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https://labs.tomasino.org/audiobooks/
+but i haven’t done it as fanatically as i used to in a long time. +for a while, i didn’t have a commute. +and now i do, but i often carpool. +but sometimes i have a solo, quiet commute. +ideal for some audiobooks!
+further complications: +i am unable to download and archive audiobooks from overdrive the same way i used to be able to. +because they barely support their desktop apps anymore, +and instead push really hard for everybody to use their streaming apps.
+but i learned that if i spoof my user-agent
+https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/
+then i can get a ‘Have overdrive for mac/windows?’ link upon checkout +that will enable me to download the odm file. +which i can then use to download the mp3s thanks to this special little script.
+https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal/blob/master/bin/overdrive
+so that’s great! +while i was troubleshooting all of this, +i downloaded a book to my linux laptop, +because the download link is already readily available there, +and then transferred it over to the pi.
+so now i guess i’m going to start collecting and archiving audiobooks on the pi too! +i might look into jellyfin in earnest so i can serve them +and download them over my home network.
+i might also have to start really considering a vpn +so i can access my files away from the house.
+ ]]> + + +whoa this fork looks really great +compared to what i have
+https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
+the ui looks good +and it has single click send to e-mail +and also “Magic Link” login for easy access on eReaders.. +that’s great.
+what is that i’m running?
+just the base calibre-server
that comes with the calibre package in apt.
okay new goal: install and run calibre-web
,
+and stop using calibre-server
?
so anyway i started using abduco + dvtm on my pi +just to test it out +and see what it was like +and i quite like it! +dvtm especially is kind of nice +as a tiling window manager for the terminal.
+abduco isn’t in the package repository at work, +but i started using dtach + dvtm this week. +we’ll see if i stick with it. +pretty nice so far!
+ + ]]> +a media server alternative to plex +that is supposed to be much lighter and more simple +than plex.
+ ]]> +https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3
+but i kept getting an empty file for some reason?
+no matter, downloaded it to my laptop and scp
d it
unzipped it on the pi and
+
+calibre-customize --add DeDRM.zip
+
it wasn’t working at that point because i didn’t have any keys defined in the dedrm.json
so I scp
d my config json from my laptop to .config/calibre/plugins/DeDRM
. at this point, i’m still unable to open the book after adding it via the web ui. but when i calibredb --add book.epub --with-library=books --duplicates
on the pi terminal, it adds it. (--duplicates
is necessary only in this test instance because—oops!—turns out i already have this book in my library, but i am determined to use this opportunity to set up DeDRM. i will delete the duplicate later.) I can’t verify in the web ui though because it’s not showing the duplicate. must have merged it with the old one.
oh well. i’ll try it again next time i get a book from the library. shortest wait: currently 6 weeks.
+actually no, let’s just go checkout an Available Now book. Song of Achilles. I liked Circe. Let’s get this one.
+confirmed: can add the book via web ui, but not open or read it because of drm
confirmed: can scp the book to the pi, calibre add book.epub --with-library=books
and get an Added book ids: <id>
message
confirmed: new book does NOT show up in web ui after killing and restarting the daemon
confirmed: the book IS there:
+ ```
+ $ calibredb list --search='id:3' --with-library=books
+ id title authors
+ 3 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
+ $ #wtf
+ ```
+
what the hell. does calibre-server
has a db cache or something? i don’t see anything
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre-server.html
+i give up for now
+~
+to kill the process:
+
+ps aux | grep calibre
+
and then kill the id
+removing the dulplicate:
+``` +calibredb search ‘title:“world we make”’ –with-library=books
++1,2 +calibredb list –search ‘id:2’ –with-library=books +(book info) +calibredb list –search ‘id:1’ –with-library=books +(book info) +calibredb remove 2 +```
tags: #calibre #drm
+ ]]> +pi became unresponsive last night / this morning to web and ssh so rebooted this morning and restarted web services. everything seems to be fine now.
+found these resources recently and consider them next steps on my todo list:
+Add deDRM tools for CLI so I can upload library books. I can pretty much delete local calibre after this. https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/CALIBRE_CLI_INSTRUCTIONS.md
Be your own CA Authority! which initially sounds to me like not that good of an idea, but then I can use https
for my local webservices. https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/
still want to install a reverse proxy (lapis + openresty?) so i can hit canonical urls instead of typing in address + port number. this would make it easier to share URLs with household members. NOTE: do i want a local DNS server??
Incidentally, mDNS seemed to just magically start working on its self at some point. I can hit my pi’s url on macbook and on my phone now. weeeeeird
+tags: #reboot #mdns
+ ]]> +tags: #calibre #rpg #metadata
+ ]]> +not a solution but a workaround (for desktop only): added a line to /etc/hosts
on my MBP:
+192.168.0.83 pi.local
+
and now i can hit e.g. calibre with http://pi.local:8080
+maybe i can configure something on my actual router?
+tags: #mdns
+ ]]> +one thing i would like to be able to do +is to read my rss feeds on my computer +and on my phone +and on my tablet, +and have my un/read status sync between decives.
+which i guess means hosting a feed reader!
+i glanced at awesome-selfhosted
+and then asked some of my friends in the basement
+because i know that they have already undertaken
+great adventures in rss,
+trailblazers that they are.
and they recommended miniflux.
+written in go, and it uses postgres.
+luckily they have a docker image so i don’t have to install either.
+the docker-compose file on their installation instructions is a little out of date,
+but you can find a more correct ‘basic.yml’ on github at miniflux/v2
after a few tweaks, +it is installed and running!
+the ui is super minimal. +i’m sure i’ll grow to like it, +but at the moment +i am missing the classic +three-pane “feeds / entries / content” view.
+Up next:
+tags: #rss #feeds #miniflux
+ ]]> +calibre-server
. (and then remove it.) got the web server up and running pretty easy.
+fussed around for a while trying to make a second calibre library out of my rpg collection. here’s what ended up working:
+create a new dir and then calibredb add path/to/file.pdf --library-path new/library/location
. adding a single file this way created the necessary database file. then i was able to find rpgsbak -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec -I {} calibredb add {} --library-path new/library/loction
. (or something like that; wrote the command just now from memory.) and pull all my pdfs in!
so now i have 1.4k pdfs in a new ‘rpgs’ library alongside my ‘books’ library.
+on the whole, hobby ttrpg creators can stand to get a LOT better at exporting metadata with their pdfs. now i have a whole lot of manual updating to do. but i can read books and pdfs now from my calibre library on any device on the network.
+also adding new items via the web ui is pretty easy!
+TODO: disable converting to epub on ‘read’ for rpg library. ‘download’ to read still works great for reading in the meantime.
+tags: #calibre
+ ]]> +awesome-selfhosted
on github and decided on photoprism
+it has a docker image and i was able to get it working no problem, with no modifications. quick and easy. this is the future containers promised us.
+the ui is slow. i have the number of workers cranked down to 1. might bump it to 2.
+i had been rsyncing photos to the pi and then reindexing the collection. but i’m finding it quicker to do a bulk upload using the web ui. it’s working rather reliably. it still has to reindex on upload, but i no longer have to reindex the entire collection.
+tags: #photos #photoprism
+ ]]> +git init --bare repo.git
.
+Copy my ssh key over and add an entry to .ssh/config
:
+ 21 ā Host git
+ 22 ā Hostname 192.168.0.83
+ 23 ā User git
+ 24 ā IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
+
Now I can git remote add pi git:repo.git
in a local repo and push away!
tags: #git
+ ]]> +I have a raspberry pi model 3b that has been gathering dust in a drawer for a couple years now.
+I decided I wanted to dust it off and use it to backup some photos and some files.
+I bought a 4TB external hard drive and a 128gb microSD card and hooked it all up.
+I downloaded the NOOBS installer from raspberrypi.com/software and installed it on the SD card, which I was able to do because I have a ton of dongles thanks to the fact that my MacbookPro has no peripherals. I popped the card in to the pi, connected my usb keyboard and hdmi monitor and booted it up, and went through the setup.
+Then, after testing that I can ssh into the pi, I unplugged my keyboard and monitor and never plugged them back in again.
+Plugged in my hard drive and formatted it with an ext3 filesystem.
+Created a backup user. (Not a spare user in case of emergencies, but a user specifically for creating backups.)
+Copied my ssh keys over:
+
+ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa pi.local
+
Mounted the drive, added it to /etc/fstab
so it will auto-mount, and added a slight delay to the boot command so that there is time for the drive to mount before the system boots. As suggested here:
https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/
+Copied over my first photo export and my calibre library with an rsync -zaP
.
Messed around with mDNS and avahi-daemon because I can’t hit http://pi.local in the browser. Still haven’t figured this out.
+tags: #mdns #getting-started
+ ]]> +adventures with my raspberry pi
+ +Hi! This is my journal about my experiences, exploits, and hijinks +while setting up a raspberry pi homelab. it is a Pi 3 Model B named +guyute
+okay so tomasino reminded me today that i used to love listening to +audiobooks.
+https://labs.tomasino.org/audiobooks/
+but i havenāt done it as fanatically as i used to in a long time. for +a while, i didnāt have a commute. and now i do, but i often carpool. but +sometimes i have a solo, quiet commute. ideal for some audiobooks!
+further complications: i am unable to download and archive audiobooks +from overdrive the same way i used to be able to. because they barely +support their desktop apps anymore, and instead push really hard for +everybody to use their streaming apps.
+but i learned that if i spoof my user-agent
+https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/
+then i can get a āHave overdrive for mac/windows?ā link upon checkout +that will enable me to download the odm file. which i can then use to +download the mp3s thanks to this special little script.
+https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal/blob/master/bin/overdrive
+so thatās great! while i was troubleshooting all of this, i +downloaded a book to my linux laptop, because the download link is +already readily available there, and then transferred it over to the +pi.
+so now i guess iām going to start collecting and archiving audiobooks +on the pi too! i might look into jellyfin in earnest so i can serve them +and download them over my home network.
+i might also have to start really considering a vpn so i can access +my files away from the house.
+just a quick note to look into configuring email for calibre-web so i +can send books direct to my kindle
+whoa this fork looks really great compared to what i have
+https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
+the ui looks good and it has single click send to e-mail and also +āMagic Linkā login for easy access on eReaders.. thatās great.
+what is that iām running?
+just the base calibre-server
that comes with the calibre
+package in apt.
okay new goal: install and run calibre-web
, and stop
+using calibre-server
?
i canāt remember how i fell down this rabbit hole.. i think itās +because elly had been talking about dtach over on #tildetown, which is a +utility that just provides the attach/detach functionality of tmux.
+so anyway i started using abduco + dvtm on my pi just to test it out +and see what it was like and i quite like it! dvtm especially is kind of +nice as a tiling window manager for the terminal.
+abduco isnāt in the package repository at work, but i started using +dtach + dvtm this week. weāll see if i stick with it. pretty nice so +far!
+just a quick note to remind myself to check out jellyfin
+ +a media server alternative to plex that is supposed to be much +lighter and more simple than plex.
+shelled into the pi and curled the latest DeDRM tools release
+https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3
+but i kept getting an empty file for some reason?
+no matter, downloaded it to my laptop and scp
d it
unzipped it on the pi and
+calibre-customize --add DeDRM.zip
+it wasnāt working at that point because i didnāt have any keys
+defined in the dedrm.json
so I scp
d my config
+json from my laptop to .config/calibre/plugins/DeDRM
. at
+this point, iām still unable to open the book after adding it via the
+web ui. but when i
+calibredb --add book.epub --with-library=books --duplicates
+on the pi terminal, it adds it. (--duplicates
is necessary
+only in this test instance becauseāoops!āturns out i already have this
+book in my library, but i am determined to use this opportunity to set
+up DeDRM. i will delete the duplicate later.) I canāt verify in the web
+ui though because itās not showing the duplicate. must have merged it
+with the old one.
oh well. iāll try it again next time i get a book from the library. +shortest wait: currently 6 weeks.
+actually no, letās just go checkout an Available Now book. Song of +Achilles. I liked Circe. Letās get this one.
+confirmed: can add the book via web ui, but not open or read it +because of drm
confirmed: can scp the book to the pi,
+calibre add book.epub --with-library=books
and get an
+Added book ids: <id>
message
confirmed: new book does NOT show up in web ui after killing and +restarting the daemon
confirmed: the book IS there:
+ ```
+ $ calibredb list --search='id:3' --with-library=books
+ id title authors
+ 3 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
+ $ #wtf
+ ```
what the hell. does calibre-server
has a db cache or
+something? i donāt see anything
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre-server.html
+i give up for now
+~
+to kill the process:
+ps aux | grep calibre
+and then kill the id
+removing the dulplicate:
+calibredb search 'title:"world we make"' --with-library=books
+> 1,2
+calibredb list --search 'id:2' --with-library=books
+> (book info)
+calibredb list --search 'id:1' --with-library=books
+> (book info)
+calibredb remove 2
+tags: #calibre #drm
+been uploading photos and books, and editing metadata for my +rpgs.
+pi became unresponsive last night / this morning to web and ssh so +rebooted this morning and restarted web services. everything seems to be +fine now.
+found these resources recently and consider them next steps on my +todo list:
+Add deDRM tools for CLI so I can upload library books. I can +pretty much delete local calibre after this. https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/CALIBRE_CLI_INSTRUCTIONS.md
Be your own CA Authority! which initially sounds to me like not
+that good of an idea, but then I can use https
for my local
+webservices. https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/
still want to install a reverse proxy (lapis + openresty?) so i +can hit canonical urls instead of typing in address + port number. this +would make it easier to share URLs with household members. NOTE: do i +want a local DNS server??
Incidentally, mDNS seemed to just magically start working on its self +at some point. I can hit my piās url on macbook and on my phone now. +weeeeeird
+tags: #reboot #mdns
+tried searching for an rpg that i know is in my collection and +couldnāt find it by title or by author. this is going to be really +painful until i update the metadata on everything. iāve done about 60 so +far. out of 1.4k. big yikes!
+tags: #calibre #rpg #metadata
+still canāt hit any multi DNS urls on any of my devices.
+not a solution but a workaround (for desktop only): added a line to
+/etc/hosts
on my MBP:
192.168.0.83 pi.local
+and now i can hit e.g.Ā calibre with http://pi.local:8080
+maybe i can configure something on my actual router?
+tags: #mdns
+rss reader!
+one thing i would like to be able to do is to read my rss feeds on my +computer and on my phone and on my tablet, and have my un/read status +sync between decives.
+which i guess means hosting a feed reader!
+i glanced at awesome-selfhosted
and then asked some of
+my friends in the basement because i know that they have already
+undertaken great adventures in rss, trailblazers that they are.
and they recommended miniflux.
+written in go, and it uses postgres. luckily they have a docker image
+so i donāt have to install either. the docker-compose file on their
+installation instructions is a little out of date, but you can find a
+more correct ābasic.ymlā on github at miniflux/v2
after a few tweaks, it is installed and running!
+the ui is super minimal. iām sure iāll grow to like it, but at the +moment i am missing the classic three-pane āfeeds / entries / contentā +view.
+Up next:
+tags: #rss #feeds #miniflux
+had to add the upstream debian bullseye repo to install
+calibre-server
. (and then remove it.) got the web server up
+and running pretty easy.
fussed around for a while trying to make a second calibre library out
+of my rpg collection. hereās what ended up working: create a new dir and
+then
+calibredb add path/to/file.pdf --library-path new/library/location
.
+adding a single file this way created the necessary database file. then
+i was able to
+find rpgsbak -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec -I {} calibredb add {} --library-path new/library/loction
.
+(or something like that; wrote the command just now from memory.) and
+pull all my pdfs in!
so now i have 1.4k pdfs in a new ārpgsā library alongside my ābooksā +library.
+on the whole, hobby ttrpg creators can stand to get a LOT better at +exporting metadata with their pdfs. now i have a whole lot of manual +updating to do. but i can read books and pdfs now from my calibre +library on any device on the network.
+also adding new items via the web ui is pretty easy!
+TODO: disable converting to epub on āreadā for rpg library. +ādownloadā to read still works great for reading in the meantime.
+tags: #calibre
+browsed the photo hosting options on awesome-selfhosted
+on github and decided on photoprism
it has a docker image and i was able to get it working no problem, +with no modifications. quick and easy. this is the future containers +promised us.
+the ui is slow. i have the number of workers cranked down to 1. might +bump it to 2.
+i had been rsyncing photos to the pi and then reindexing the +collection. but iām finding it quicker to do a bulk upload using the web +ui. itās working rather reliably. it still has to reindex on upload, but +i no longer have to reindex the entire collection.
+tags: #photos #photoprism
+Add a āgitā user. Create a home dir for it. Do
+git init --bare repo.git
.
Copy my ssh key over and add an entry to
+.ssh/config
:
21 ā Host git
+ 22 ā Hostname 192.168.0.83
+ 23 ā User git
+ 24 ā IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
+Now I can git remote add pi git:repo.git
in a local repo
+and push away!
tags: #git
+Okay letās get this party started!
+I have a raspberry pi model 3b that has been gathering dust in a +drawer for a couple years now.
+I decided I wanted to dust it off and use it to backup some photos +and some files.
+I bought a 4TB external hard drive and a 128gb microSD card and +hooked it all up.
+I downloaded the NOOBS installer from raspberrypi.com/software and +installed it on the SD card, which I was able to do because I have a ton +of dongles thanks to the fact that my MacbookPro has no peripherals. I +popped the card in to the pi, connected my usb keyboard and hdmi monitor +and booted it up, and went through the setup.
+Then, after testing that I can ssh into the pi, I unplugged my +keyboard and monitor and never plugged them back in again.
+Plugged in my hard drive and formatted it with an ext3 +filesystem.
+Created a backup user. (Not a spare user in case of emergencies, but +a user specifically for creating backups.)
+Copied my ssh keys over:
+ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa pi.local
+Mounted the drive, added it to /etc/fstab
so it will
+auto-mount, and added a slight delay to the boot command so that there
+is time for the drive to mount before the system boots. As suggested
+here:
https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/
+Copied over my first photo export and my calibre library with an
+rsync -zaP
.
Messed around with mDNS and avahi-daemon because I canāt hit http://pi.local in the browser. +Still havenāt figured this out.
+tags: #mdns #getting-started
+ +