Kindle not recognised by calibre on ubuntu 20.04

[pvt654]

Hello again,

Thanks Sirtel for the welcome and your earlier response, I have now downloaded the latest version of Calibre, but it's still not working, this is a copy of the diagnostic tool...

calibre 5.12 embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-5.8.0-44-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '5.8.0-44-generic', '#50~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 10 21:07:30 UTC 2021')
Python 3.8.5
Interface language: en_GB
USB devices on system:
[['0x1949', '0xb', '0x216', 'Amazon', 'Fire', '00D2070840940156'],
['0x45e',
'0x745',
'0x656',
'Microsoft',
'Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0',
''],
['0x64e',
'0xe264',
'0x103',
'SuYin',
'HP Truevision HD',
'HF1016-T821-HN03-REV0103']]

No disabled plugins
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
MTP devices connected:
USBDevice(busnum=2, devnum=4, vendor_id=0x1949, product_id=0x000b, bcd=0x0216, manufacturer=Amazon, product=Fire, serial=00D2070840940156)

Trying to open: USBDevice(busnum=2, devnum=4, vendor_id=0x1949, product_id=0x000b, bcd=0x0216, manufacturer=Amazon, product=Fire, serial=00D2070840940156)
Opening device failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/devices/mtp/unix/driver.py", line 216, in open
File "calibre/devices/mtp/base.py", line 25, in synchronizer
File "calibre/devices/mtp/unix/driver.py", line 168, in create_device
libmtp.MTPError: Unable to open MTP device with busnum=2 and devnum=4, tried 1 such devices

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/devices/mtp/unix/driver.py", line 146, in debug_managed_device_detection
File "calibre/devices/mtp/driver.py", line 128, in open
File "calibre/devices/mtp/base.py", line 25, in synchronizer
File "calibre/devices/mtp/unix/driver.py", line 219, in open
calibre.devices.errors.OpenFailed: Failed to open USBDevice(busnum=2, devnum=4, vendor_id=0x1949, product_id=0x000b, bcd=0x0216, manufacturer=Amazon, product=Fire, serial=00D2070840940156): Error: Unable to open MTP device with busnum=2 and devnum=4, tried 1 such devices


Looking for devices of type: SMART_DEVICE_APP
All IP addresses {'lo': [{'addr': '127.0.0.1', 'netmask': '255.0.0.0', 'peer': '127.0.0.1'}], 'wlo1': [{'addr': '192.168.1.247', 'netmask': '255.255.255.0', 'broadcast': '192.168.1.255'}]}
No device is connected

Looking for devices...

Devices possibly connected: None

Thanks, Peter

[kovidgoyal]

On linux only one program can communicate with an MTP device at a time. Prevent the desktop from automounting the device and it will work fine in calibre.

[pvt654]

Ok, thanks for your help, I will keep plugging away!
Best, Peter