You are awesome! Can't wait and my 120.000 Pictures gallery is thanking you big time!

Hi! I'm having an internal debate that is getting stuck at the moment.  I'm using the calibre rdp dockers with the content server enabled.

 

It's working great but I have one problem in that my kobo's Web browser can't handle the built in authentication that calibre uses.

 

Additionally,  I'm using the linuxserver version of letsencrypt to access the content server, but again the same kobo browser can't handle the basic auth. 

 

So I'm wondering,  will I be opening myself up to significant risk by having the content server running at https://books.domain.com running without auth? I just don't know about the risks when it comes to a docker like this. 

 

As further info, I've also run ubooquity with auth successfully on kobo, but want to switch to calibre because ubooquity often can't transfer book files to the kobo. I'd switch to kindle but the rest of the family all have kobos now too. Sigh..

 

Thanks! 

Hi guys - A quick question about bulk book import... 

 

I'm currently suffering from having my docker.img file totally fill up on large ebook imports...

 

I run a 50gb Docker ISO image... And when i point a large zip file of comics etc to Calibre it fills it up very quickly... Would i be right in assuming that /tmp for calibre needs to be mapped outside of the image? It seems cailbre ebook import grinds to a half when the docker image is totally full (not to mention it effects other running containers) 

 

Havnt been able to confirm which temp folder calibre uses to do its mass imports but was assuming /tmp from within the container. I know calibre also has variables that can define this path https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html but not sure whether they are available to be used when running calibre as a container and whether they need to be built/passed through the unraid template to be used?

 

Any help would be awesome...

9 hours ago, thestraycat said:

Hi guys - A quick question about bulk book import... 

 

I'm currently suffering from having my docker.img file totally fill up on large ebook imports...

 

I run a 50gb Docker ISO image... And when i point a large zip file of comics etc to Calibre it fills it up very quickly... Would i be right in assuming that /tmp for calibre needs to be mapped outside of the image? It seems cailbre ebook import grinds to a half when the docker image is totally full (not to mention it effects other running containers) 

 

Havnt been able to confirm which temp folder calibre uses to do its mass imports but was assuming /tmp from within the container. I know calibre also has variables that can define this path https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html but not sure whether they are available to be used when running calibre as a container and whether they need to be built/passed through the unraid template to be used?

 

Any help would be awesome...

 

If calibre is indeed using the /tmp location (I don't know whether it does or not) you can simply map it to any location on your unraid in the container settings. No need to mess with calibre settings

Question about Dolphin - is it possible to browse files on a disc inserted into a DVD or BD drive?

38 minutes ago, dave said:

Question about Dolphin - is it possible to browse files on a disc inserted into a DVD or BD drive?

I don't see how. Is it even possible to mount a DVD or BD drive in unRAID?

9 hours ago, trurl said:

I don't see how. Is it even possible to mount a DVD or BD drive in unRAID?

No, I don't think so. But was maybe hoping there was a way similar to how other Dockers access the drives (ex: MakeMKV, Ripper).

5 hours ago, dave said:

No, I don't think so. But was maybe hoping there was a way similar to how other Dockers access the drives (ex: MakeMKV, Ripper).

 

If the drives are mounted on the host, you can map those locations in the container settings

Is there any chance to get a second instance running?

 

Edited October 8, 20179 yr by theboing

1 hour ago, theboing said:

Is there any chance to get a second instance running?

 

 

Second instance of what? 

Hi. I have made a video about setting up RDP calibre and cops here.

Hope some people may find it useful

 

Excellent, thanks 

HI,

Few noob questions. I'm using the RDP Calibre docker

 

1. Is the calibre in this container supposed to be self updating ? My Calibre docker is on 3.1.1 while update avaialbe in 3.11.1 , clicking on update does nothing

2. I understand the Edge variable has to be turned to 1, but whenever I do so , UI just won't launch , turning to back to 0 starts it 

 

Any ideas?

Edited November 4, 20178 yr by pakiyabhai
Clearing for which docker

9 minutes ago, pakiyabhai said:

HI,

Few noob questions

 

1. Is the calibre in this container supposed to be self updating ? My Calibre docker is on 3.1.1 while update avaialbe in 3.11.1 , clicking on update does nothing

2. I understand the Edge variable has to be turned to 1, but whenever I do so , UI just won't launch , turning to back to 0 starts it 

 

Any ideas?

 

Set edge to 1, and watch the logs. Sometimes it takes a long time to download the updated calibre during which time there is no ui

2 hours ago, aptalca said:

 

Set edge to 1, and watch the logs. Sometimes it takes a long time to download the updated calibre during which time there is no ui

 

Thanks for the quick reply !!

The logs show that Calibre is being downloaded but I"m not able to install it. 
It's a fresh install and nothing else is on the Unraid machine. 

 

Quote

 

 

RDP Calibre.txt

Edited November 4, 20178 yr by pakiyabhai
Attached complete LOG

HI,

In addition to the above logs , I looked at the logs and found this when running with Edge=1

 

2017-11-05 02:06:27 URL:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py [27407/27407] -> "-" [1]
Creating symlinks...
Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrf2lrs to /usr/bin/lrf2lrs
Symlinking /opt/calibre/fetch-ebook-metadata to /usr/bin/fetch-ebook-metadata
Symlinking /opt/calibre/markdown-calibre to /usr/bin/markdown-calibre
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-edit to /usr/bin/ebook-edit
Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrfviewer to /usr/bin/lrfviewer
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-debug to /usr/bin/calibre-debug
Symlinking /opt/calibre/web2disk to /usr/bin/web2disk
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-viewer to /usr/bin/ebook-viewer
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-customize to /usr/bin/calibre-customize
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-polish to /usr/bin/ebook-polish
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-meta to /usr/bin/ebook-meta
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-server to /usr/bin/calibre-server
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre to /usr/bin/calibre
Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrs2lrf to /usr/bin/lrs2lrf
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibredb to /usr/bin/calibredb
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-smtp to /usr/bin/calibre-smtp
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-convert to /usr/bin/ebook-convert
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-parallel to /usr/bin/calibre-parallel
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-device to /usr/bin/ebook-device
Setting up command-line completion...
Failed to find directory to install bash completions, using default.
Installing bash completion to: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/calibre
Setting up desktop integration...

____________________ WARNING ____________________
Setting up desktop integration failed with error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/linux.py", line 813, in setup_desktop_integration
File "site-packages/calibre/linux.py", line 798, in install_icons
File "site-packages/calibre/linux.py", line 792, in install_single_icon
File "subprocess.py", line 536, in check_call
File "subprocess.py", line 523, in call
File "subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
File "subprocess.py", line 1343, in _execute_child
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Creating un-installer: /usr/bin/calibre-uninstall
 

 

Again complete noobie , Google showed that this error could be due to requriement of calibre for , glibc >= 2.13 and libstdc++ from gcc >= 4.7

 

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244799

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1363731

 

Ofcourse I have no clues what it means and what to do . 

I can confirm that the latest version of calibre doesn't work in this container. Since the baseimage it's using was coded by someone else, it may not be fixed. I'll look into it but no promises

Edited November 5, 20178 yr by aptalca

1 hour ago, aptalca said:

I can confirm that the latest version of calibre doesn't work in this container. Since the baseimage it's using was coded by someone else, it may not be fixed. I'll look into it but no promises

 

 

Thanks man , really appreciated . This really drove me nuts. 

11 hours ago, aptalca said:

I can confirm that the latest version of calibre doesn't work in this container. Since the baseimage it's using was coded by someone else, it may not be fixed. I'll look into it but no promises

Let me know.  In the meantime, I'll throw a comment within CA to not use the Edge variable.

12 hours ago, Squid said:

Let me know.  In the meantime, I'll throw a comment within CA to not use the Edge variable.

 

A comment would be great for now. Until I can figure out whether I can fix it or not. 

 

Thanks

I'd like to second the request on updating the digiKam container to the latest version. Any luck with that?

4 hours ago, clomads said:

I'd like to second the request on updating the digiKam container to the latest version. Any luck with that?

 

I haven't had time to look into it yet

i tested the calibre rdp server and its working nice and easy.

 

may i ask if its possible to also access it from externally through apache guacamole ?

 

i use it to access jdown RDP, Windows RDP ... but on calibre RDP it just times out ... anything special todo ?

 

for an tip thanks ahead

 

solved, added 3389 container port so its all good.

Edited November 6, 20178 yr by alturismo

Just wanted to add that Calibre is now updating itself with latest version . 

 

However , with both the latest and the current docker version , auto importing of books happen only when the docker start (or is restarted) , it's not auto -adding the books from the directory as it should