Syncthing for Kobo?

[anarcat]

I ended up writing my own procedure, with shell scripts slightly simpler than the ones provided by tshering:

https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/

Upside: you get the latest version of whatever syncthing is currently shipping without me or tshering having to rebuild a KoboRoot.tgz.

Downside: you need to manually copy scripts around and generally, you need to know your way around a bit more.

Bonus: other cool hacks collected from elsewhere in one page.

[johndoe3444]

Originally Posted by anarcat

I ended up writing my own procedure, with shell scripts slightly simpler than the ones provided by tshering:

https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/

Upside: you get the latest version of whatever syncthing is currently shipping without me or tshering having to rebuild a KoboRoot.tgz.

Downside: you need to manually copy scripts around and generally, you need to know your way around a bit more.

Bonus: other cool hacks collected from elsewhere in one page.

Hey, thanks for the guide, I followed it and it still works, now I have my library folder synced wirelessly between my computer, phone, tablet and kobo.

The only thing I couldn't do was the seventh step (copy a valid ca-certificates.crt file (say from your Linux desktop) into /etc/ssl/certs/ on the Kobo (otherwise syncthing cannot bootstrap discovery servers)

The /etc/ssl/certs/ directory doesn't exist anymore, I believe it has been moved, and I don't know where I can get the ca-certificates.crt if I don't use Linux.

But the folder syncs and it's so convenient so I guess it's ok :-)

[Szybet]

Oh, so i wasn't the only one noticing that it works

well anyway, i drafted a simple qt gui for syncthing ( only for inkbox for now ) allows to view logs mainly:
https://github.com/Szybet/syncthing-inkbox
https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/user-applications

[anarcat]

Originally Posted by johndoe3444

The only thing I couldn't do was the seventh step (copy a valid ca-certificates.crt file (say from your Linux desktop) into /etc/ssl/certs/ on the Kobo (otherwise syncthing cannot bootstrap discovery servers)

The /etc/ssl/certs/ directory doesn't exist anymore, I believe it has been moved, and I don't know where I can get the ca-certificates.crt if I don't use Linux.

Hmm... well, that's a good question, I guess it depends on your operating system, I don't actually know where the trust root is stored on other systems!

But since it works, YOLO, nothing to fix?

[anarcat]

Originally Posted by Szybet

Oh, so i wasn't the only one noticing that it works

well anyway, i drafted a simple qt gui for syncthing ( only for inkbox for now ) allows to view logs mainly:
https://github.com/Szybet/syncthing-inkbox
https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/user-applications

whoa, nice! a screenshot would look good on there

[Szybet]

a few buttons and logs, nothing fancy for now

[johndoe3444]

Originally Posted by anarcat

Hmm... well, that's a good question, I guess it depends on your operating system, I don't actually know where the trust root is stored on other systems!

But since it works, YOLO, nothing to fix?

It does work and it syncs, although you can see constant errors related to certificates in the log.



Edit: I got the certificate file from here, renamed to .crt and all is good now, no more errors in the log https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html

[anarcat]

Originally Posted by Szybet

a few buttons and logs, nothing fancy for now

You'd be surprised how useful that is...

[Szybet]

Well then, just use it, it's open source

[jagaliano]

This thread seems to be "dead"...

So I am posting the Nickelmenu's entry to activate Syncthing..

# Syncthing and certificates
# General instructions: https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/
# Certificates: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4369411&postcount=37

menu_item :main :Syncthing Status  :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve"
  chain_success :dbg_toast  :Syncthing active on port 8384
  chain_failure :dbg_toast  :Syncthing inactive on port 8384

menu_item :main :Syncthing (toggle) :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve"
  chain_success:skip:5
    chain_failure :cmd_spawn :quiet :exec ifconfig lo | grep -q addr:127.0.0.1 || ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
    chain_success :cmd_spawn :quiet :exec /mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve &
    chain_success :dbg_toast :Started Syncthing server for KOBOeReader partition on port 8384
    chain_failure :dbg_toast :Error starting Syncthing server on port 8384
    chain_always:skip:-1
  chain_success :cmd_spawn :quiet :/usr/bin/pkill -f "/mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve"
  chain_always :dbg_toast :Stopped Syncthing server on port 8384

Hopefully someone find it useful...

[inbusiness]

Originally Posted by jagaliano

This thread seems to be "dead"...

So I am posting the Nickelmenu's entry to activate Syncthing..

# Syncthing and certificates
# General instructions: https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/
# Certificates: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4369411&postcount=37

menu_item :main :Syncthing Status  :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve"
  chain_success :dbg_toast  :Syncthing active on port 8384
  chain_failure :dbg_toast  :Syncthing inactive on port 8384

menu_item :main :Syncthing (toggle) :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve"
  chain_success:skip:5
    chain_failure :cmd_spawn :quiet :exec ifconfig lo | grep -q addr:127.0.0.1 || ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
    chain_success :cmd_spawn :quiet :exec /mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve &
    chain_success :dbg_toast :Started Syncthing server for KOBOeReader partition on port 8384
    chain_failure :dbg_toast :Error starting Syncthing server on port 8384
    chain_always:skip:-1
  chain_success :cmd_spawn :quiet :/usr/bin/pkill -f "/mnt/onboard/.adds/syncthing serve"
  chain_always :dbg_toast :Stopped Syncthing server on port 8384

Hopefully someone find it useful...

Thanks, it's useful indeed.

Just wondering: do you get the newly imported books indexed automatically or are you relying on some solution based on NickelDBus or something?