I have an extensive E-Book library sat on my cloud at the moment just as a backup. What I’d like to do is somehow allow my partner to access this using her Android tablet and get her own books, maybe using Calibre Companion or similar.
Since COPS can be installed to Synology (DSM 5 or DSM 6) one could follow the unofficial methods of installing clean Debian/DSM to their My Cloud and then installing COPS per that GitHub site’s directions. Note that the following discussions are not supported by WD and performing the actions discussed may void your My Cloud warranty and potentially brick (render unusable) your My Cloud. See the following Search link for discussions on DSM.
Hi all, I made a app to easy install cops some time ago, but I didn’t made it public because: “nobody will use this…”. Anyway… put your calibre library (the folder with the metadata.db) in the Public share and name it “calibre”, then install cops app: cops for wdmycloud 1.0.1
Officially the single bay/single drive My Cloud does not support adding third party modules. As such any method to add any unofficial app has the potential, how ever remote, to “ruin” the My Cloud. Fortunately there are a number of unbricking methods to recover a bricked My Cloud.
You may want to keep your My Cloud as standard as possible but you are asking for or are seeking an unofficial modification or an unofficial feature, that to accomplish what you seek will require you to change your My Cloud, at the very least using SSH, so its no longer standard.
make sure /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/yourname/metadata.db exsist
wait, at first it would warn File /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/calibre/metadata.db not found, Please check something like that. But wait for the modification taking effects, every thing will work well!
I think you can assign another path in this way either.
But here’s a little problem : I want to change the default calibre directory to Books , so I edit config_local.php file:
The calibre Content server exposes your calibre libraries over the internet. You can specify the path to the library folders as arguments to calibre-server .