Kavita Reader the Ubooquity killer 

If you need assistance head to the Discord channel. There is one specifically for support. I run my Kavita in Ubuntu but I use Docker. Docker is so much easier and I get all the updates from the Nightly build with a few mouse clicks. It is well worth learning the basics.

Well you can actually. Just put something random in the email server line. When you make a user account it will give you a link to copy and paste to complete the process. So you don’t need open ports if you don’t want to use that feature.

Hello. My best advice is to hop onto the Kavita Discord server. There is a room in there with several people able to help. Basically when you add a Library, in the gui you should be able to go one more layer down to ensure you see the folders that hold the books. And btw books cannot be at the top level of the shared folder. They need another folder one layer down. So /share/books/author/files and a lot of this is covered in the Kavita wiki.

@@AllenSampsell I visited kavita wiki but I admit I had no solution. Is it possible to send you screenshots to guide me? I posed the problem on your forum

@@simplelife4135 I am not in my home country this week but I can certainly take a look at what you post on the forum. I would suggest you show your config minus and usernames or passwords. And screenshots of what you see when you add a library. I’ll take a look when I can.

If you're going to read from inside your home network on the ipad then you just use the IP:port of the machine running Kavita. So ipaddress:port from say Chrome on an iPAD should get you to the exposed port on the Windows machine. You might have to allow connections to that port in the Windows Firewall.... If you're trying to read from outside your home network, then that's a whole different level of effort. You'll need to forward a port in your router, have a hostname with DNS pointing to your home's WAN IP address, maybe need dynamic DNS setup if/when your WAN IP changes... This is not a small thing.

@@AllenSampsell Id love to see a tutorial on t something like this, books on the go are a big plus! This would create a deeper level of use for this technology. I was looking at giving it a go myself, but sadly my current router is locked down, I am waiting to see if I can get a ubiquity router so I can enable the port-forwarding feature on sinology..

@@zeldfep Well, my suggestion to you is look into using a Reverse Proxy like Nginx Proxy Manager, instead of opening a bunch of ports. This way you'd open just the minimum and the reverse proxy will point to the right service. But you're right, the first step for you is to have a router that support what you're trying to do.

You can now. It’s a feature they added in the most recent release.

I’m not sure I understand your question. I use a NAS as well. All the files Kavita looks at for its libraries are on my NAS. However if your file and folder structure are completely supported by Kavita is a different issue.

@@AllenSampsell thanks for the reply I means I have send tutorial to save comic and book inside docker folder which I don’t want I try to add my my comic path as point the same to director ( after clone : ) still not working don’t know what I am doing wrong

@@civilsachin22 The comics and books are stored on the NAS. The Docker container is run on a completely different machine. In the Docker config you are pointing to the network folder on the NAS. How you do that is different for everyone. I suggest going to the Kavita Discord and asking for assistance there. Some things I just can't help with.

The UI looks great. It works well on Computer Browser or Tablet/phone. It really does work quite well. I'd never go back to Ubooquity.

Komga doesn’t fully support epubs (just pulls images), Kavita does. Komga has OPDS support, Kavita doesn’t yet. It’s on their roadmap though.

One thing I noticed about Komga is that it is really built towards comics, while Kavita is more of a general solution. Definitely Komga is more of a mature solution and Kavita is still in development but has a solid base. But I think that with the speed of updates Kavita has been getting and the roadmap on the Github, it will speed past Komga.

@@josephmilazzo8713 my main problem with Komga is that it's SLOW. Like really slow. Scanning thousands of items in cripples even a powerful server.

@@Deenyoro I would try Kavita out. I have a small library of half a terabyte, but some of my users have thousands of thousands of comics and are reporting good things. I tried to balance speed and memory. The best thing is after the first scan, subsequent scans only read if files are modified or update what was changed, so we aren't starting from scratch each time.

While I’m not the developer I’m going to guess No. I don’t think Plex does addons. And you want to read books or manga on your TV?

@@AllenSampsell with plex you can download videos or audiobooks to any device that you can sign onto plex with. For example I can have the plex app on my tablet and access my plex server from anywhere. You can see how great that is. Unfortunately I can only add audio books to plex at this time since they are like music (audio file), which plex supports. Plex does not recognize the type of files that ebooks and comics are though.

@@TheCorneringStore sorry I don’t understand your comment. Plex handles videos and audio files. This video is about Kavita which is a self hosted application for manga/epubs/PDFs. Two different applications. The original question from TheCollectorX was asking about an arson for bringing Kavita’s capabilities into Plex via an addon of some sort. But Plex doesn’t do addons anymore and even if they did I don’t think you could bridge the two applications in a coherent way.

@@AllenSampsell you asked if he wanted to read on his TV. By that comment I'd guessed that you don't understand that you can use a tablet with plex.

@@TheCorneringStore ahh did not read all the back comments. We’re talking past each other. I’ve been running Plex for many years and I’m very familiar with all it can do. I just wanted to understand his use case. Bottom line, no integration with Plex or Emby.

Well you can run Kavita on a Windows machine or Linux or Docker. You can read it from any device with a browser. Hope that helps. There is no “app” for iOS.

If Ubooquity, I use with Chunky, but I have issues with Ubooquity. Kavita is awesome so far, so I hope Chunky can intergrate with Kavita.

@@SayaAmirulSyamim Kavita now has OPDS and works great with Chunky reader.

@@josephmilazzo8713 yup funny how after i donwloaded Kavita then a few days later it has the OPDS update and I'm and loving it

Yeah I'm not the Developer and that's not how Kavita works. I get what you're saying but that's how Ubooquity works with a folder view. It does take some renaming of files (and .opf for ebooks) at times to get Kavita to show everything correctly but it's worth the effort in my opinion. So take a look at the Kavita Wiki for the naming conventions for files and use a bulk file renaming program after you test one series and it comes into Kavita correctly. Best advice I can give you. wiki.kavitareader.com/en/faq/folders-and-file-structure

LOL I have my entire server rack sitting right next to my desk. I use noise suppression software when I record but it can't cut out all the noise from a Dell R710 with the fans going.

@@AllenSampsell sounds like a ~600hz tone, but only when you talk.

@@ibjessup noticed that too. Almost sounds like distorted feedback? Might be a microphone issue? maybe?

@@AllenSampsell I think I found it. This is a spectrogram of the audio from this video. imgur.com/uK7rzTG The selection is the part where you say "My name is Allen Sampsell". I'm not sure what you are using for noise suppression or audio editing, but It looks like you could probably get away with just bringing the EQ level for 400hz all the way down. Fighting with fan noise is always going to be rough. Thanks for your videos and keep up the great work!

@@ibjessup ahh interesting. I didn’t hear it and others said they didn’t but numbers don’t lie lol. I did actually try something different this time. I’m mixing the audio from two different mics. I think I cranked the gain too much on the shotgun mic and created some feedback. Was just trying to make the audio better but that backfired.

@@kyfisher3662 I guess it’s all opinion but I like Kavita’s ebook interface. An since Ubooquity isn’t updating eventually it’ll be left behind.

Well I’m not a millennial, I love anime and Harry Potter as well. Anyone can love either. But this is about Manga and ebooks. Comics as well. So no idea what your issue is. Are you younger than a millennial? Does that have a name yet? lol

@@AllenSampsell gen z is 26, that makes millenials old as fuk and lame as duk compared to gen x. anime lol

GenZ replying to this video intended for adults is pretty creepy. Move along!