Thread: Calibre or Calibre Companion problem...?
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Old 01-03-2014, 01:40 PM   #4
chaley
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Originally Posted by NSILMike View Post
Calibre version: 1.17, 64-bit on Windows 7
Calibre Companion version: 3.2.6
Device: Nexus 7
Android version: KitKat 4.4.2

All worked fine (I use calibre companion daily) thru yesterday. Nothing that I know of changed or updated, but now companion cannot connect to caliber wirelessly at all. I've double checked the IP address and port. It does connect to the content server, so I tried that and sent files (daily news downloads) to main memory as has worked flawlessly before. Companion cannot see those files at all. I can see and open them manually with FB reader as before. Files are loaded in the normal folder, as before. I am stumped... Any suggestions you can make are welcome. I have rebooted the tablet.
To be sure I understand what is happening:

1) You can start CC. You see books. You can sort, group, etc.
2) You have a running instance of calibre running both the content server and the wireless device driver.
3) CC connecting as a wireless device fails. How does it fail?
4) CC connecting to the content server works.
5) CC can download books from the content server. The check mark appears next to the downloaded when you do this. However after disconnecting the books are not shown in CC even though the files are visible in CC's folder.

Assuming that all the above are true, then the only explanation I can come up with consistent with the symptoms is that CC's database has been made read-only. How this would happen is beyond me; it is certainly not something that CC would do. Also, how this would prevent CC from connecting is a mystery. It would cause problems with downloading metadata, but not the initial connection.

The best way I can see to get any handle at all on what is going is to see the debug logs. Please get a calibre debug log as described in the FAQ answer https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...37#post2396437 and email it to me at cc-probs at charles dot haleys dot org (making the obvious substitutions). At the same time send me a CC debug log by going to CC's settings, scrolling to the bottom, selecting "Email a debug log to MultiPie", and entering the above email address as the destination.

EDIT: CC has never been able to see books transferred to a device over a cable. Are you saying that you can connect CC as a wireless device, send books, and then not be able to see them in CC after disconnecting?
Last edited by chaley; 01-03-2014 at 01:43 PM.
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