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Old 01-09-2010, 03:37 PM   #1
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Calibre as a service possible?

I would like to run Calibre as a service or on start up but without requiring a GUI window to be opened (or minimized even).
Basically, I want to set up Calibre to, say, grab some newspapers and ready them for my device so that I can grab them later by simply dragging and dropping them from the directory instead of using the GUI to send them to my device.

I tried calibre-server, but that seems to be only the web interface to the library. It doesn't seem to actually run any jobs (such as downloading a newspaper when scheduled to do so).

So, is this possible?

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Old 01-09-2010, 03:43 PM   #2
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The ebook-convert command will download newspapers.
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Old 01-09-2010, 03:59 PM   #3
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That sounds like I would have to maintain my own schedule and call ebook-convert with a set of parameters to do this.
And, maybe that's what I'll have to do, but I was really hoping to leverage the power of Calibre and it's feed of newsources and the configuration interface to set things up and then just let it run in the background doing it's thing.


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Old 01-09-2010, 04:04 PM   #4
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Have it autostart with the --start-in-tray option
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Old 01-09-2010, 04:49 PM   #5
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But of course!
And thanks for the quick replies.


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Old 01-09-2010, 06:40 PM   #6
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When I responded above, I assumed I could find a "run at startup in system tray" option in the Calibre configuration options.
Is that because I'm not seeing it? Or because it's not there and I need to go and figure out how to do that in XP.


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Old 01-09-2010, 06:58 PM   #7
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It's a command line option.
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And the command line options for calibre.exe are documented where?
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:24 PM   #9
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And the command line options for calibre.exe are documented where?
In the documentation. Or just run it with the --help command.

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Old 01-09-2010, 08:43 PM   #10
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--help?

I have been looking for the documentation for the command line options of calibre.exe as well, and I could not find anything in the User Guide.

When I try to run "calibre --help" or "calibre -h", I don't get any output from the command line (on Windows/Vista/32bit). Not sure what is going on, but can't seem to get anything on calibre.exe.

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Do you get invalid command or file name? If so, calibre isn't in your path.

Here is what I get:

~$ calibre --help
Usage: calibre [opts] [path_to_ebook]

Launch the main calibre Graphical User Interface and optionally add the ebook at
path_to_ebook to the database.


Whenever you pass arguments to calibre that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

Options:
--version show program's version number and exit

-h, --help show this help message and exit

--redirect-console-output
Redirect console output to a dialog window (both
stdout and stderr). Useful on windows where GUI apps
do not have a output streams.

--with-library=WITH_LIBRARY
Use the library located at the specified path.

--start-in-tray Start minimized to system tray.

-v, --verbose Log debugging information to console

--no-update-check Do not check for updates


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I have been looking for the documentation for the command line options of calibre.exe as well, and I could not find anything in the User Guide.

When I try to run "calibre --help" or "calibre -h", I don't get any output from the command line (on Windows/Vista/32bit). Not sure what is going on, but can't seem to get anything on calibre.exe.

Any thoughts?


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Does not work on XP pro SP3 either, even in the calibre2 dir. any othe arguments and Calibre just launches the GUI.
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Probably a windows specific bug. Open a ticket and I'll look into it.
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That explains why I wasn't seeing anything when I tried -h/--help - I'm using XP as well.
Thanks for posting the output, pilotbob.


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Probably a windows specific bug. Open a ticket and I'll look into it.
Ticket 4511 has been opened.


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