Hello all,

I wanted to help out a bit because I use Ubooquity a lot and I'm grateful that Tom shares it with us free of charge. Also, I'm retired and a little bit bored. LOL!

Anyway, before Ubooquity v3 came out I was using a Docker install of Ubooquity v2 that was installed through App Central (the app store on my NAS).  I checked out a few themes and settled on Comixology 2.  All was well.  

Then, when v3 became available I wanted to check it out but there was no official App Central release.  So, I downloaded it directly from the website, ran it in an SSH shell, manually poked holes in my firewall, and used a script to start and stop it so I could quickly develop a new theme for it.  Once I finished my theme, I decided to work on creating an .apk that would actually install Ubooquity to the NAS as an app.  Much to my surprise, it was far easier that I thought it would be and, after discussing it with Tom, I was given the green light to show you exactly how to package Ubooquity as an app that can be uploaded and installed manually to an ASUSTOR NAS.

Ubooquity v3.1 ASUSTOR NAS.zip

The above file contains a prepackaged .apk that can be used for new installs.  You need do nothing more than upload the included ubooquity_3.1_x86-64.apk manually in App Central, wait about 10-20 seconds for Ubooquity to fully load, click on the Ubooquity icon to start it in admin mode, setup Ubooquity's libraries, and run your first scan.

However, for those of us who like to customize things like ports, directory structures, and where our databases are kept, I've included pretty detailed instructions in the included README.pdf on how to edit specific files and create your own customized .apk.

Eventually, this process will probably be standardized so that Ubooquity releases can be distributed directly through the Asustor App Central store again.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

G

I've been struggling to run Ubooquity with the latest Java update.

Usually, there's no trouble, I just redirect my shortcut to the new javaw.exe when the version gets updated however this time when I do that nothing happens and the log shows:

20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - #############################
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - # Starting Ubooquity #
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - #############################
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Java version: 1.8.0_451
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Java vendor: Oracle Corporation
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - java vm name: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - java runtime name: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Max heap size available: 1422 MB
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - OS name: Windows 10
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - OS version: 10.0
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - OS architecture: amd64
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Loading local version info
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Ubooquity 2.1.5 built on 2024-10-13 at 20:50
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Creating application folders
20250505 00:39:40 [main] INFO com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Loading preferences
20250505 00:39:41 [main] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.util.log - Logging initialized @2772ms to org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Slf4jLog
20250505 00:39:41 [Thread-2] INFO com.ubooquity.b - Stopping internal server...
20250505 00:39:41 [Thread-2] INFO com.ubooquity.data.feeder.a - Aborting content scan...
20250505 00:39:41 [Thread-2] ERROR com.ubooquity.b - Error while stopping internal server
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at com.ubooquity.d.e.a(SourceFile:99) ~[Ubooquity.jar:2.1.5]
at com.ubooquity.b.c(SourceFile:112) ~[Ubooquity.jar:2.1.5]
at com.ubooquity.Ubooquity.C(SourceFile:216) [Ubooquity.jar:2.1.5]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_451]

It looks like I can run the V3.02 beta but I'd vastly prefer to continue using V2

I have been informed today of a severe vulnerability in the last available version of Ubooquity 2 (version 2.1.2).

A fixed version is available on the usual download page, version 2.1.4.

Please update as soon as possible.

Ubooquity 3 is not impacted by this vulnerability and can be used safely.

Already sharing, for example, "/media/Comic Books/" but when I try to share the folder "/media/Comic Books - Golden Age/" it says "ERROR: Folder already shared or containing an already shared folder."  It appears to happen whenever two folder names contain the same beginning.

Only feature I think would be really helpful is being able to filter what users can view based on the rating given in the metadata and/or only allowing specified user groups to see a shared folder.

Just wondering if you've thought of making it so that it all chapters/books in a collection are all marked as red to have it show on the main page also

Anybody could tell me if this software is dead?

I mean, without maintenance and without upgrades.

I cannot currently remember exactly how to connect friends’ Chunky apps to my ubooquity server. What’s frustrating is:

My own chunky was set up to connect to ubooquity ages ago, and works! But Chunky doesn’t really let you see the details of the settings, so I have no idea how it is configured.

I can log on to the web version!

I have tried an exhausting number of combinations:

domain:port

Added http:// and https://

Added /opds-comics and /opds-comics/

Added /ubooquity/opds-comics

Tried IP number address instead of no-ip domain

Tried admin login instead of user login

Please help, it’s driving me crazy

Original message removed by Tom

Message from Tom:

I'm not at all against mentioning alternatives to Ubooquity, we all love books and ways to manage them here, and having several tools do it is good.

But a full promotional post for Kavita, without even asking first is crossing a line for me. This is not the right place.

Hope you'll understand.

With large collections, it can be tricky to remember where I left off. Would be awesome if there was a way to have a read comic easy to identify.