markus101

I had no issues running the SVN versions or any of the latest SAB 0.5 releases - pretty sure all you need on top of the dependencies listed previously is sqlite3 - It'll will complain on first start which version it requires. Should be able to grab it from: http://packages.slackware.it/ -Markus

I believe you can do this by settign the RSS feed to a specific Category and then having that RSS feed only download the specific show you want to go there I can't remember offhand if that is supported in SAB 0.4.x, but it is for sure in the latest alpha's of 0.5.x. It's not the cleanest solution, but it's all i can think of at the moment, and see no issues with it working that way. -Markus

No worries, if you're running MR it will likely stop your drive from spinning down as well (unless you log to the flash drive or to the default log dir, which is on the RAM disk that is wiped on every reboot. The author for MR has been really helpful on the SAB forums as well, the initial setup can be a little confusing, but after that (and setting up a cron job it does the work for you). -Markus

I never had a problem with disk not spinning down... where are you putting the SAB install files (python files) and where is the temp download folder located? I' using an old 40GB drive as I don't have a cache drive, which is where i had all the downloads/logs/SAB cache and the history DB [sAB 0.5a]), that drive never spun down, but it also had a swap file and every 15 minutes it would spin up to log the downloads available using Media Rover. Media Rover uses Python as well, so no other dependencies are required, the post is on the SABnzbd forums here: http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=2262.0 -Markus

Yes those 1.5TB drives are something fierce, if you really have a need for speed this is the next step to make it out perform a Raptor (except in random seeks). http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ - *NOTE* I've never done this, just seems like an interesting idea. It does seem like overkill at present time (in my mind at least) to have a 1.5TB drive as the cache drive, but it does provide the ability to upgrade a drive as you mentioned as well as replace an existing drive should you run into issues. -Markus

My unRAID server with 4 drives (1 WD Black, 1 WD Green, 1 Seagate (all 1TB), plus one OLD 40GB IDE) runs a bit louder than my desktop, but I attribute that to the junk 80mm fans it has. The case is at least 6 years old, fans are still kicking, but I'm waiting for them to start dying so I can sell myself on a new case, likely the CM 590. I recently picked up the same 4-in-3 dock that the CM 590 has and the fan is almost dead quiet - but the LED is Bright... I ended up taping them off with duct tape until I feel the need to swap if for a Scythe. So typical desktop computer is probably accurate, unless your running Panaflows in there. -Markus

I'm running 0.5 alpha 5 at the moment (you need to add in a mysql package). Haven't noticed any stuttering or slow down while unzipping, over the past few months of use, streaming xvid's to my 360 mostly. AMD 3800+ x2 with 2GB of RAM (Even with 1GB RAM + 1GB SWAP I never noticed any issues). -Markus

I had some issues with running out of RAM with only 1GB, but that was running SABnzbd/Twonky and some scripts that converted 2 AVI movies into 1. I believe Joe L. uses a solid 512MB in his original server, so you should be fine with 1GB should you choose to go that route, but if you intend on making your server do more work in the future you will probably benefit from the increase in RAM, I know mine did. Just my 2 cents from my experience, I know SAB is pretty heavy, especially when downloading compared to just SAMBA serving up files. -Markus

This looks awesome, It's pretty simple to add new extensions as well, I "made" one for SABnzbd and another for Twonky so its all on a single page. I prefer to have Bubba's new Custom UI as the main page, so I had the adapt and make an extension for the stock Unraid interface, but that's just personal preference. I have one suggestion though, any chance of dropping the frames and going for a menu driven UI? I'm not a fan of frames and was recently playing around with the FreeNAS UI, which looks great, although unRAID doesn't have nearly as many included addons as stock, the ability to extend it would be great (if thats possible, similar to how the extensions portion works in the current unRAID-Web). One question as well, how do you change the order of the Extensions in the side bar? Thanks again for the great work, the community for unRAID is outstanding, one of the reasons I'm such a fan, well that and the product is amazing. Markus

Weird, I haven't seen that issue, to confirm you're using Python version 2.5.2? You can check by running the following: python -V I only remember having to add sqlite3 and then I had no further issues. -Markus

@Romir - Awesome, I was just looking sat SABnzbd saw that error when I was testing something. It'll be nice to silence that error. @btlupin - I used this package: sqlite3-3.6.4-i486-1kjz.tgz I'm using this package: http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=12337 Hope this helps. -Markus

Very good points, I setup a drive outside of the array which seems to work quite well (Going to get a real license soon I hope = a cache drive). I had my article cache set to 200M before...if you don't have at least 1.5GB RAM, do not set it that high. I was having issues with SAB shutting down, turns out unRAID was killing python to save itself. Ended up adding a SWAP file to my out-of-array drive and it seems better now (at least no issues so far). Set SAB to article cache of 100MB until I get more RAM. -Markus

No it hadn't been mentioned, lead me to remember that you will also want to move the cache folder and admin folder off of the flash. The admin folder is only for version 0.5+ as it contains the sqlite db that SAB uses to hold the History. This gets written to after every download and grows, not as bad as the logs, but it should be moved, teh cache dir keeps the history (0.4.x) and the queue info. I believe the above mentioned folders can be changed via the WebUI with the exception of the admin folder, you have to look in the sabnzbd.ini file, for the following line: admin_dir = admin and then change it to a directory of your choice (off of the flash). -Markus

I've been running the trunk version of SABnzbd (Will be version 0.5 one day), it works flawlessly as well. The only thing you need to add to the previous install is SQLite3 (they now have the history in a DB instead of some weird file). Enjoy, Markus

No problem. Trial and error is the name of the game when you're new to Linux and trying to get something working. I've made many mistakes getting this setup for the first time on Linux. Again glad its working and happy downloading. -Markus

No Problem - glad you got it sorted out. We all end up asking a question or two that we solve on our own, out of curiosity, what was the issue with the par2 utility? -Markus

For teh issue with Firefox, it looks like everything is working you just have to go to the SABnzbd directory: http://tower:5191/sabnzbd Nnot sure about the other error, looks like a permission issue - other than that I'm not sure. Hope this helps somewhat. -Markus

Thanks BJP, that works, I missed something when I was working on it earlier, but got it sorted now. (copy/paste + modify as needed = win). EDIT: Spelling:\ Thanks, Markus

Hi, I have a drive set up that is out of the unRAID Array. I've mapped it to /mnt/staging, the device is /dev/hda and the partition is /dev/hda1. I can use the drive through telnet (copy, move, delete files) and I currently use it as my temp Download drive for SABnzbd. I'd like to be able to access it via Windows through an SMB share. I have no issues accessing any of the other shares (in the unRAID array) through Windows, but cannot seem to get the Windows machine to connect to the share for the staging drive. Windows Vista 64-bit unRAID 4.4 staging drive is /mnt/staging shared through unMenu as hda1 Within Windows I can see the share, but on connecting I get an error message, I've tried rebooting Windows after the share was setup, with no change. Rebooting unRAID has been done, but obviously the share is wiped out on reboot (the drive is re-mounted via the GO script on reboot without issue). Any suggestions would be great. I've tried manually edit the smb.conf file manually, to no avail. Error message is here(because the forum is full for uploading new files ): http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=smberrorov3.jpg Thanks in Advance, Markus

I was looking at that before I started with unRAID, I'd love to rock hellaVCR, but getting PHP going turns me off on the idea of running it on unRAID, although the step-by-step instructions posted on this form make it sound not too bad. I like the RSS feed in SAB, but they do download a lot of extra junk sometimes, its more a pain managing it than the waste of bandwidth...

Yeah, I agree. I actually got the Dev to add the initial Newsgroup Searches (when it wasn't configurable), because the program is awesome, but Torrents were too slow for my liking. He's pretty active in the forums there, although I'm not sure how easy it would be for him to integrate, but it might be worth asking. I'm still using Newzbin RSS feeds and they seem to do a pretty good job - although I get lots of dupes and random shows that contain the same name:( I'll take a look at this other one, but I stopped using tvnzb because I found it slower than nzbs.org or Newzbin.

Sub-folders for every movie, yuck. I guess I'm picky (and a bit lazy with the remote), despite the script working it still bugs me that it could be better, guess I should learn some BASH scripting and fix it... Gone are the days of AutoHotKey for every script...

Nothing is worse than looking for a movie that the releaser decided to start with his tag and make the movie into an acronym and why manually rename when the computer will do it for you (and join those pesky two-cd AVI's). Here is the code I'm using, which will also handle HD-WMV for those crippled XBox users, the code could be re-worked as currently if you move a WMV file the else statement still tries to run and throws an error. In BASH can you have multiple if statements in series before an else statement? ie. If a=1 then echo Hello World, if b=4 then echo Goodbye World, else deltree *.* (not what you want to, but you get the point). #! /bin/bash set -u CATEGORY_NAME=`echo $1 | awk -F [/] '{print $(NF-1)}'` echo $2 >> /var/log/sab_proc.log echo "Category: $CATEGORY_NAME" >> /var/log/sab_proc.log FOLDER_PATH="$1" FOLDER_NAME=`echo $FOLDER_PATH | awk -F [/] '{print $NF}'` echo "Folder Path: $FOLDER_PATH" >> /var/log/sab_proc.log cd "$FOLDER_PATH" #################### # Movie Processing # #################### if [ $CATEGORY_NAME = "Movies" ] then # Where do you want to put the movies that this script processes? MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY="/mnt/user/Movies" MOVIE_NAME=`echo $FOLDER_NAME | sed 's/ (.*)//g'` echo "Movie Name: $MOVIE_NAME" >> /var/log/sab_proc.log if [ `find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.wmv' | wc -l` -eq 1 ] then FILEZ[1]="$FOLDER_PATH`find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.wmv' | sed 's/^\.//'`" #Move the wmv to the folder mv "${FILEZ[1]}" "$MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/_HD/$MOVIE_NAME.wmv" echo "$MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/_HD/$MOVIE_NAME.wmv" >> /var/log/sab_proc.log rm -r "$FOLDER_PATH" fi if [ `find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.avi' | wc -l` -eq 2 ] then FILEZ[1]="$FOLDER_PATH`find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.avi' | sort | sed -n '1p' | sed 's/^\.//'`" FILEZ[2]="$FOLDER_PATH`find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.avi' | sort | sed -n '2p' | sed 's/^\.//'`" echo "Joining Files..." >> /var/log/sab_proc.log mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o "$FOLDER_PATH/$MOVIE_NAME".avi "${FILEZ[1]}" "${FILEZ[2]}" #Get the path for the avi FILEZ[1]="$FOLDER_PATH`find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.avi' | sed 's/^\.//'`" echo "Moving Files..." >> /var/log/sab_proc.log #Move the avi to the folder mv "$FOLDER_PATH/$MOVIE_NAME".avi "$MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/$MOVIE_NAME.avi" echo "$MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/$MOVIE_NAME.avi" >> /var/log/sab_proc.log rm -r "$FOLDER_PATH" echo "Removing Folder: $FOLDER_NAME..." >> /var/log/sab_proc.log #* growlnotify -m "Download Complete: $MOVIE_NAME" -i "avi" else #Get the path for the avi FILEZ[1]="$FOLDER_PATH`find . -size +629145600c -regex '.*/.*\.avi' | sed 's/^\.//'`" echo "Moving Files..." >> /var/log/sab_proc.log mv "${FILEZ[1]}" "$MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/$MOVIE_NAME.avi" echo "$MOVIE_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/$MOVIE_NAME.avi" >> /var/log/sab_proc.log rm -r "$FOLDER_PATH" fi fi

Another script of interest is: http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=61.15 - Linux Script http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=67.0 - Windows Script It will rename files and combine multiple AVI movies into a single AVI, then move it and delete the split versions, the TV rename part isn't what I need as I use tvrename to handle the renaming (http://www.tvrename.com). With some modification it should be pretty easy to use this without using Newzbin and have it run against movies only.

Thanks NAS, added to the wiki.