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you try utorrent? i much prefer it to transmission. plus you can assign labels, which i think is equivalent to what you are referring to. also how are you installing these apps? are you using unmenu, plg, or something else?

1) here the spindown function from unmenu. shouldnt be too hard to wrap that in a bash script. there might already be something easier but i dont know. function SpinUp( disk, cmd, f) { # Spin Up drives # loop through the drives spinning them up by using the spinup command if available or # by reading a single "random" block from each /dev/md* device in turn if not. srand() # important to get random numbers when unmenu is re-started. for ( i =0; i<numdisks; i++ ) { #print disk_name[i] ORS if ( disk_name[i] == disk || disk == "All Disks" ) { if ( has_spinup == "true" ) { cmd="/root/mdcmd spinup " i " >/dev/null 2>&1" } else { # calculate a random block between 1 and the max blocks on the device skip_blocks = 1 + int( rand() * disk_size[i] ); #cmd="dd if=/dev/" disk_device[i] " of=/dev/null count=1 bs=1k skip=" skip_blocks " >/dev/null 2>&1" cmd="dd if=/dev/" disk_name[i] " of=/dev/null count=1 bs=1k skip=" skip_blocks " >/dev/null 2>&1" } #print cmd ORS system(cmd); } } } 2) windows command line? no. but check the wiki for the powerdown script and you can easily do if from a terminal.

i havent had any issue. i was thinking of adding a cache drive but now im thinking against it. i dont see any real benefit for me.

i had a similar issue with something else and it might apply here, might not. is transmission running when you make those changes? if so they might not be taking effect because the file is locked or immediately being over written.

I know there is a utorrent one. You can set it up with an RSS feed and automatically download.

if you go to the menu there should be a scheduler option. you can have it run terminal commands at a specific time. i dont remember the actual command for wol off the top of my head but i think it was just "wakeonlan" followed by the mac address of the server. so something like this: wakeonlan de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe of course you need to make sure your server is set up for WOL in the bios and everything. if you arent familiar with wake-on-lan let me know if you have any questions.

I have no issues with iTunes at all. Maybe that's because I use a Mac. I keep my music library on my main Mac and then use rsync to sync my library with my server and use the SimpleFeatures iTunes Server plugin so my library shows up as a shared source in iTunes on the rest of my computers and streams the music from the server. I do one better and run iTunes from the share that the iTunes Server plugin runs from. However, I only do that because I find holding 350Gb of music on an SSD a waste Haha. Figure out a way to get the server to work over the Internet and I would too! subsonic might work

ive never used it before so i might be wrong but i think thats what subsonic does. there is even a plugin for unraid there are dozens. i dont know why people use itunes and complain there arent any alternatives.

songbird seems easier to me. not that i use it, or itunes. i dont sync media to anything. but itunes is an awful, awful program.

This is my first script in python and thought it might be useful to others as well. I chose python since it is already installed with SABnzbd. Please let me know if you find this useful, have any tips, bugs, etc. I've been using it for a few weeks with no issues so far. The only decent broadband in my town is capped at 50GB which is not a lot if you download much. However my ISP does not count bandwidth from 12AM to 8AM. I frequently use SABnzbd on my unraid box to download. I have tomato firmware on my router and have it set up to wake up my unraid box at midnight. After that this script takes over: 1. I used the go script instead of a cronjob because some servers take longer than others to start. If the hour is 12:XXAM it continues, else it quits. That way it won't interfere with daily use and if the server turns on at 12:00 but isn't completely ready until 12:01 or 12:04 or even 12:59, it will still run the script. I could have done this with a cronjob but this just seemed better to me. 2. Waits for 2 minutes to load files from the watch folder or for files to be passed to it from other programs like Sickbeard. 3. Starts a loop. If it is 8:00AM it shutsdown (make sure powerdown script is installed). 4. If it is not 8:00AM then it checks if the queue is empty and the history is empty (in other words, idle). 5. If SABnzbd isn't downloading anything and the history isn't moving, extracting, reapairing, etc, then it shuts down. I know you can tell SABnzbd to shutdown while the history is still processing and it will just wait for it to finish but I wrote in a check anyway. In short, once the script runs and it is indeed midnight it starts a loop that continually (well every 10 seconds) checks to see if SABnzbd is idle or if it is 8AM yet. It will safely shutdown unraid if either of those conditions are met, provided you have the powerdown script installed. Add this file to the root of your flash, make SURE you have the powerdown script installed, and add this line to your go script: python /boot/sabnzbd_powerdown.py You will also have to change lines 43 and 48 of this script to the proper URL and api key of your setup of SABnzbd. I also have SABnzbd set to start paused and unpause at midnight. sabnzbd_shutdown.zip

ah. makes sense. thanks.

i havent used the dropbox plugin for unraid. i really only want it to sync one folder. is that possible?

so ive got sabnzbd on my unraid and a watch folder setup and its working great. however, sometimes i find something i want to download but its a big pain to get my server turned on just to send that tiny file and then shut it down. has anyone successfully gotten dropbox on unraid to work as a watch folder in sabnzbd?

i wasnt sure where the best place to ask was but i will keep that in mind. really loving your plugins. thanks for the help.

so im using the sickbeard plugin. sickbeard updates the list of shows at 3am and, as far as i can tell, there is no way to change that. a force update is necessary if your pc isnt on at that time. using the unraid plugin though, unraid automatically starts sickbeard when unraid starts. is there a way to have the plugin do a force update (sickbeard.py --forceupdate)when it starts?

the topic has been covered but i had a question about it. would you be unable to use a paid license of unraid in a vm since it is tied to the GUID of the flash device?

realized i made a typo. i doubt its a partitioning problem because the drive doesn't even show up in the list of devices in the bios.

so i have a ga-ma790ftx-ud5p motherboard. i boot unraid from it just fine with an old 2gb UFD. recently i was experimenting with another UFD but it wont boot from it. other machines boot from it just fine. after some headaches, i realized it wasnt any sort of partitioning problem. for whatever reason, that flash drive doesnt even show up in the bios. i have another identical UFD and sam thing with that one. any idea why the bios would register one flash drive but not others?

yea, youll need it for a seagate

did you try putting "Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1 USB" into ebay. theres a ton there. not sure if they are the ones your looking for though.

i got mu hopes up with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220493&cm_mmc=BF2011_listing-_-68-_-N82E16820220493&nm_mc=BF2011_listing until i realized it has a MIR.

thanks. it should be but i wanted a little buffer room. i'll keep it in mind if i cant find anything else.

i know this is a stretch but i figured since black friday is upon us now would be a good time to look. im looking to buy a bunch of 8gb flash drives for a project but would like to get them for around $5 each. sd cards would also be acceptable if they are relatively fast and the price is right. i saw some on amazon for around $2-$3 but with $6 shipping. unfortunately there is no way to combine shipping. if anyone sees and deals, please let me know. thanks.

wow. i heard about the price increase and didnt know what everyone was talking about because they all were still cheap when i checked but i just checked and... wow. glad i got a bunch of spares. i see some stores on ebay still have them at their regular prices. ive bought from there without issue. and i know what you mean about seagate. from the sound of it, we must have had a similar experience.

i dont have a cache drive though.