Trouble with books staying connected and metadata - Page 3

tamhas · 03-30-2015, 03:29 PM

I'm not clear how the wireless link is going to happen. Theresa's computer used to be connected to our network wireless, but we have switched to wired. But, which device is advertising the connection? Or, is this Bluetooth?

chaley · 03-30-2015, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tamhas

I'm not clear how the wireless link is going to happen. Theresa's computer used to be connected to our network wireless, but we have switched to wired. But, which device is advertising the connection? Or, is this Bluetooth?

If you don't have WiFi then you can't use CC. Of course you won't be able to use the vast majority of smartphones (are there any that support wired connections?), but that might be OK with you.

To be precise, the computer running calibre must be visible on a WiFi network. There is no requirement that it be connected by WiFi. Mine certainly isn't.

The best way to determine if CC will help you is to try it rather than continue to speculate about it. If you don't have a recent Android device then ask a friend with such a device to install CC (Free) and then try that device with your library on your network. If it can connect to a calibre instance on your network then good. If it can't then you can explore other alternatives.

FYI: the thread Calibre Companion Android App: Information, Change Log, and FAQ has a lot of information about what CC does, how it works, how it connects, and how to troubleshoot connection problems.

tamhas · 03-30-2015, 04:07 PM

Ah, I think. Yes, we regularly connect with wireless devices and do things like transfer files from one computer or another, so if that is the kind of connection one needs, we can do it. iPhones seem to predominate in the area, unfortunately, so the borrowing may not be that easy. We'll see. I'll check out the link. Thanks.

tamhas · 03-30-2015, 04:20 PM

Question. One of the things which led to the selection of the current Lenovo was having a reasonable keyboard from which to interact with Calibre. This seems to work less well than imagined because touching the screen to scroll tends to select something in Calibre and the absence of a mouse with scroll wheel, etc. makes pointing and scrolling less easy. CC sounds like one would do a minimum of update, so the keyboard would be less important. Is the interface one which is easy to traverse with touch screen? She went with a 10" device to have more screen area for Calibre and the keyboard, but an 8" device would probably be nicer for reading ... as long as CC could still be easily used at that size with several hundred books.

Terisa de morgan · 03-30-2015, 04:22 PM

I use calibre companion in a smartphone (5") and a tablet (7"), and I don't have any problem to use it. I use the group characteristic a lot, and it's quite easy. I don't have a lot of books (around 400 hundred), but there's no problem at all.

theducks · 03-30-2015, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by tamhas

Ah, OK, I was understanding that CC was related to the mentions of calibre-server. So, is it rather that one "publishes" the Calibre library to the device and then one has CC and the library in the device off line?

Didn't you mention that you could update a couple of things like whether a book was read? Is there then a process to update that back in the library on the PC?

Is the Calibre side of this publish and update a part of standard Calibre or are there Calibre plugins for the purpose? What does one do physically to do the updates ... connect via USB so the Calibre sees it as a device?

In my current library, I have both the Kindle and EPub versions of all the books. We are trying to figure how to best sync her library and mine. If she has both, is it going to be easy to push only the ePub to the Android device?

CC has 2 online modes:

Device connection: Behaves like a cable in that you control from Calibre (on device column appears). You can add/delete/send again (update).
This mode allows CC Read status to be returned and update the DB (No other device can do this)

Content server Mode: You browse Calibre and choose which books to pull. The main difference from usin a simple browser is that the book and metadata is integrated with CC's off-line mode.

CC has 1 off-line mode:
This accesses the books and metadata CC retrieved while online without an active connection. This also allows you to mark books read (will transfer back to Calibre the next time CC connects in DEVICE (w/metadata sync mode)

tamhas · 04-05-2015, 12:43 PM

Just to update, the Lenovo Windows tablet has been replaced by a Samsung 8" Android tablet and we have successfully connected wirelessly and downloaded an initial set of books into CC. Looks like a winner, though undoubtedly some questions remain! Thanks for your help!

chaley · 04-05-2015, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by tamhas

Just to update, the Lenovo Windows tablet has been replaced by a Samsung 8" Android tablet and we have successfully connected wirelessly and downloaded an initial set of books into CC. Looks like a winner, though undoubtedly some questions remain! Thanks for your help!

Good.

Further questions should be posed in the CC forum, which clearly TdeV figured out as she has already posted one there.

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03-30-2015, 03:29 PM	#31
tamhas Zealot Posts: 113 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle	I'm not clear how the wireless link is going to happen. Theresa's computer used to be connected to our network wireless, but we have switched to wired. But, which device is advertising the connection? Or, is this Bluetooth?

03-30-2015, 04:07 PM	#33
tamhas Zealot Posts: 113 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle	Ah, I think. Yes, we regularly connect with wireless devices and do things like transfer files from one computer or another, so if that is the kind of connection one needs, we can do it. iPhones seem to predominate in the area, unfortunately, so the borrowing may not be that easy. We'll see. I'll check out the link. Thanks.

03-30-2015, 04:20 PM	#34
tamhas Zealot Posts: 113 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle	Question. One of the things which led to the selection of the current Lenovo was having a reasonable keyboard from which to interact with Calibre. This seems to work less well than imagined because touching the screen to scroll tends to select something in Calibre and the absence of a mouse with scroll wheel, etc. makes pointing and scrolling less easy. CC sounds like one would do a minimum of update, so the keyboard would be less important. Is the interface one which is easy to traverse with touch screen? She went with a 10" device to have more screen area for Calibre and the keyboard, but an 8" device would probably be nicer for reading ... as long as CC could still be easily used at that size with several hundred books.

03-30-2015, 04:22 PM	#35
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,279 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	I use calibre companion in a smartphone (5") and a tablet (7"), and I don't have any problem to use it. I use the group characteristic a lot, and it's quite easy. I don't have a lot of books (around 400 hundred), but there's no problem at all.

04-05-2015, 12:43 PM	#37
tamhas Zealot Posts: 113 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle	Just to update, the Lenovo Windows tablet has been replaced by a Samsung 8" Android tablet and we have successfully connected wirelessly and downloaded an initial set of books into CC. Looks like a winner, though undoubtedly some questions remain! Thanks for your help!

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