Add support for Kobo Sage

[pmohan6]

Hi there,

It looks like October doesn't support Sage yet. Are there any plans on adding support? If not, are there any pointers on how I can send a PR for it?

FYI, this is the error that I get when I try to select Sage -

Would really appreciate the help here!

[pmohan6]

FWIW, I do see the sqlite DB file at the location referenced here at the following location - /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite on my macOS (12.1 Monterey)

[marcus-crane]

Hey there,

Under the hood, October uses pgaskin/koboutils which has support for Kobo Sage. The same version added support for the Libra 2, which is what I use myself. That said, I don't have a Kobo Sage to try it myself but I would assume it roughly works the same.

For Kobo's that are properly unrecognised, the button would change to say something along the lines of "Unknown Kobo".

That said, I just noticed that this bit of the README is out of date so I should update that to say at present, October should support all known Kobos released 🙂

As far as debugging the actual issue though:

• Could you forward me a copy of your logs stored at ~/Library/Application Support/october/logs to [email protected] for investigating?

You should be able to jump there by going to Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder and then entering the path above.

That should hopefully shed some light on what exactly is happening. You're welcome to read them yourself of course if you're comfortable doing so but October doesn't have any telemetry or anything like that so I don't have visibility into what might be going wrong 👀

Thanks!

[pmohan6]

Thanks for looking into this! I just sent you an email with the logs.

[marcus-crane]

Just as a reminder to myself, the issue interestingly enough is that @pmohan6's Kobo database doesn't show up at /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite which is the standard route on macOS.

I've asked if he can plug in his Kobo and check how it's being mounted. The underlying Kobo library I use does technically support polling different locations (ie; /Volumes/KOBOeReader (1)) but I don't do anything fancy as it's rare that anyone would connect multiple Kobo's at once but still technically possible