Calibre is a popular self-hosted ebook manager. Github page.
Now, Calibre is a desktop application, not a web application. But there is also Calibre-web, which is a web front end for the Calibre backend.
Should Calibre and Calibre-web be hosted through a single Cloudron application, or 2 separate applications?
Either way, I think these 2 applications could be very powerful on Cloudron.
Hello all!
I've been developing/packaging what I think could be a new form of Cloudron apps, Themes (working title : ). The idea here is a simple Homepage that will display your installed Cloudron applications for easy access. You can see a working copy on my instance here! Be sure to hit space bar to toggle the menu.
Features include:
Note that this is NOT meant to replace the current Cloudron dashboard, but rather be a supplementary 'app browser'. When the menu is displayed in the Homepage App, there is a cog icon at the top right with the time stamp that will take you straight to your original Cloudron dashboard when you need full access to Backups, Logs, etc.
This app is based on the homepage-cloudron repo, which is based off of the homepage repo, both of which I am the author of. Happy to answer any questions! You can find the Cloudron packaged app here.
If this is interesting, I could work up some basic tests for this to eventually be included in the actual Cloudron App Store. Though it is important to note that for this to work properly, the setup requires creating a new Cloudron API key and updating the config.json file through the Terminal (not super user-friendly).
Thoughts/suggestions/notes welcome!
I think I've managed to get a basic version of Firefly III packaged! You can find the Git repo here. The main thing to note is that the LDAP connection doesn't quite work with Cloudron's system yet. @girish @nebulon I'm hoping one of you can help look through this and see if we can get a proper connection going? If we can link up the LDAP system, I'm happy to write some tests for this app so we can publish it to the Cloudron App Store.
There's also a no-ldap branch available which will let users register their own accounts on the app, not trying to use LDAP at all. If we can't get a successful LDAP connection going, then I can write tests for this version instead for the App Store.
@BrentHueth 
that makes me happy
@murgero yes, this is similar to Heimdall, it's based off of this Github project of which I'm the author. This particular app is purposefully packaged for Cloudron in that you give it an API key and it will auto-populate with all of your Cloudron apps, so no custom links at the moment.
https://sr.ht has recently been deployed to general availability. It seems like a Phabricator like tool in that it has many different aspects. git, CI, mailing list management, wiki, etc.
This is awesome and much awaited, thanks!
Quick question: if I've been using the self-build version of the Bitwarden_rs app for a while, are there easy upgrade instructions to switch over to the official App Store version now?
@necrevistonnezr I actually wrote a post about migrating email hosts using the imapsync tool that girish recommended, you can check it out here. Note that my post is a bit more extensive as I also migrated registrars and had other active emails there that weren't mine, so yours should hopefully be a bit easier than the whole tutorial!
@girish I believe I've completed the development of PrivateBin for Cloudron! You can view the source here. It's currently working on the latest 1.3.1 release and has Selenium tests for the app's basic functionality. I'd love for it to be published to the Cloudron App Store - let me know if you need anything else!
@stantropics I like that. I've always been a fan of ReleaseBell and think it has some potential. I could also see integrating other git hosts such as Gitlab. Potentially a good way to go about this is to add an input for a git repo RSS feed that could monitor releases? Just a thought!
I'm a software engineer and always loved web technologies. I got into self-hosted because Google Reader shut down (@girish isn't alone!). I felt pretty strongly about it and even wrote a blog post about how I got into it - featuring Cloudron of course. Now self hosting is a hobby on the side of my main work.
@stantropics I like that. I've always been a fan of ReleaseBell and think it has some potential. I could also see integrating other git hosts such as Gitlab. Potentially a good way to go about this is to add an input for a git repo RSS feed that could monitor releases? Just a thought!
@murgero sure! Let me know if you have any notes/suggestions!
@BrentHueth that makes me happy
@murgero yes, this is similar to Heimdall, it's based off of this Github project of which I'm the author. This particular app is purposefully packaged for Cloudron in that you give it an API key and it will auto-populate with all of your Cloudron apps, so no custom links at the moment.
@BrentHueth absolutely it's something you can try out! You can simply clone the repo and then do a cloudron build and cloudron install (there are some prerequisites to this, be sure to check the official Cloudron documentation). I gave you developer access to the repo in case you did want to contribute, just know that the git.cloudron repo is the Cloudron packaged app, you can find the actual application on Github here.
@girish I may not have come across well (I tend to do that 
). As far as I know, Calibre-web uses the Calibre application as a database/backend. I thought that Calibre proper was also the only way to get an OPDS catalog available to e-readers, but it turns out that Calibre-web offers this as well. What this means is that Calibre doesn't need to be accessible to the www, but still needs to be part of the package as that is the actual book database behind Calibre-web. Hope that helps!
I very much like the idea for such a dashboard being installed as an app instead of trying to make the main/admin dashboard overly configurable or theme-able.
Agreed! I like the idea of a new addon type that would give an app 'automatic access' (doesn't have to be configured by end user) to some API endpoints. I agree with @girish that read-only access would work, but even just the 2 endpoints I listed above would be a solid start. I could eventually see endpoints like 'Get Status' or streams from tasks or services being handy for such dashboards.
@ultraviolet Ok, I'm starting to find my way here.
The admin:admin123 credentials worked great! Eventually it'd be cool to tie into Cloudron's LDAP, but I know I'm asking for a lot 
Also, it turns out that Calibre-web offers its own OPDS catalog at calibre.cloudron.com/opds, so I was able to connect my e-reader to that endpoint and download a book, meaning that exposing the real Calibre's endpoint to the www might not be necessary after all!
Very good work, thanks again! I'll be migrating my exiting Calibre library over during the next few days!
@girish Had a thought for the base Cloudron image/API to help make such a dashboard (and potentially others) more accessible to everyday users. At the moment, for Homepage to run properly, it requires the user create a new API key and insert it into the config.json file through the Terminal. The only calls needed by the application are the GET for /api/v1/apps and /api/v1/apps/{$cloudron_app_id}/icon for getting the list of applications installed on this Cloudron instance and their respective icon files.
The thought is what if the Cloudron API white-listed some calls to its own internal IP/URL? Not sure if this is a thing, but pretty much, if a call is made to the endpoints above (and potentially other 'harmless', non-destructive endpoints), and the referring URL is on the instance's own domain (i.e. the call to my.cloudron.com/api/v1/apps is coming from homepage.cloudron.com) then it wouldn't necessarily need an API key.
If this were implemented, then Homepage and future dashboard apps wouldn't need any user intervention in order to display all the Cloudron instance's installed applications and icons.
Just a thought! Happy to hear what you think of such a solution.
@ultraviolet unfortunately I didn't get very far yet... I'm not able to login on my fresh install of your Cloudron package. It looks as if you're trying to set up LDAP, however, I'm not able to login with my main Cloudron user and not sure if there's another default login to get past the original Calibre-web login form.
Another question for you: Is the Calibre server port exposed as well as the calibre-web application? For example, I like having access to Calibre-web as a GUI for managing the Calibre library, but I have an e-reader that can plug into Calibre's OPDS catalog in order to download books.
@ultraviolet Wow! If this works and packages both Calibre and Calibre-web then I will be one happy camper! I'm installing it now and will give it a whirl. I'm not a super active user of these services but I do have a bit of a library and use it every so often to download some books to my reader. I'll leave any notes. Thanks for tackling this!