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Originally Posted by chilady1
Forgive me for this question, but struggling to find an answer.
I have downloaded Marvin and I absolutely love this app but having a hard time understanding how to integrate with Calibre via OPDS.
When I had Stanza - I was able to view my entire library via the setup and wondering how I can do this with Marvin. I have gone to the Marvin website and perhaps I am missing it but the instructions are not clear to me as to how to do this. In addition, when I had Stanza I was able to see my entire library but I believe Marvin has an API restrictions of only 1000 viewable, is this correct?
Lastly, once I get everything set up properly will I be able to see my Collections as they exist in Calibre? Again, I was able to view books in Stanza via Author, Title or Series but not sure how to do this with Marvin.
Sorry for the 20,000 questions and again, if someone can point me to where I can find instructions that would be great! Thanks All!
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The 1000 files API restriction applies to Dropbox, and it's a Dropbox restriction, not Marvin's.
With Marvin's OPDS browser I can see my entire 6000 books collection. Maybe I can guide you on how to set up access to your Calibre catalog thru Marvin's OPDS browser.
1.- From the library or home pages, click on the "Cloud" icon at bottom right.
2.- From the pop-up menu select "OPDS Catalogs"
3.- At the resulting pop-up, click on the line at the bottom that reads (in blue): "Tap here to add a new catalog"
4.- Now you will get a drop-down menu. This is where you add your Calibre server info.
----Name: Whatever you want to call your sever. I call mine "Home" . This is what will show up in the servers selection list.
----Address: the address of your calibre server. It goes in the form of "HTTP://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1234/opds/". The xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx if the IP address of your server, but it could be an Internet address name instead of an IP address. The ":1234" represent the port of you calibre server. I have mine as the standard port 80 so I don't need that part, but calibre uses port 8080 by default, so you need whatever your calibre server is set to listen to. If you don't know the port then it's probably the default (8080).
----Username/password: if you have set password protection in calibre, enter the username and password here, otherwise leave blank
5- select "SAVE"
At this point you are done!
Now click on "FAVORITES" at the bottom of the page and you will see an entry you just created, (the "Name" above)
You can now browse you calibre server, just like you did in Stanza.
Let me know if I can help further.
Cheers
Art