Home assistant add-on: calibre

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About

Calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.

This addon is based on the docker image https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.

1. Add my add-ons repository to your home assistant instance (in supervisor addons store at top right, or click button below if you have configured my HA)
2. Install this add-on.
3. Click the Save button to store your configuration.
4. Set the add-on options to your preferences
5. Start the add-on.
6. Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.
7. Open the webUI and adapt the software options

Configuration

Webui can be found at http://homeassistant:PORT. Configurations can be done through the app webUI, except for the following options. Please read the upstream container documentation for further info : https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre/blob/35b5e3ae06ba95f666687150ca5fd632b8db9e87/README.md#application-setup

In particular, the webserver and wireless connection needs to be manually enabled from the desktop app to be able to access it, using ports 8081 and 9090 respectively.

PGID: user
GPID: user
TZ: timezone
PASSWORD: Optionally set a password for the gui
CLI_ARGS: Optionally pass cli start arguments to calibre
localdisks: sda1 #put the hardware name of your drive to mount separated by commas, or its label. ex. sda1, sdb1, MYNAS...
networkdisks: "//SERVER/SHARE" # optional, list of smb servers to mount, separated by commas
cifsusername: "username" # optional, smb username, same for all smb shares
cifspassword: "password" # optional, smb password

Support

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