Change the path of a device

Eisfreak7 · 03-21-2016, 01:18 PM

Hi,
I'm trying to make managing my kindle with calibre as seemless as possible. For that I'm now mounting my Kindle via sshfs. However, the mounted kindle is not detected by calibre by default. Even when I symlink /mnt/us (from the kindle) to /media/Kindle (where the kindle is normally mounted when plugged in via usb) calibre doesn't detect it.
When I manually select the folder via the "Connect/Share" button, it works, but Calibre apparently doesn't recognize it as the same device it does when accessing over USB.
This is most apparent, because the Kindle Collections plugin isn't configured for this "new" device.

How do I get calibre to recognize the kindle (preferably automatically) as the same device as over usb?

As an additional question: Is it possible to automatically regenerate the Collections with the Kindle Collections plugin after every book pushed to the kindle or possibly when closing calibre? Apparently Kindle Collections has no command-line interface.
I'd also like to be able to run a command after Kindle Collections has run (`ssh kindle /mnt/us/extensions/librariansync/generate_collections.py --update-calibre`, to update the collections on the kindle).
Is that possible?

kovidgoyal · 03-21-2016, 10:44 PM

You cannot. devices are recognized based on USB ids not filesystem contents.

eschwartz · 03-22-2016, 12:28 AM

You could of course create your own device driver subclassing the KINDLE2 driver and make it replace the folder device driver -- it would then act like the Kindle driver etc.

Your additional questions are best asked in the Kindle Collections plugin support thread.

Eisfreak7 · 03-22-2016, 05:35 AM

Thank you, that's unfortunate.
I'll do that.

03-21-2016, 01:18 PM	#1
Eisfreak7 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: Kindle PW 3	Change the path of a device Hi, I'm trying to make managing my kindle with calibre as seemless as possible. For that I'm now mounting my Kindle via sshfs. However, the mounted kindle is not detected by calibre by default. Even when I symlink /mnt/us (from the kindle) to /media/Kindle (where the kindle is normally mounted when plugged in via usb) calibre doesn't detect it. When I manually select the folder via the "Connect/Share" button, it works, but Calibre apparently doesn't recognize it as the same device it does when accessing over USB. This is most apparent, because the Kindle Collections plugin isn't configured for this "new" device. How do I get calibre to recognize the kindle (preferably automatically) as the same device as over usb? As an additional question: Is it possible to automatically regenerate the Collections with the Kindle Collections plugin after every book pushed to the kindle or possibly when closing calibre? Apparently Kindle Collections has no command-line interface. I'd also like to be able to run a command after Kindle Collections has run (`ssh kindle /mnt/us/extensions/librariansync/generate_collections.py --update-calibre`, to update the collections on the kindle). Is that possible?

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03-21-2016, 10:44 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You cannot. devices are recognized based on USB ids not filesystem contents.

03-22-2016, 12:28 AM	#3
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	You could of course create your own device driver subclassing the KINDLE2 driver and make it replace the folder device driver -- it would then act like the Kindle driver etc. Your additional questions are best asked in the Kindle Collections plugin support thread.

03-22-2016, 05:35 AM	#4
Eisfreak7 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: Kindle PW 3	Thank you, that's unfortunate. I'll do that.

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