Finally got around to trying what @[email protected] recommended me to troubleshoot my scanner sending to FTP. And I got it working! Thanks chaospatterns!

Then you should be able to do like I said and it might solve whatever is happening. I also have both homepage and paperless in the same docker-compose file. If you set the container name for each container then you can just reference that in homepage widgets. For example here is my homepage and paperless:

homepage:
    image: ghcr.io/gethomepage/homepage:latest
    container_name: homepage
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker/homepage:/app/config
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro # (optional) For docker integrations)

  paperless:
    image: ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:latest
    container_name: paperless
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - paperless-redis
      - postgres
    networks:
      - proxy
    user: "1000"
    environment:
      - USERMAP_UID=1000
      - USERMAP_GID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
      - PAPERLESS_REDIS=redis://paperless-redis:6379
      - PAPERLESS_TIKA_ENABLED=1
      - PAPERLESS_TIKA_GOTENBERG_ENDPOINT=http://gotenberg:3000/
      - PAPERLESS_TIKA_ENDPOINT=http://tika:9998/
      - PAPERLESS_DBENGINE=postgresql
      - PAPERLESS_DBHOST=postgres
      - PAPERLESS_DBNAME=paperless
      - PAPERLESS_DBUSER=paperless
      - PAPERLESS_DBPASS=password
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker/paperless/data:/usr/src/paperless/data
      - /opt/docker/paperless/export:/usr/src/paperless/export
      - /opt/docker/paperless/consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume
      - /mnt/paperless:/usr/src/paperless/media

so both have conatiner_name set to the same string as the service name. And in my homepage widgets I just use the container name in the URL, example:

    - Paperless:
        icon: paperless-ngx
        href: https://paperless.local.tld/
        widget:
            type: paperlessngx
            url: http://paperless:8000/
            username: username
            password: password

This only works if they are in the same docker network. If you don’t explicitly set the network for the containers and they are in the same compose file then they should be in the same network.

Where is paperless in relation to homepage? For me i have both of them in the same docker host and same docker network on that host and with that i only need to set the paperless container name in the widget. If paperless is on another machine make sure there is no firewall blocking the port number.

The scanner also supports sending to email. I will try that before setting up a windows VM. I was just tubing i would use USB for the initial import of my file cabinet.

That’s a good idea. I didn’t even think to do that. Thanks!

Set up paperless-ngx and cannot get my scanner to send a scan to a FTP server. It supposedly supports sending to FTP but doesn’t have much documentation for it. I’ve tried FTPS, SFTP, and unsecured FTP. Both secure types just cause it to error out. But with unsecured the scanner just freezes then reboots. Really annoying me. I’m about to give up and just scan to s USB thumb drive then copy the scans to the server.

I came here to basically say this. It’s especially bad when you aren’t even sure if you want to keep the service and are just testing it out. If I already have to go through a huge setup/troubleshooting process just to test the app, then I’m not feeling very good about it.

Oh I see. When I read your first comment I understood ‘functional’ to mean more like “it works but not very well”. I did see in the github issues that they are working on SSO and Android Auto so when that comes I’ll give it a try.

It seems to be missing SSO login support and Android Auto. The official app does so I feel like that makes it more functional than Lissen. At least for me.

Is this better in some way than the one developed by the audiobookshelf team?