Updating GUI and OPDS after cli adding books

[Nitrousoxide]

Does anyone know how to get Calibre to update the opds and gui databases when you add a book via the command line?
Basically, I have another app generating epubs and dropping them in a directory. I then run a cron job to calibredb add the files in that directory. This works fine and they appear in the DB. But the GUI and OPDS server don't pick them up until I manually have it check through the GUI
I tried running calibredb check_library but that doesn't seem to cause the GUI or OPDS to pick up the database change.

These are the relevant parts of the bash script that I'm running

calibredb add -acIilsStt directory/path/to/books/for/input
calibredb check_library

[kovidgoyal]

When running a calibre server, connect to it using calibredb. See the docs of calibredb for how to do that. Then it will update the GUI and OPDS automatically.

[Nitrousoxide]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

When running a calibre server, connect to it using calibredb. See the docs of calibredb for how to do that. Then it will update the GUI and OPDS automatically.

I got this working with this command, for anyone in the future who might see this.

calibredb add -acIilsStt --username (username) --password (password, likely need to surround with quotes due to odd characters) --library-path 'http://192.168.1.1:8080(replace with actual IP and port)/#(name of DB, look up at the top of the calibre gui window to see what it is, it also needs the preceeding "#" that i left in here, entire IP address + DB name was surrounded with quotes like here due to # sign breaking things in a bash script otherwise)' directory/path/to/books/for/input

Without all the notes:
calibredb add -acIilsStt --username user_name --password 'pass_word' --library-path 'http://192.168.7.233:6838/#DB' directory/path/to/books/for/input

You could probably use the local host ip for that, it wasn't working for me for some reason so I used the network IP of the server.