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**VIDEO GUIDE ** How to setup Calibre and Cops for ebook management on unRAID **

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Hi Guys. Here is a video tutorial on how to install and setup Calibre and Cops to manage ebooks. 
Setup multiple databases and email books to your readers. These 2 pieces of software work very well together. This video shows how to install the docker containers and configure them so you can easily manage ebooks on your unRAID server.

 

 

Awesome, can I suggest you take a look at Calibre-Web as well.  Very similar to COPS, but has some advantages in ease of setup and not requiring config file editing. ;)

Another great tutorial video.

@CHBMB, thanks for the hint with calibre-web. Really a nice and same web app, with a nice look and feel.

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@CHBMB  @fanningert    thanks, I will take a look at calibre web, cause, yes cops is quite hard to set up. So anything easier if definitely a bonus!  Do you know if you can connect to multiple instances of calibre with calibre-web?

1 minute ago, gridrunner said:

@CHBMB  @fanningert    thanks, I will take a look at calibre web, cause, yes cops is quite hard to set up. So anything easier if definitely a bonus!  Do you know if you can connect to multiple instances of calibre with calibre-web?

 

No, I don't think you can unfortunately.

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10 minutes ago, CHBMB said:

 

No, I don't think you can unfortunately.

Ah was hoping it would. But I don't actually use multiple instances myself but a friend does and was wondering if I should point him to it. I will try calibre web for myself though.

Do you folks do your managing via the server setup? I like to use the Calibre desktop app to do management, then sync to a /media/ebooks share on unRaid, even though it adds a step.

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Things you never knew you wanted/needed... looks good, will give this a go!

I'm attempting to get my ipad to connect to the Calibre server and it never seems to connect. Is there a magic way to make this work or could you give me some insight? I'm attempting to use the Calibre Companion on my ipad

 

This is my mappings from the Docker.

 

 

8080/tcp  192.168.7.127:8001
8081/tcp  192.168.7.127:8002

/Library  /mnt/user/Ebooks/Calibre/Library/
/Downloads  /mnt/user/Ebooks/Calibre/Downloads/
/2import  /mnt/user/Ebooks/Book-Uploads/
/config  /mnt/cache/system/appdata/RDP-Calibre

 

 

 

 

I attempted to connect via 192.168.1.127 using ports 8081, 8001, 8002 and 8003 which is the cops one. Lol

I'm using Medusa docker and its 8081 which is why I can only imagine why it can't connect with that one. In Calibre it gives me the ip of 172.17.0.8 port 8081

  • 4 weeks later...
On 02/11/2017 at 3:26 PM, kizer said:

I'm attempting to get my ipad to connect to the Calibre server and it never seems to connect. Is there a magic way to make this work or could you give me some insight? I'm attempting to use the Calibre Companion on my ipad

 

This is my mappings from the Docker.

 

 

8080/tcp  192.168.7.127:8001
8081/tcp  192.168.7.127:8002

/Library  /mnt/user/Ebooks/Calibre/Library/
/Downloads  /mnt/user/Ebooks/Calibre/Downloads/
/2import  /mnt/user/Ebooks/Book-Uploads/
/config  /mnt/cache/system/appdata/RDP-Calibre

 

 

 

 

I attempted to connect via 192.168.1.127 using ports 8081, 8001, 8002 and 8003 which is the cops one. Lol

I'm using Medusa docker and its 8081 which is why I can only imagine why it can't connect with that one. In Calibre it gives me the ip of 172.17.0.8 port 8081

I have the same issue. I have not been able to find a setting to alter the content server's IP address. My network range 10.1.2.X so a content server of 172.17.0.8 clearly won't work. I am presuming its a Docker issue as I can access a Calibre content server running on one of my local machines.

  • 1 month later...

Is anyone getting an error when they try to install Calibre? I get a "The command failed" every time. 

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56 minutes ago, severanced said:

Is anyone getting an error when they try to install Calibre? I get a "The command failed" every time. 

calibre.PNG

Looks like you failed to set the path to where you want your books stored.

33 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

Looks like you failed to set the path to where you want your books stored.

I figured it out. I had an "&" in the name of my share which messed up the command.

  • 9 months later...

By chance is there an updated guide for setup?  Wife has been asking me to setup for all her eBooks.

  • 4 years later...

Thank you for this. This was a great help in setting up calibre to play nicely with readarr.

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