Koreader on all devices synching highlights, position, etc..

[nuovodna]

Hi, I've been trying for months to find a solution to make Koreader work between all my devices (iPhone, Windows PC, Linux PC, Kobo Clara BW) but I can't find it.

I have a Raspberry Pi 5 on which I installed syncthing (also on Kobo) for file synchronization.

On the RPI5 I tried these ways:
-) "docker-koreader". I exposed the service on the web and someone entered my server running a script in the container to generate cryptocurrencies.
-) "koreader-novnc" but I can't get it to work

Is there any other way to read also from devices that don't have koreader (iPhone, windows) and sync all the metadata?

I'm currently using "calibre-server" to read on devices without koreader but clearly there is no bilateral synchronization of highlights and progress.

Should I give up or is there a solution?

Thanks a lot!

[jospalau]

You can set up a Rsync service to sync information from Devices. I have one in my desktop and one in my phone with Termux.

Then you can make scripts to sync from (pulling)/to(pushing) the server. You can run these scripts from NickelMenu or from KOReader (you can run scripts from the file manager).

This way I how sync everything (sidecars, profiles, collections...) and even books. The only thing is I can't use the devices simultaneously. Before pulling the information from a device you have to push with the last device you used.

You can start small with a simple script to sync sidecars.



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[hius07]

Good automation!
In the next release will appear a new feature
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/12564
Fire actions on events.
If you need more triggering events, or more actions, let me know.

[mergen3107]

I had an unfortunate data wipe recently when updated from 5.16.2 to 5.16.9 by hand on my Kindle Scribe. I didn’t do a full backup, so that was a good lesson for me

I should definitely do something like this, so thank you for starting this topic!

Do you guys know if rsync can handle and sync also detecting duplicates?

For example, I have books in /mnt/us/books/

Once I read a book, I move to the archive folder under /mnt/us/books/ARCHIVE/

What I would like to do this:
1) Sync 1: book1.epub and its sdr folder are in /mnt/us/books/
2) Read the book and put into archive at /mnt/us/books/ARCHIVE
3) Sync 2: rsync synced the book and added it to ARCHIVE. But I also would like it to delete backup from /mnt/us/books/

I now this is a trivial script and I should probably write it by hand, but maybe there are some advanced tools that can take care of this?

[GreyFox]

Originally Posted by hius07

Good automation!
In the next release will appear a new feature
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/12564
Fire actions on events.
If you need more triggering events, or more actions, let me know.

I need to read more about what this does, but could something be set that whenever the device is locked it uploads the reading stats to dropbox?

[hius07]

Originally Posted by GreyFox

I need to read more about what this does, but could something be set that whenever the device is locked it uploads the reading stats to dropbox?

We cannot do anything while the device is sleeping.

[GreyFox]

Originally Posted by hius07

We cannot do anything while the device is sleeping.

Would it be possible that the sleep button initiates the upload and then puts the device to sleep?

[hius07]

Uploading may take time, and we cannot pause the system responding to the hard button pressing.
Please note that the sleep button is handled by the system itself.

[hius07]

But I see that the KOsync plugin tries to update the progress before going to sleep, so I recommend it.

[mergen3107]

There can a profile that does sync (with pause in that script until it is done) and only then asks for sleep.