`).
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See [mod/prs/MERGED.md](mod/prs/MERGED.md) for the full list of upstream PRs ported into this mod, including what was
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changed or enhanced during the port.
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## Installing
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### Web (latest firmware)
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This mod is built from source. There is no web flasher for the mod firmware.
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1. Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C and wake/unlock the device
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2. Go to https://xteink.dve.al/ and click "Flash CrossPoint firmware"
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Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C, wake/unlock the device, and run:
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To revert back to the official firmware, you can flash the latest official firmware from https://xteink.dve.al/, or swap
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back to the other partition using the "Swap boot partition" button here https://xteink.dve.al/debug.
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```sh
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pio run -e mod --target upload
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```
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### Web (specific firmware version)
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You can also use `pio run -e default --target upload` for a build without the mod's flash-saving omissions (see
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[Upstream Compatibility](#upstream-compatibility)).
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1. Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C
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2. Download the `firmware.bin` file from the release of your choice via the [releases page](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/releases)
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3. Go to https://xteink.dve.al/ and flash the firmware file using the "OTA fast flash controls" section
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To revert back to the official firmware, you can flash the latest official firmware from https://xteink.dve.al/, or swap
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back to the other partition using the "Swap boot partition" button here https://xteink.dve.al/debug.
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### Manual
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See [Development](#development) below.
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To revert to upstream CrossPoint or the official Xteink firmware, flash via https://xteink.dve.al/ or swap back to the
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other partition using the "Swap boot partition" button at https://xteink.dve.al/debug.
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## Development
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### Checking out the code
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CrossPoint uses PlatformIO for building and flashing the firmware. To get started, clone the repository:
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CrossPoint uses PlatformIO for building and flashing the firmware. To get started, clone this repository and check out
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the mod branch:
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git clone --recursive https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
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```sh
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git clone --recursive -b mod/master https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
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# Or, if you've already cloned without --recursive:
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git submodule update --init --recursive
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```
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### Build environments
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| Environment | Description |
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| `mod` | **Recommended.** Includes serial logging, version tagging (`-mod+<hash>`), and omits some fonts/hyphenation patterns to save flash. |
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| `default` | Standard upstream-equivalent build with all fonts and hyphenation patterns included. |
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### Flashing your device
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Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C and run the following command.
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Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C and run:
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```sh
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pio run --target upload
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pio run -e mod --target upload
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```
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### Debugging
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## Contributing
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Contributions are very welcome!
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This is a personal mod fork. If you'd like to contribute to the upstream CrossPoint Reader project, head to the
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[upstream repository](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader) and check out the
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[ideas discussion board](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/categories/ideas).
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If you're looking for a way to help out, take a look at the [ideas discussion board](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/categories/ideas).
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If there's something there you'd like to work on, leave a comment so that we can avoid duplicated effort.
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Everyone here is a volunteer, so please be respectful and patient. For more details on our goverance and community
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principles, please see [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md).
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### To submit a contribution:
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1. Fork the repo
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2. Create a branch (`feature/dithering-improvement`)
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3. Make changes
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4. Submit a PR
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For more details on upstream governance and community principles, see [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md).
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---
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CrossPoint Reader is **not affiliated with Xteink or any manufacturer of the X4 hardware**.
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Huge shoutout to [**diy-esp32-epub-reader** by atomic14](https://github.com/atomic14/diy-esp32-epub-reader), which was a project I took a lot of inspiration from as I
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was making CrossPoint.
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This mod is not **not affilitated with CrossPoint Reader**.
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Huge shoutout to [**diy-esp32-epub-reader** by atomic14](https://github.com/atomic14/diy-esp32-epub-reader), which was
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a project the original CrossPoint author took a lot of inspiration from.
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