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The Gunslinger
Jul 24, 2004

Do not forget the face of your father.
Fun Shoe

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.

As for the things not showing up correctly in "Latest", Frodo shows "Latest" as file date, not date added to XBMC. If you want to change that, see here

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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8-bit Miniboss
May 24, 2005

CORPO COPS CAME FOR MY :filez:
An alternative for now until it's fixed is to use the XBMC auto update library addon.

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret
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.

A Proper Uppercut
Sep 30, 2008

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?

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

Whiteycar posted:

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.
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.
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.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

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.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Whiteycar posted:

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.

SSDs and a motherboard with a good i/o bus

Lusername
Sep 22, 2005
The truth is just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
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.)

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

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.
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.

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.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
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.

tlc
Jan 6, 2005

dont send help

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.

Also, run Quickpar on those failed downloads, it will properly repair them if needed.
Been wondering why for the last few weeks every other download needed all the goddamn rar files correctly renamed before they would repair / extract...

mynnna
Jan 10, 2004

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?

Shy
Mar 20, 2010

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.

Sub Rosa
Jun 9, 2010




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?
Actually I've often noticed a benefit in doing so as sometimes something is missing from one and present on another. At one point I actually thought the provider was strategically removing parts from DMCAed files so that while enough was removed to make it impossible to get the file from either, you could still get it from both. Didn't last though.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
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.

serebralassazin
Feb 20, 2004
I wish I had something clever to say.
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.

TheOtherContraGuy
Jul 4, 2007

brave skeleton sacrifice
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.

EC
Jul 10, 2001

The Legend

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.

Sub Rosa
Jun 9, 2010




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.

Tommy 2.0
Apr 26, 2008

My fabulous CoX shall live forever!
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?

Shy
Mar 20, 2010

Tommy 2.0 posted:

I suspect it has to do with my usenet, Astranews?

Nah, Astraweb is all right.

Tommy 2.0
Apr 26, 2008

My fabulous CoX shall live forever!

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.

EC
Jul 10, 2001

The Legend

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.

Tommy 2.0
Apr 26, 2008

My fabulous CoX shall live forever!

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.

FISHMANPET
Mar 3, 2007

Sweet 'N Sour
Can't
Melt
Steel Beams
Also, in exactly what way is the download failing? Missing blocks? Outside of retention? Not enough repair blocks?

TheOtherContraGuy
Jul 4, 2007

brave skeleton sacrifice

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

Tommy 2.0
Apr 26, 2008

My fabulous CoX shall live forever!

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."

EC
Jul 10, 2001

The Legend

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.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

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.

Tommy 2.0
Apr 26, 2008

My fabulous CoX shall live forever!

Thermopyle posted:

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.

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.

FISHMANPET
Mar 3, 2007

Sweet 'N Sour
Can't
Melt
Steel Beams
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.

Tommy 2.0
Apr 26, 2008

My fabulous CoX shall live forever!

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.

Sub Rosa
Jun 9, 2010




TheOtherContraGuy posted:

Tweaknews seems incredibly sketchy.
Not sure why you think so. They have a free trial 10GB/10 days. If you go the 10 days without buying a plan apparently they send you a coupon or something but I didn't wait that long.

EconOutlines
Jul 3, 2004

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.

ClassH
Mar 18, 2008

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?

EconOutlines
Jul 3, 2004

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.

ClassH
Mar 18, 2008

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.

Sunblood
Mar 12, 2006

I'm a freakin' blur here!

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.

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

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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gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
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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