Nah, I don't like that workaroud at all: I've spent quite a lot of time getting all the metadata into my collection, I don't want to remove it now

This requires new development. When opening OPDS feeds, we see different choices "Folder", "Latest", "All comics". We should add new choices there: "Series", "Authors" ["publishers" ...]

From what I see, ubooquity is building a database when scanning the files. Ubooquity could use queries to build the new reports from existing feature:

- "Folder" option should not read the meatada and display the collection by folder and by filename, like you would see in windows explorer

- new choice: "By series". This would read the metada and display by series and inside by number

- new choice: "By author". This would read the metada and display by author/series/number

At the end of scanning, ubooquity could build tables that would pre-process that information so ubooquity could generate the opds feed easily from those table [could achieve the same result with queries, but it might require too much load on a small NAS... ]

you need to uncomment the $MEM parameter, and that should work.

See last post: I've put my script there

Hi all. there has been a sub-thread about special characters. Here I put my full script, that is working on my synology ds212. Adapt to you environment and save as "ubooquity.conf" in /etc/init/ folder on your NAS

#============================================
#                 Ubooquity
# upstart job configuration file for automatically
# starting ubooquity when syno starts
# title        :ubooquity.conf
# date        :20 11 2015
# original source: ubooquity forum about special characters
# http://ubooquity.userecho.com/topic/907059-comics-not-imported-umlaut-mark-bug/
#=============================================description "start/stop Ubooquity"
author "Elouan Le Bretton"

# automatically starts ubooquity after apache has been started
start on started httpd-user

# stop ubooquity on
stop on runlevel [06]

# [TODO] automatically respawn ubooquity if stops
# respawn
# respawn limit 5 10

# run the scripts as the 'http' user. Running as root (the default) is a bad idea.
setuid http

script # System variables.
 JAVA_DIR=/volume1/@appstore/java8/ejdk1.8.0_65/linux_arm_sflt/jre/bin
 WORK_DIR='/volume1/comics/.Ubooquity'
 PKG_DIR=/var/packages/Ubooquity
 PORT=2202
 MEM=Xmx128m
  # prepare environment
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  export LANG
  exec $JAVA_DIR/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -$MEM -jar $PKG_DIR/Ubooquity.jar --port $PORT --webadmin --headless --workdir $WORK_DIR
end script

This happened to me quite a few times because of memory issue: java was issuing memory exceptions. I had to kill ubooquity, delete the pdf file, and relaunch ubooquity

The workaround that I've find to import those files anyway is to convert pdf into cbz: I've never had any memory issues with cbz

Thanks for the credit, but actually, I found the solution there. with a full script that launch syno automatically at boot

I've made another change to get ubooquity to read files/folders with special characters (lilke é, ü) : added encoding option when lauching java. It now reads like:

exec $JAVA_DIR/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx128m -jar /var/packages/Ubooquity/Ubooquity.jar --port $PORT --webadmin --workdir $WORK_DIR

Ok, I've found the solution in another topic: http://ubooquity.userecho.com/topic/907059-comics-not-imported-umlaut-mark-bug/

had to add encoding utf-8 option in the java options...

I use ubooquity on my synology DS212, and it's working fine. I'm pretty sure it should work fine on your Syno too.

I have 2 suggestions:

1: check the name of the folder you are trying to scan: "/Volume_1/Comics". On my station, the name is "volume1", not "Volume_1".

2: check the permissions on the folders you are trying to access with ubooquity. I granted read/write privileges for all user on my installation...there probalbly some way to make that more secure but haven't done that yet!

I second the request: would be a very nice to have feature. And since you can read metada, you could add browsing with series along wiht browsing with author

exec /var/packages/JavaManager/target/Java/bin/java -Duser.dir='/volume1/Comics/Ubooquity' -jar -Xmx1024m /var/packages/Ubooquity/Ubooquity.jar -port 2202 -webadmin

exec /volume1/@appstore/java8/ejdk1.8.0_51/linux_arm_sflt/jre/bin/java -jar -Xmx128m /var/packages/Ubooquity/Ubooquity.jar --port 2202 --webadmin --workdir '/volume1/comics/Ubooquity'