Is this project dead?

[taibhse-designs]

I really want to use this along with chunky on the iPad Pro but is this project dead? Last update was 6 years ago?

[kounch]

You may try my fork. It is mainly focused on bringing it to Python3, and no binaries are provided:

https://github.com/kounch/ComicStreamer

[taibhse-designs]

You may try my fork. It is mainly focused on bringing it to Python3, and no binaries are provided:

https://github.com/kounch/ComicStreamer

Oh I’ll give it a shot, is it still compatible with chunky and still actively maintained?

[kounch]

I use it on a raspberry pi with chunky every week. I think I have fixed almost all of the problems I have found.

[LETRA]

You may try my fork. It is mainly focused on bringing it to Python3, and no binaries are provided:

https://github.com/kounch/ComicStreamer

@kounch Thank you for reviving the project. I'm trying to get it to work on a Thecus NAS with Debian Net Runner Core installed and it gives me this error message. All the dependencies are satisfied with pip3 also unrar. Any ideas?:

letra@Thecus-N2810:~/Aplicaciones/ComicStreamer-master$ ./comicstreamer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./comicstreamer", line 6, in <module>
    from comicstreamerlib.main import main
  File "/home/letra/.local/share/Trash/files/ComicStreamer-master/comicstreamerlib/main.py", line 35, in <module>
    from server import APIServer
  File "/home/letra/.local/share/Trash/files/ComicStreamer-master/comicstreamerlib/server.py", line 57, in <module>
    from comicapi.comicarchive import *
  File "/home/letra/.local/share/Trash/files/ComicStreamer-master/comicapi/comicarchive.py", line 32, in <module>
    from unrar import rarfile
ImportError: No module named unrar

[kounch]

It seems that you didn't install libunrar with paver (see here: https://github.com/kounch/ComicStreamer/blob/master/README.md#manual-installation-linux-and-macos)

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m paver libunrar

[LETRA]

When I try to install libunrar the following error message appears:

letra@Thecus-N2810:~/Aplicaciones/ComicStreamer-master$ pip3 install paver libunrar
Requirement already satisfied: paver in /home/letra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (1.2.4)
Collecting libunrar
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/libunrar/

The following command I can't execute without that library:

letra@Thecus-N2810:~/Aplicaciones/ComicStreamer-master$ python3 -m paver libunrar
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/letra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/paver/__main__.py", line 2, in <module>
    paver.tasks.main()
  File "/home/letra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/paver/tasks.py", line 878, in main
    _launch_pavement(args)
  File "/home/letra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/paver/tasks.py", line 846, in _launch_pavement
    exec(compile(source, environment.pavement_file, 'exec'), mod.__dict__)
  File "pavement.py", line 20
    print "Fetching " + UNRAR_SRC + "..."        
                    ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Fetching " + UNRAR_SRC + "...")?

[kounch]

I have just tried on a test environment following all the steps as listed on
https://github.com/kounch/ComicStreamer/blob/master/README and it didn't fail.

Looking at your command line it doesn't look like you are inside a python3 venv. Did you follow all the steps in order?

[LETRA]

Before I found your fork I had installed the beville one. I'm going to see if I can clean up the whole previous installation I've done with python 2.7

[kounch]

You must use a clean venv and a clean directory with my fork. Mixing both may have unexpected results.

[LETRA]

I have done a clean installation and it is going well until I check that everything is correct. Then that calls for a module called PIL that I can't install:

letra@Thecus-N2810:~$ sudo /opt/comicstreamer/bin/python3 /opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamer --nobrowser --user-dir /opt/comicstreamer/.ComicStreamer
[sudo] password for letra: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamer", line 11, in <module>
    from comicstreamerlib.main import main
  File "/opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamerlib/main.py", line 31, in <module>
    import comicstreamerlib.utils
  File "/opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamerlib/utils.py", line 31, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

letra@Thecus-N2810:~$ sudo pip3 install pil
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pil (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pil

[kounch]

PIL is part of module Pillow, which is in requirements.txt

If python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt runs well, and inside the venv, it has to be installed.

Again, looking at your command line, it looks like the pip3 install commands are not being done after activating the venv. Could it be that you have made a venv, but then installed all the modules globally in your system?

Please check again that all the steps are done correctly, in the same order, and in the same session.

[LETRA]

Thank you for your answer. That could indeed have happened. I've tried to undo a new clean installation and the only flaw I have is that I can't start it up with the line

/opt/comicstreamer/bin/python3

python3 exists in the folder as symlink to /usr/bin/python3 but comicstreamer doesn't start if I include that route.

I don't know if this is a big problem that causes less security on the server or I can leave it at that. Otherwise your comicstreamer fork seems to be working fine, I just have a problem with the encoding of some Spanish titles:

[kounch]

That's something to look into. If you tag your files with comictagger and rebuild the database, then the titles and other information will be shown correctly.

[LETRA]

I have reconfigured locales to es_ES.UTF-8 because I don't want to load the server too much, since the processor is not very strong and I have read that many tags can give failures in database. Then this error appears when I start the service, however if I launch the command from the terminal comicstreamer works without problems.

letra@Thecus-N2810:~$ sudo systemctl status comicstreamer
● comicstreamer.service - ComicStreamer Service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/comicstreamer.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-05-29 17:24:51 CEST; 6s ago
  Process: 17173 ExecStart=/opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamer --nobrowser --user-dir /opt/comicstreamer/.ComicStreamer (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 17173 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:     Launcher().go()
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:   File "/opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamerlib/main.py", line 59, in go
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:     comicstreamerlib.utils.fix_output_encoding()
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:   File "/opt/comicstreamer/master/comicstreamerlib/utils.py", line 62, in fix_output_encoding
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/locale.py", line 604, in setlocale
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]:     return _setlocale(category, locale)
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 comicstreamer[17173]: locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 systemd[1]: comicstreamer.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
may 29 17:24:51 Thecus-N2810 systemd[1]: comicstreamer.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

[LETRA]

Fixed adding "es_ES.UTF-8" to /usr/lib/python3.7/locale.py line 604