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tychothecat · 01-05-2014, 05:37 PM

Thanks for the response, Chaley.

I've done a tcpdump on my connection in to my server, and you are very much correct - Calibre Sync is talking to the content server to do the navigation within the android app.

I'd not done any googling on running Calibre headless, your mention of xvfb helps a lot, getting me to threads like

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=97841&page=2

It sounds like my use case is fairly niche for the general user population of Calibre, so I'll pursue the xvfb option, as I do very much want to be able to run Calibre headless (I'll be killing the process and firing it up in the GUI if/when I need to do some advanced library management).

As an FYI - the benefit of all of this: I'm running this on a VM on a small home microserver, along with a variety of other headless services. I want to be able to drop and restart this VM without having to worry about logging into a GUI to fire up various apps.

01-05-2014, 05:37 PM	#17
tychothecat Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Device: Coolreader	Thanks for the response, Chaley. I've done a tcpdump on my connection in to my server, and you are very much correct - Calibre Sync is talking to the content server to do the navigation within the android app. I'd not done any googling on running Calibre headless, your mention of xvfb helps a lot, getting me to threads like https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=97841&page=2 It sounds like my use case is fairly niche for the general user population of Calibre, so I'll pursue the xvfb option, as I do very much want to be able to run Calibre headless (I'll be killing the process and firing it up in the GUI if/when I need to do some advanced library management). As an FYI - the benefit of all of this: I'm running this on a VM on a small home microserver, along with a variety of other headless services. I want to be able to drop and restart this VM without having to worry about logging into a GUI to fire up various apps.