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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@DMcCunney - you can run calibre server from the GUI.
Go to Preferences->Sharing over the 'net. Click the Start server button, wait for the Stop server and Test server buttons to activate (few seconds), click Test server
Your default web browser will show the web interface to the calibre server, the URL bar will contain the IP Address of your desktop and the default port number e.g. 127.0.0.5:8080.
Don't forget to Stop the server
That should adequate for your Calibre Companion investigation.
BR
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Already done, but there are a few other pieces to the puzzle. I also tested the tablet could connect to the Calibre server instance, and downloaded and opened a test volume in my eBook viewer (FBReader for Android).
I still have the issue of
many books on the tablet deposited by USB that CC doesn't see because they didn't come in via Wifi, and I'm reluctant to redo my setup from scratch to accommodate CC. (If I am missing something, and can get CC to read and use the existing metadata Calibre creates on the tablet when I do USB transfers, I'll be delighted to be wrong.)
For my current issues, the simplest solution is just to boot to Ubuntu and use the Calibre instance installed there to to maintain the tablet library via USB. Ubuntu doesn't have the issues Win10 has demonstrated.
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Dennis