[GUI Plugin] Sending (syncing) by SSH/RSH

[janvanmaar]

I have updated the code to report a better error message. It happens when the selected book is not available in the format(s) that you require for syncing (see/change the formats under Customize plugin), so you need to convert first. This is now also printed in the version 1.0.2 rather than the ugly error message you mentioned.

[igorius]

I installed and tried to use the plugin with the following results:

First of it all, i try to sync to a network share on a NAS, i have only password protected shares.
I use this with calibre on a mac.

When i enter my credentials in your plugin, calibre wont start anymore without errors.
Plugin tells that i have too much ":" in my settings.

I entered the path to my share in this way: "userasswd@NAS:/share/folder"

Obviously rsync wont work because of the missing password on the NAS...

My second "problem" is that i would send the whole library to the NAS, including the database and all folders inside my library, not only a sort of files. I want to use that rsync-feature as a backup for the whole library...

[lyleberman]

This is great thanks for this - excellent work!!!

One quick q: I'm able to send books via your plug-in to my Kindle.
But the refresh isn't working. The books show up after I reboot the Kindle though.
On a Kindle PW 3 running 5.8.7.0.1.

Here's my settings:
root@192.168.1.9:/mnt/base-us/documents/ ; rsync ; MOBI,EPUB,TXT ; 1

Thanks again!

[lyleberman]

Originally Posted by lyleberman

This is great thanks for this - excellent work!!!

One quick q: I'm able to send books via your plug-in to my Kindle.
But the refresh isn't working. The books show up after I reboot the Kindle though.
On a Kindle PW 3 running 5.8.7.0.1.

Here's my settings:
root@192.168.1.9:/mnt/base-us/documents/ ; rsync ; MOBI,EPUB,TXT ; 1

Thanks again!

Actually the command on my Kindle to refresh everything is
"lipc-set-prop -- com.lab126.scanner doFullScan 1"

(In the plug-in, it was set to be dbus-send --system /default com.lab126.powerd.resuming int32:1 but I guess that's depreciated now)

Working now!

[janvanmaar]

I am glad you found the plugin useful! I only own the old Kindle Keyboard (still works wonderfully btw), therefore just the older way of refreshing. With the original plugin, did it say 'Error refreshing files on Kindle:' ? If so then the plugin can simply run your command in case of this error (ideally this would be based on the Kindle version but I do not have the time to figure that out)

[brianswilson]

I tried installing the 1.0.2 version on Calibre 5.7.X and received the following error. The error appears to be due to a later version of Python (3?) being use. The fix should be reasonably easy to implement. I may be able to help if you'd like.

calibre, version 5.7.0
ERROR: Install plugin failed: A problem occurred while installing this plugin. This plugin will now be uninstalled. Please post the error message in details below into the forum thread for this plugin and restart calibre.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\dialogs\plugin_updater.py", line 709, in _install_clicked
File "calibre\customize\ui.py", line 472, in add_plugin
File "calibre\customize\ui.py", line 61, in load_plugin
File "calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 293, in load
File "importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 185, in exec_module
File "calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 181, in get_code
File "calibre_plugins.dummy11.__init__", line 85
print 'debug -2'
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('debug -2')?

[capink]

The plugin is outdated and has not been ported to work with python3 based calibre versions (> 5.0)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by brianswilson

I tried installing the 1.0.2 version on Calibre 5.7.X and received the following error. The error appears to be due to a later version of Python (3?) being use. The fix should be reasonably easy to implement. I may be able to help if you'd like.

We'd like

The originator hasn't logged on for nearly 4 years - so if he doesn't respond…

Post the new version as an attachment to a new reply and PM one of the Mods listed at bottom of main calibre forum asking that the attachment be mooved to the first post.

Thanks for your help.

BR

[n0rd1k]

Hi! Made the upgrade to python3, just few changes. Tested and working under linux, ubuntu 20.04 and latest calibre version. If someone can test in other systems... Cheers!