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Originally Posted by chaley
...the real questions are "why not run calibre itself?", or why not connect directly to calibre's content server?
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Sure, this is what i probably need to do, but i'm not sure i was able to convey the idea of what i'm looking for in the first post so that it could be understood the right way
Imagine you are sitting with a friend of yours on a couch in front of a big LED-TV connected by HDMI/LAN to your PC with calibre installed on it, Calibre Companion installed on your android phone at your hands connected to yout PC by WiFi.
You'd like to show him - in a comfortable way, on the big screen of your TV - your calibre library without moving from the couch (...in a similar way as presenting your picture collection from the PC to the TV: possible for example by HDMI with the media-manager "XBMC/KODI" on the PC controlled by the app "Yatse" on you phone.)
Which would be the best option?
I.
Internet browser on the TV connected to the calibre content server on the PC: but controlling the TV-browser is a pretty cumbersome job and you neither can control the user interface of that presentation nor which categories are shown and which not.
II.
Internet browser on the PC connected to the calibre content server, browser window dragged to the TV as a part of windows "extended desktop" and controlled by the android device with the app "unified remote": a viable way, but again: neither control of the user interface nor which categories are shown and which not.
III.
Companion:Could CC help me in that project?
By "Connect to content Server" CC controls the calibre content (categories) and the apearance of it on the android device.
You could
cast the screen of your android device to the TV in some way but this requiers advanced features on the side of your device and TV and makes things difficult.
Mirror the CC screen on your android device to the PC and drag the window to the TV (connected by HDMI) as a part of the windows "extended desktop": not an optimal and not a very agile way of presenting.
Are there maybe other options of how could i - sitting on my couch with an android device - control what calibre is showing on the PC and presenting it on my TV?