Content server troubleshooting

[Amauril]

I like the built in content server. It has a nice, simple interface. Usually I use it with my laptop, which means I have a full featured browser. Everything works this way. On my phone, this also works in the standard Android browser. But Laputa, the ebook reading application I use, can also use an OPDS catalogue, and it'd be neat to make the book browsing process shorter, or more homogenous, or ... something It connects, the logfile says so, and I get the "by author" "by tag" etc page. But when I choose any option I get ... nothing. It says no books available. On my laptop, the /opds link is populated properly. There is no username or password to the content server, though I did change the port. Can anyone suggest a course of action?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Amauril

I like the built in content server. It has a nice, simple interface.

There are three interfaces. /browse, /opds and /mobile.

Usually I use it with my laptop, which means I have a full featured browser. Everything works this way. On my phone, this also works in the standard Android browser. But Laputa, the ebook reading application I use, can also use an OPDS catalogue, and it'd be neat to make the book browsing process shorter, or more homogenous, or ... something It connects, the logfile says so, and I get the "by author" "by tag" etc page. But when I choose any option I get ... nothing. It says no books available. On my laptop, the /opds link is populated properly. There is no username or password to the content server, though I did change the port. Can anyone suggest a course of action?

Sorry, I haven't tried Laputa recently. You may try specifying /browse, /mobile or /opds when you define the server and see what you get.

Here's what I've tried:

Aldiko works well with the content server. I find that by default it will access the /mobile page. That page allows searching but isn't quite as fancy as /browse. You can force Aldiko to use the fancier /browse page. (Which page you get depends on the browser you select and its settings.) The newer v.2 version handles authentication better than v.1, but still won't handle the Calibre authentication. That's an Android problem. I use a reverse proxy to get remote access and use no password on Calibre for internal access.

Moon+ Reader works OK, but accesses the /opds page, which is more like an RSS page and doesn't allow searching. You need good tags, authors, searches, etc. to find books. I can't seem to get it to access anything other than /opds.

As you know, Android browsers can access the /browse page, which is most full featured, although it depends on the browser you use and the user_agent string you have told it to send. You can force the browser to access any of the three formats.

[Amauril]

I have tried specifying each of those pages, and also /stanza. None of them work except in the web browser. I've tried Laputa and Moon+, but I haven't tried Aldiko yet. I have pretty good tags, although I haven't gone through all of them quite yet to make sure they're set appropriately. There should be a sufficiently tagged library to see, though.

I'll give Aldiko a shot and report back.

-a while later-

Aldiko works fine. I don't suppose you know where it downloads files to?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Amauril

Aldiko works fine. I don't suppose you know where it downloads files to?

/sdcard/eBooks