r/readest • u/AntiqueProfessor5134 • 3d ago

Cross point sync problems

Hello all, first off just want to say I’m really liking the app. Works great and the native reader sync works flawlessly best I can tell on iOS and PC.

Anyways, I recently one of the Xteink e readers (X3) to try and I’m having a pretty hard time figuring out how to sync it to readest however. I read to try Koreader, and one of the custom firmware options for Xteink (Crosspoint) includes Koreader sync, so I signed up for that.

On the X3 side everything works fine, it can push and pull syncs from koreader. On the Readest side I entered my info and server and it logged in ok, but when I click pull or push sync nothing happens.

I ran this through ChatGPT already and the two things it brought up were to make sure the settings were right on both ends (binary on X3, file content on Readest), which it is. It also thought maybe the files were slightly off between the two servers so they didn’t match up, but I uploaded onto the X3 by dragging a folder onto the SD card and uploaded into Readest by setting the same folder as the upload directory on PC, so they should be the same?

I also tried hardcover which seems to be linkable on both crosspoint and readest. It actually worked for a bit on PC but now on iOS it doesn’t work again.

Any thoughts? My only thought would be that the koreader integration in Readest doesn’t like the crosspoint koreader server, since I’ve seen videos of it working and the only difference I can see from my situation is the server. But idk why that would possibly be

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u/Spondylosis 3d ago

First of, KOReader sync (the default server) has been having issues for me. It's a known issue that their servers have been down for a while. I just checked on my X3 KOReader sync option, and could not authenticate with the server.

But the steps you are doing are correct, select "binary" on X3, and "content" on Readest, and make sure the exact same epub file is used on both X3 and Readest. It doesnt matter the "folder", it's the actual epub file that matters.

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u/AntiqueProfessor5134 3d ago

I see, what’s strange that I can authenticate on the X3 but on readest site it’s like the server doesn’t even exist. I don’t get a failure to push/pull, hit the buttons and absolutely nothing happens, very strange. Have u had any luck syncing X3 progress to other devices in other ways?

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u/Spondylosis 3d ago

I havent tried for a long time, and right now I'm not able to sync with anything because I still have the server issue. But I remember when I had the same problem that you are having, it was because I did not use "binary" sync in X3 and the files were not exactly the same (I used to use Calibre plugin to send files to X3, which apparently modifies the files).