Calibre not detecting my new WiFi Kobo

[timlegge]

Originally Posted by MeganJoan

I plugged in my non-wifi Kobo the other day to buy and add a new book and Calibre didn't recognise it. Windows picks it up fine, but Calibre does not. So, it may be a problem with the newest version of Calibre and Kobo's in general, rather than the wifi Kobo.

I'm buying books from the Kobo store at the moment, so I've just added them with the Kobo app and haven't really bothered trying to fix it yet, so I have no idea how many others have had the same problem.

@MeganJoan

Can you also post your device debug information from Calibre so Kovid can review it?

Tim

[Joyful]

Oops looks like on my first try I posted the disconnected one twice. Sorry, kovid! (I blame it on the late hour )

I was very grateful for the Connect/Share button. Once I understood that I could use it to add content, my stress level went down considerably.
Great news about support in the next release. I'm lost without Calibre!

Joyful

[timlegge]

Kovid has released the new version so the wifi version should be recognized now.

[Beethoven]

Yup. looks great. Can access main memory as well as the card slot on the Kobo Wireless.

Fantastic responsiveness on this issue. ...as well as all of the other fixes/enhancements listed!

Thank-you!

[Joyful]

Wow, Kovid, that was fast!


Joyful

[kovidgoyal]

You're most welcome

[DarkkMan]

Originally Posted by timlegge

Kovid has released the new version so the wifi version should be recognized now.

I have a Kobo Wifi (and an original Kobo) and when I try the new version of Calibre it pops up the device icon. When I select it and choose view books on the device it tries to connect but then gives this error:

ERROR: Error communicating with device

Database disk image is malformed

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 69, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 311, in _books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 167, in books
DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

and

ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'list' object has no attribute 'add_book'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 298, in dispatch
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 1370, in books_uploaded
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 387, in add_books_to_metadata
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 344, in add_books_to_metadata
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'add_book'


I am cannot see where to get the USB debugging info with my version of Calibre. I believe I have 0.7.26 which I downloaded last weekend.

[DarkkMan]

I founf the debugging option under preferences and have added the info with Kobo attached and detached to the usb port.

Attached:
Version: 0.7.26
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c9&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27cb&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c8&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27ca&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid27cc&rev0001',
u'usb\\vid_0461&pid_4d75&rev_0667',
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_129e&rev_0001',
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_129e&rev_0001&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_05e3&pid_0608&rev_0702',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_4500&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_4502&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_4503&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0b97&pid_7761&rev_0110',
u'usb\\vid_0b97&pid_7762&rev_0110',
u'usb\\vid_2237&pid_4161&rev_0110',
u'usb\\vid_413c&pid_a005&rev_5018']
Drives detected:
(0) F:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_KOBO&PROD_ EREADER&REV_0110#KBN647095B42473&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
Available plugins: ALEX ANDROID AVANT AZBOOKA BLACKBERRY BOOQ BOOX COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK
E52 E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE ELONEX ESLICK
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KOBO KOGAN MENTOR MIBUK N516
N770 N810 NEWSMY NOOK NUUT2 PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO
POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 PRS505 Q600 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS
SPECTRA SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK VELOCITYMICRO

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_2237&pid_4161&rev_0110'
Detected possible device KOBO

Devices possibly connected: Kobo Reader Device Interface,
Trying to open Kobo Reader Device Interface ... OK
Main memory: 'F:\\'
Total space: (1164390400, 0, 0)



Detached:
Version: 0.7.26
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c9&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27cb&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c8&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27ca&rev0001',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid27cc&rev0001',
u'usb\\vid_0461&pid_4d75&rev_0667',
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_129e&rev_0001',
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_129e&rev_0001&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_05e3&pid_0608&rev_0702',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_4500&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_4502&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_4503&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0b97&pid_7761&rev_0110',
u'usb\\vid_0b97&pid_7762&rev_0110',
u'usb\\vid_413c&pid_a005&rev_5018']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\scanner.py", line 69, in __call__
DriveError: No removable drives found
Drives detected:
Available plugins: ALEX ANDROID AVANT AZBOOKA BLACKBERRY BOOQ BOOX COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK
E52 E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE ELONEX ESLICK
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KOBO KOGAN MENTOR MIBUK N516
N770 N810 NEWSMY NOOK NUUT2 PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO
POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 PRS505 Q600 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS
SPECTRA SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK VELOCITYMICRO

Looking for devices...

Devices possibly connected: None

[timlegge]

Originally Posted by DarkkMan

I have a Kobo Wifi (and an original Kobo) and when I try the new version of Calibre it pops up the device icon. When I select it and choose view books on the device it tries to connect but then gives this error:

ERROR: Error communicating with device

Database disk image is malformed

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 69, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 311, in _books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 167, in books
DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

and

ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'list' object has no attribute 'add_book'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 298, in dispatch
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 1370, in books_uploaded
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 387, in add_books_to_metadata
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 344, in add_books_to_metadata
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'add_book'


I am cannot see where to get the USB debugging info with my version of Calibre. I believe I have 0.7.26 which I downloaded last weekend.

Wifi kobo or the original? If it the original you probably need to reset your database by following the sticky in the kobo forum.

For the wifi you probably need to use the factory reset on the device to recreate the database.

I will try to test it tonight but the last time I tried it worked fine. Please make sure you safetly remove the device and don't just unplug it...

[DarkkMan]

Thanks Timlegge. I actually did a reset on my Kobo Wifi and it is being recognized now. PDFs are recognized and appear under Documents on the device now when they didn't before. Now to just get magazine subscriptions to appear and I'll be happy. :-)

Thanks for the help and the most useful e-reader product on the Net to-date!

[cybmole]

ok - it's an old thread but I have same problem today connecting a new Kobo for 1st time.
it is a KObo wifi model direct from WH Smiths.
calibre can't see it, windows can, i can manually brose to kobo on the send to disk option so why no recognition ?

[itimpi]

It would help if you posted here the device detection log so that we we can see what is happening. Have you followed the steps outlined in the User manual (http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...etected-by-app) - the last of which is the one to get the log?