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monkeybounce posted:Sickbeard seems to have at some point in one of the more recent updates broken their use of the JSON API in XBMC. I can't get updates/notifications to work at all. Yeah I get errors in Sickbeard about XBMC but oddly enough the notifications still show up, the library update just doesn't work.
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# ? Apr 19, 2013 18:08 |
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An alternative for now until it's fixed is to use the XBMC auto update library addon.
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# ? Apr 19, 2013 18:28 |
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Thinking of building a media PC that will also serve as an always on Sickbeard/usenet box. I notice on my desktop there is a significant amount of hitching or slowdown when files are being repaired/verified. Is there a way to cut down on this? More ram? more processor speed? SSDs? Just don't want it to randomly interfere with my viewing.
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# ? Apr 19, 2013 19:36 |
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lilcasino posted:Anyone having issues registering at nzb.su? I keep getting an error message Your username must be longer than three characters. This is from like 4 months ago, but I'm having this same issue. Anyone have any ideas?
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# ? Apr 19, 2013 23:37 |
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Whiteycar posted:Thinking of building a media PC that will also serve as an always on Sickbeard/usenet box. XBMC also seems to have alwaysforcebuffer and freememorycachepercent settings, which should help. And yes, go big on RAM. 8GB is still cheap enough that you might as well not go with less.
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 02:02 |
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I thought I was on bleeding edge Sickbeard, but actually I was about 30 days behind. Updating to the latest SB from git fixed my XBMC update issues. There was this commit which reverted a hack they had to do to circumvent a bug in XBMC 12.0 that was fixed in 12.1. The fix in 12.1 made the hack SB was doing not work, so that commit reverted to a working update method.
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 03:28 |
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Whiteycar posted:Thinking of building a media PC that will also serve as an always on Sickbeard/usenet box. SSDs and a motherboard with a good i/o bus
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 04:54 |
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Isn't it possible to lower the priority of the repairing/verifying processes to avoid any slowdown? (I think I remember someone mentioning it many months ago.)
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 05:41 |
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Hogburto posted:Will this media PC be running OpenELEC? That is based on a linux distro, so I might expect it to come with IONice and that you could use these options in SABnzbd to make par2 and unrar take a back seat on disk usage when you're doing other stuff. Googling seems to confirm this is only a linux solution. Was planning on running it on Windows and maybe run some steam games through it but I may have to reevaluate.
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 06:06 |
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Use 2 drives, then. Smaller, fast SSD to boot from and download to, high-capacity spindle-based drive for your usenet software to move finished files to after repair & unpack on the SSD.
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 06:52 |
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FISHMANPET posted:Are you running the latest version? There seem to be a few downloads floating around where the filenames of the rar files don't match what the par2 file say they should be. I was running .7.3 and it would bomb out on those, and I think one of the very recent updates fixed it to detect that condition.
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# ? Apr 20, 2013 15:55 |
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Hopefully the last 'dumb usenet newbie' question - can I connect to and use both the US and EU servers if my provider of choice has them? If so, is there actually any benefit to doing so?
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 04:00 |
Torael_7 posted:Hopefully the last 'dumb usenet newbie' question - can I connect to and use both the US and EU servers if my provider of choice has them? If so, is there actually any benefit to doing so? You can. I did that on Astraweb, Giganews and Blocknews, without noticeable benefits. Articles are usually available on both servers, or on neither.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 04:10 |
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Torael_7 posted:Hopefully the last 'dumb usenet newbie' question - can I connect to and use both the US and EU servers if my provider of choice has them? If so, is there actually any benefit to doing so?
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 04:16 |
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A few times (over a span of years) I've switched off the US server and enabled the EU server for my primary when the US server was just going slow for some reason.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 04:33 |
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I did this a while ago and left it. It fares better than the US one on Sundays which typically is a slow speed night.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 04:50 |
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Hey, I'm noticing a lot of incompletes on new files using supernews with a blocknews account as a backup. Is there anything I can do about this or is how things are now.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 18:13 |
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TheOtherContraGuy posted:Hey, I'm noticing a lot of incompletes on new files using supernews with a blocknews account as a backup. Is there anything I can do about this or is how things are now. Are you using the latest version of SAB? There are more incompletes out there than there used to be, but the new version cut down a lot of the failed downloads I was getting.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 19:25 |
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TheOtherContraGuy posted:Hey, I'm noticing a lot of incompletes on new files using supernews with a blocknews account as a backup. Is there anything I can do about this or is how things are now. Try adding a block account from TweakNews.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 20:12 |
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For whatever reason, even with updated Couchpotato/SAB nothing I'm pulling seems to be completing, no matter how recent or whatever machine I use. I suspect it has to do with my usenet, Astranews?
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:26 |
Tommy 2.0 posted:I suspect it has to do with my usenet, Astranews? Nah, Astraweb is all right.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:29 |
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Shy posted:Nah, Astraweb is all right. OK, so what other things could possibly be doing this? My downloads end in failures, where they weren't a week ago, and are going on an endless loop of trying different releases.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:34 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:OK, so what other things could possibly be doing this? My downloads end in failures, where they weren't a week ago, and are going on an endless loop of trying different releases. Have you tried manually verifying and extracting? You could try redownloading something that you know worked the first time, and see what happens. Bad RAM can be responsible for that kind of behavior as well.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:43 |
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EC posted:Have you tried manually verifying and extracting? You could try redownloading something that you know worked the first time, and see what happens. Bad RAM can be responsible for that kind of behavior as well. Well this has been an issue for the past few weeks on multiple machines. I'm 99% confident hardware isn't an issue.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:46 |
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Also, in exactly what way is the download failing? Missing blocks? Outside of retention? Not enough repair blocks?
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:51 |
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EC posted:Are you using the latest version of SAB? There are more incompletes out there than there used to be, but the new version cut down a lot of the failed downloads I was getting. Sub Rosa posted:Try adding a block account from TweakNews. Thanks. I'll do both. Edit: Tweaknews seems incredibly sketchy. TheOtherContraGuy fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Apr 22, 2013 |
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FISHMANPET posted:Also, in exactly what way is the download failing? Missing blocks? Outside of retention? Not enough repair blocks? Maybe because I haven't been using usenet that long, but it is hard for me to tell. I am looking at the "warnings" on SABnzbd and I can't tell if it is just a general DL error, unpacking error, or missing blocks. They just say "Erro: Saving XXXXX failed."
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:58 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:Maybe because I haven't been using usenet that long, but it is hard for me to tell. I am looking at the "warnings" on SABnzbd and I can't tell if it is just a general DL error, unpacking error, or missing blocks. They just say "Erro: Saving XXXXX failed." In the history, you should see "downloading failed: <something>" and that should tell you what the issue was. Alternatively, if SAB is having issues saving file, it could be a HDD issue. Or the file names are too long to be saved.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 23:01 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:Maybe because I haven't been using usenet that long, but it is hard for me to tell. I am looking at the "warnings" on SABnzbd and I can't tell if it is just a general DL error, unpacking error, or missing blocks. They just say "Erro: Saving XXXXX failed." When a download fails because of usenet being usenet it will say that the repair failed or something. The error message you've got there sounds like the drive sabnzbd is using is full or maybe some permissions issue. Something local to your system.
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# ? Apr 22, 2013 23:10 |
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Thermopyle posted:When a download fails because of usenet being usenet it will say that the repair failed or something. OK I'll have to do some digging around, cause my HDs aren't even halfway filled and it is an error happening on three of my machines.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 01:05 |
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The errors you get in the upper left corner for the most part don't really matter, what's important is the bottom half of the interface, that's where finished downloads life. If they have a red error message, they've failed, otherwise they're successful.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 01:10 |
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FISHMANPET posted:The errors you get in the upper left corner for the most part don't really matter, what's important is the bottom half of the interface, that's where finished downloads life. If they have a red error message, they've failed, otherwise they're successful. This is the part that has REALLY confused me. I've seen failed downloads before pop up red all the time in SAB, but these downloads lately? Nothing. They don't show up down there as complete OR failed. The file that was being downloaded in my incomplete just gets deleted and nothing goes to my completed folder. I haven't a clue what is going on.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 01:12 |
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TheOtherContraGuy posted:Tweaknews seems incredibly sketchy.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 01:21 |
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They're the best provider I've had so far. I have unlimited accounts with both them and Astra. Even popular stuff works a week+ after indexing with both of them going.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 01:40 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:This is the part that has REALLY confused me. I've seen failed downloads before pop up red all the time in SAB, but these downloads lately? Nothing. They don't show up down there as complete OR failed. The file that was being downloaded in my incomplete just gets deleted and nothing goes to my completed folder. I haven't a clue what is going on. Are your complete and incomplete set to the same drive or a share?
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 03:03 |
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ClassH posted:Are your complete and incomplete set to the same drive or a share? That shouldn't make any difference. My incomplete is an SSD and complete is on the NAS. No issues for the most part.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 03:49 |
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Roving Reporter posted:That shouldn't make any difference. My incomplete is an SSD and complete is on the NAS. No issues for the most part. It could make a difference if the only common thing across all his installs is pushing it to the same share.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 13:42 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:This is the part that has REALLY confused me. I've seen failed downloads before pop up red all the time in SAB, but these downloads lately? Nothing. They don't show up down there as complete OR failed. The file that was being downloaded in my incomplete just gets deleted and nothing goes to my completed folder. I haven't a clue what is going on. Is the filename really loving huge? Windows can't save a file if the full path, including D:\Folder\whatever, is more than a certain number of characters. 260 if I remember correctly.
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# ? Apr 23, 2013 15:46 |
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Sunblood posted:Is the filename really loving huge? Windows can't save a file if the full path, including D:\Folder\whatever, is more than a certain number of characters. 260 if I remember correctly. Technically Windows can have paths up to 32767 characters long when using the the Unicode file functions, but a lot of software won't work with these really long paths, like explorer.exe.
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He'd probably like the solution just as much as the trivia if we have one in mind. On the config > Special page (probably http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/config/special/ ): Set folder_max_length to a value below 128 on Windows. 64 Recommended (as "safe") on the wiki. Although I haven't experienced that problem and can't say whether or not this is a likely fix. If I recall (this thread), Linux users shouldn't bother changing the default. gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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