[Device Plugin] iOS reader applications

[akita]

Originally Posted by ShellShock

These are all symptoms of the plugin either not detecting any idevices, or detecting more than one idevice. There could be several reasons for this. If you are trying to use Calibre 1.48 with IOS 8 then this is very likely to be the problem - as I explained before, old versions of Calibre do not support IOS 8.

sigh. I just had my hopes up since the newest update of iOSRA actually loaded instead of giving me errors. bummer...

[metzeng]

I've been struggling to get Calibre to recognize my ipad air 2. I've read the forum and believe I've done everything right. This is the debug log:

libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited
calibre Debug log
calibre 2.20 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '14.1.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64')
Python 2.7.9
OSX: ('10.10.2', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: iOS reader applications && Marvin XD
Starting up...
Started up in 18.79 seconds with 23 books
SMART_DEV ( 0.00: 0.001) _attach_to_port try ip address "" on port 9090
SMART_DEV ( 1.03: 0.853) startup_on_demand listening on port 9090
SMART_DEV ( 1.07: 0.000) _attach_to_port try ip address "" on port 54982
SMART_DEV ( 1.13: 0.000) startup_on_demand broadcast socket listening on port 54982
SMART_DEV ( 2.19: 1.019) run All IP addresses {'en1': [{'addr': '10.114.0.90', 'netmask': '255.255.252.0', 'broadcast': '10.114.3.255'}], 'lo0': [{'addr': '127.0.0.1', 'netmask': '255.0.0.0', 'peer': '127.0.0.1'}]}

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

[Mr. Goodbar]

Is anyone having connection issues after updating to the latest version of iOS and Calibre. It is no longer seeing the iPad Retina Mini when I connect with Marvin

[Rezn8r]

Originally Posted by Mr. Goodbar

Is anyone having connection issues after updating to the latest version of iOS and Calibre. It is no longer seeing the iPad Retina Mini when I connect with Marvin

Same here. All was well until I installed iOS 8.3 on both iPad Air and iPhone 5c. Now, when I first connect a device with Calibre open I get the following error message: Unable to connect to iDevice


The detailed message reads:

calibre, version 2.24.0
iOS reader applications: Unable to connect to iDevice

Looks like it's back to Dropbox for awhile. Darn it.

[Mr. Goodbar]

Originally Posted by Rezn8r

Same here. All was well until I installed iOS 8.3 on both iPad Air and iPhone 5c. Now, when I first connect a device with Calibre open I get the following error message: Unable to connect to iDevice


The detailed message reads:

calibre, version 2.24.0
iOS reader applications: Unable to connect to iDevice

Looks like it's back to Dropbox for awhile. Darn it.

Yep, exact same thing for me. I'm also getting lots of Calibre crashes with the last two releases. I'm going to try to take a look and see if the device id's somehow changed with the new releases.

[ShellShock]

Check out this: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/04...-from-ios-8-3/. Instructions for downgrading to 8.2; get in quick whilst the downgrade is still possible. I have not tried this, as I am still on 8.2, and won't upgrade now I have seen the problems you are having.

This looks like a problem with IOS 8.3. IOS 8.2 with the latest Calibre (2.24 Win 64 bit) and IOSRA (1.4.7.0.0) works OK.

[Rezn8r]

ShellShock, in the Marvin HD thread, you seemed to think that iOSRA might not be updated to work with 8.3. Is this definitely the case? I really have too many reasons to stick with 8.3 to downgrade, but I sure would hate to lose iDevice-Calibre communication. Is the plug-in developer no longer working on this?

Thanks.

[ShellShock]

I reiterate what I said elsewhere: when IOS 8 came out, we had similar problems. It was broken for several months, then I decided to have a crack at fixing it, and got it working again, after a lot of work. This time I do not want to upgrade to 8.3 and lose my Marvin connection, and then have to spend possibly a lot of time fixing it again. Until someone else steps forward who is willing and able to fix this, my advice is to stay on 8.2.

[ChaosForged]

I'll give it a shot, but can't promise anything since I haven't mucked with the code before.

ShellShock,

Can you offer any guidance / instructions for the build process? Or lessons learned from your work getting iOS 8 working?

[ShellShock]

@ChaosForged, please see the instructions at https://github.com/Polyfun/libimobil...biledevice.txt.

You will need Visual Studio 2008.

The usbmuxd_get_device_list function in libusbmuxd\src\libusbmuxd.c would be a good starting point for debugging. Please see the Polyfun comment for a change that I added a while ago, possibly this has caused problems with IOS 8.3.

Good luck!

[Rezn8r]

Sorry ShellShock, it has been awhile since I checked out this thread and I had forgotten that you were the guy that got IOSRA up and working again. I can certainly understand why you wouldn't want to have to do all that again. Thank you for your hard work. I'm reconsidering my thinking about sticking with iOS 8.3 and may indeed do the downgrade. It's truly a pain not to have that link between Marvin and Calibre.

ChaosForged, I wish you luck if you decide to take this project on. I am sure there are a great many of us who will be cheering you on.

[Rezn8r]

My attempt to downgrade failed. Don't know if it's too late or something else went wrong, but I'm back at iOS 8.3 after 3 or 4 hours of recovery. Really pulling for you, ChaosForged.

[ShellShock]

According to this https://ipsw.me/8.2 Apple are still signing 8.2, so in theory it should still be possible to downgrade. Not sure for how much longer though...

[ShellShock]

Attached are a rebuild of the libimobiledevice in which I have backed out a change I did which might be causing connection problems with IOS 8.3. Worth a shot. I have not tested this at all.

This build is only for Windows!!!
Shutdown Calibre.
Unzip either the Win32 or x64 files in the attached zip.
Backup the corresponding files in your Calibre\DLLs directory.
Copy the new files into the Calibre\DLLs directory.
If it doesn't work, simply restore the backed up files.

Fingers crossed.

[ShellShock]

Based on this https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=74, I very much doubt that the new dllls in the previous post will make any difference. It is probable that we need extensive changes to the libimobiledevice library, which I personally would not attempt, even if I had the time. It may be (pure speculation here) that Apple are deliberately trying to close down idevices to prevent the type of connectivity that IOSRA uses.

Our best hope may be that the libimobiledevice authors at http://www.libimobiledevice.org fix it to work with 8.3, then we could port the new version to Windows (as I did before to get IOS 8.0 support).