[GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Looks to be this: https://github.com/pgaskin/kfwproxy

It might work. But I'm not too keen on using it without permission.

One potential problem is that looking at the kfwproxy code is that in the kfwproxy.go file, you will see the following:

{"/api.kobobooks.com/1.0/UpgradeCheck/Device/:device/:affiliate/:version/:serial", &ProxyHandler{

which appears strangely familiar to the code used by davidfor in his KoboUtilities code.

[ownedbycats]

I found that too (after making my earlier post) - is there any indication that kfwproxy has stopped working?

[DNSB]

That is something that Patrick (aka geek1011) would be the best person to ask. It would be hard for someone else to tell until the next firmware release.

Edit: I send a query to Patrick.

[DNSB]

After a bit of back and forth with Patrick, the URL generated by the Kobo Utilities plugin for my Sage seems to work when I plug it into Firefox, Edge or Chrome. Two tests were run:

One using https://api.kobobooks.com/1.0/Upgrad...N7781900008423 which returned:

<UpgradeCheckResult xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/WebAPI.APIModel">
<Data i:nil="true"/>
<ReleaseNoteURL i:nil="true"/>
<UpgradeType>None</UpgradeType>
<UpgradeURL i:nil="true"/>
</UpgradeCheckResult>

A second test modifying the URL to say I was using 4.35.20400 gave the following which returned the link to 4.37.21533.

https://api.kobobooks.com/1.0/Upgrad...N7781900008423

<UpgradeCheckResult xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/WebAPI.APIModel">
<Data i:nil="true"/>
<ReleaseNoteURL>https://api.kobobooks.com/1.0/ReleaseNotes/148</ReleaseNoteURL>
<UpgradeType>UpgradeRequired</UpgradeType>
<UpgradeURL>https://kbdownload1-a.akamaihd.net/firmwares/kobo8/Jun2023/kobo-update-4.37.21533.zip</UpgradeURL>
</UpgradeCheckResult>

I went back to calibre 6.10.0 and 6.15.1 and got the same results. The connection seems to go through Cloudflare which has been unhappy before with various user agent values.

[HKuser]

I get an error whenever I do a check for updates!

calibre, version 6.22.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>HTTPError</b>:HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

calibre 6.22 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.22621')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.22621', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (2, 1, 0) && DeDRM (7, 2, 1) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (2, 1, 0) && EpubMerge (2, 15, 0) && Fantastic Fiction (1, 6, 3) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 8) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (2, 1, 0) && KFX Input (2, 1, 0) && Kobo Utilities (2, 16, 7) && Obok DeDRM (10, 0, 3) && Open With (1, 8, 1) && SmartEject (2, 5, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.koboutilities.action", line 1176, in menu_firmware_update_check
File "calibre_plugins.koboutilities.action", line 1240, in auto_firmware_update_check
File "urllib\request.py", line 216, in urlopen
File "urllib\request.py", line 525, in open
File "urllib\request.py", line 634, in http_response
File "urllib\request.py", line 563, in error
File "urllib\request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
File "urllib\request.py", line 643, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I hope someone will be able to rectify!

[HKuser]

Can anybody help me use the auto saved backups that I have made with Kobo utilities. When I desperately needed to use them I realised I didn't I had no idea how to do so.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by HKuser

Can anybody help me use the auto saved backups that I have made with Kobo utilities. When I desperately needed to use them I realised I didn't I had no idea how to do so.

Explain what you are trying to do.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by HKuser

I get an error whenever I do a check for updates!

calibre, version 6.22.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>HTTPError</b>:HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I hope someone will be able to rectify!

Please read the half dozen messages immediately above your post.

[ownedbycats]

Unfortunately, changing the user agent I might not be able to do. But I'll see if there's any references in the code.

EDIT: Yeah, it looks past my ability.

[Terisa de morgan]

Hello,

Can you check this beta for the firmware update? It's the official version with a minimum change (as suggested by @DNSB). It's about my ability too... but not google

Moderator Notice
Beta removed because it has been released

[gbm]

Works, using Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon calibre 6.22, Kobo Clara HD.

bernie

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Hello,

Can you check this beta for the firmware update? It's the official version with a minimum change (as suggested by @DNSB). It's about my ability too... but not google

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Hello,

Can you check this beta for the firmware update? It's the official version with a minimum change (as suggested by @DNSB). It's about my ability too... but not google

Works for me, Windows 10 Pro. I let it download the newer firmware and that went fine.

From what I see, the only change you made was to set the user agent to "Mozilla". That seems risk free, as one can always turn off update checking. I can release it if/when the assembled multitude want that.

[ownedbycats]

I'd vote release, if only to stop the "why am I getting errors" posts.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by chaley

Works for me, Windows 10 Pro. I let it download the newer firmware and that went fine.

From what I see, the only change you made was to set the user agent to "Mozilla". That seems risk free, as one can always turn off update checking. I can release it if/when the assembled multitude want that.

Yes, I've downloaded the published version as I had found in my google search a person with the same problem (not this plugin but the user agent), and it was a very simple change.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Yes, I've downloaded the published version as I had found in my google search a person with the same problem (not this plugin but the user agent), and it was a very simple change.

Where can we find the user agent in the plugin?