With Komga’s reading progress sync working so great now (seriously, thank you!) there’s still one thing that feels a bit clunky with the streaming experience:
I was thinking, if you’re able to grab and send the sync progress, I imagine you’re already using the API. If so, would it be possible to also use the API to pull in the cover images for these collections? Reading orders at least show the issues since it’s a collection of… well, issues. Collections are a group of folders though, meaning they will always show up as blank folders.
If Panels could pull in the images for these collections it would make navigating them a lot easier due to the visual cues. This is definitely not a high priority or anything, just a quality of life feature that would make the streaming experience that much better
I think this could be some excellent feedback for Komga.
We recently added support for their API to sync progress. But the library implementation is a pure OPDS feed frontend.
OPDS supports thumbnails; actually, Komga returns them for Series.
It would be nice if Komga would also return a thumbnail URL for the Collection items in their feed.
We plan to keep our OPDS frontend as compliant to specs as possible and not add server-specific workarounds primarily when the specs already support the feature.
Komga is claiming that images can only be sent for acquisition items, not for folders. They have the covers available via the API but regular OPDS can’t support it. Does that sound right to you?
OPDS doesn’t support thumbnails for folders, only for acquisition items (ie books).
Panels uses the Komga API to retrieve the Series thumbnails. They could do the same thing for collections/readlists.
It will be the same link/testers group, but a new version.
We are reviewing the changes internally. Hopefully, I can get them integrated in the main branch and create the new Testflight build in the next 24-72 h
I just have to say… I was a diehard Chunky user, even beta testing TNG until it finally died. I never thought I’d find an app that rivaled the functionality of that app, but Panels has blown me away. Not just the app itself, but your commitment to the community you’ve built is outstanding, and you’ve definitely earned a customer for life. Thank for for being so receptive to feedback and for making Panels be the app to goto for comics and manga.
Based on your description I thought it would just pull in the cover of the first series or something, but it’s pulling in the exact custom covers I set in Komga. Thank you!
I recently had a komga server setup with a local ip adress and the series covers all loaded perfectly in panels.
I now set the komga server to use a subdirectory of a domain as the url (https://mydomain.com/komga) and set a custom location in my nginx proxy (with proxy_pass).
When I connect to panels via opds now, everything works fine except the series covers don’t load anymore… is this a panels issue or could this be an error with komga because I host it in a subdirectory?
edit: when I test the rest api with swagger and execute the get series thumbnail, I get the correct thumbnail image. So I suspect that panels is calling the wrong url (probably always the root url without the „/komga“ subdirectory)
I’m happy to debug this remotely if you can provide a testing account. Send me a DM and I can look into it. Feel free to send me screenshots to make sure I follow the same steps to reproduce the issue.
Thanks for the testing account. I was able to reproduce the issue and fix it.
The problem was that Panels wasn’t handling that subdirectory correctly. We fixed that for images defined by the OPDS feed, but technically, OPDS does not support images in Collections/Folders.
We wrote an ad-hoc implementation for Komga to use their API to fetch the folder image, and that API implementation didn’t support subdirectories.
I just fixed it and it will be included in the next release. I’d recommend you join our #beta channel Discord Server, and install the next Testflight to make sure it’s working for you.
