


Now when I edit meta info in the desktop app, it is automatically updated in the web app as well. I swap the library in my app and then select my Nas folder. The default login is “admin” with password “admin123”.ĭone! Of course, I can now also connect the desktop app via my “book folder”. The rest of the settings are a matter of taste. As “Location of Calibre Database” I enter “/calibre”. I now call my Synology IP with the assigned Calibre port and see the following picture. Without fixed ports it could be that Calibre runs on a different port after a reboot.Īfter these settings Calibre can be started! I assign fixed ports for the Calibre container. There I create a new database folder with this mount path “/calibre”. I select the “Volume” tab and click on “Add Folder”. Launch the container to begin configuring it.

After it’s done downloading, it will move into the Image tab. Once you find the one you would like, select it and click download it.

We prefer LinuxServer’s automatic builds. Step 4: Put the image into operation:Īfter that I click on “Advanced settings” and activate the “Automatic restart”. Once Docker has been installed, run it and navigate to the registry tab to search for Calibre-web. Before we now create a container from the image, a few settings must be made. Docker distinguishes between 2 states, container “dynamic state” and image/image (fixed state). I select the Docker image “janeczku/calibre-web” and then click on the tag “latest”.Īfter the image download, the image is available as an image. I click on the “Registry” tab in the Synology Docker window and search for “Calibre”. I myself copied the existing library of the desktop application. Now I copy an existing library or “ this empty sample library” to the new directory. I go to the “Control Panel” -> “Shared Folder” and create a new folder “Books”. Step 1: Create folderįirst, I create a folder for the Calibre library. This tutorial is for all Synology DS professionals. Please take a look at this new tutorial: Great things with containers: Running Calibre with Docker Compose. How do I install Calibre-Web as a Docker container on my Synology nas?Attention: This installation way is outdated and is not compatible with the current Calibre software.
