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MasterColin: Aug 4, 2006

Anyone having issues with nzb.su api?

The site says http//api.nzb.su/
the image shows 'https'

I keep getting: Error loading nzb.su URL: http://api.nzb.su/api?apikey=REMOVED

Anyone else having this issue?

Maybe i just need dognzb

# ? Feb 24, 2014 03:32

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MasterColin posted:

Anyone having issues with nzb.su api?

The site says http//api.nzb.su/
the image shows 'https'

I keep getting: Error loading nzb.su URL: http://api.nzb.su/api?apikey=REMOVED

Anyone else having this issue?

Maybe i just need dognzb

I've been having the same problem.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 03:48

StainlessBanner: Dec 23, 2006; Maybe you shouldn't kiss and tell

Has supernews been slow for anyone else this weekend? My blocknews account has been hitting 4 Mb/s+ while my supernews account has been 1 Mb/s and under.

Edit: I see a few pages back from January that others have been having the same issue during peak hours. I suppose that explains it.

StainlessBanner fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Feb 24, 2014

# ? Feb 24, 2014 05:03

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

MasterColin posted:

Anyone having issues with nzb.su api?

The site says http//api.nzb.su/
the image shows 'https'

I keep getting: Error loading nzb.su URL: http://api.nzb.su/api?apikey=REMOVED

Anyone else having this issue?

Maybe i just need dognzb

They moved to different servers recently. After that I've been getting errors on and off. It's been better in recently days.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 05:13

MasterColin: Aug 4, 2006

serebralassazin posted:

They moved to different servers recently. After that I've been getting errors on and off. It's been better in recently days.

My last successful download was on the 18th

I'm looking for a new indexer now. What happened to the non-spoken goon index...

# ? Feb 24, 2014 05:25

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

It was working for a while. Started getting errors so turned it off from sick beard. Just checked now and all it has is a page that says hi. So ya doesn't look like it went anywhere. NZB.su staff seem to be working on the issues. They had a message saying they are fixing issues as they pop up after server move. Hopefully they'll iron them out soon.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 06:12

ReidStylez: Sep 7, 2010; Resident Turbo Hayabusa Expert

MasterColin posted:

My last successful download was on the 18th

I'm looking for a new indexer now. What happened to the non-spoken goon index...

I had a few movies download succesful on the 20th.

There's a non spoken goon index? That'd be cool. Similar to the non spoken torrent one.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 15:44

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

It ended like most goon projects, in utter failure it appears.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 18:21

ReidStylez: Sep 7, 2010; Resident Turbo Hayabusa Expert

kri kri posted:

It ended like most goon projects, in utter failure it appears.

Usually someone else picks up the project. I could see the Usenet one being not as easy to pick up though.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 18:53

GobiasIndustries: Dec 14, 2007; Lipstick Apathy

Has anyone else had issues with Couchpotato creating duplicate entries in their XBMC database? I just enabled it to send notifications to update the XBMC library when a movie finishes, but it's also scanning through my TV library and creating duplicate entries for every single episode of TV I've got in there. I don't have it set to do a full library update and I don't know why it's triggering anything to do with TV shows. I'm running the latest version of CP and the stable build of XBMC 12.

# ? Feb 26, 2014 06:38

Exioce: Sep 7, 2003; by VideoGames

ReidStylez posted:

Usually someone else picks up the project. I could see the Usenet one being not as easy to pick up though.

Goddamn, who's that chick in your avatar???

# ? Feb 26, 2014 09:31

Vykk.Draygo: Jan 17, 2004; I say salesmen and women of the world unite!

# ? Feb 26, 2014 13:35

Exioce: Sep 7, 2003; by VideoGames

I'm sorry, I don't usually do this sort of thing, but...

# ? Feb 26, 2014 13:53

theangryamoeba: Sep 26, 2008

Exioce posted:

I'm sorry, I don't usually do this sort of thing, but...

Where do you think you are? Reddit?

Copy the url for his profile pic and try running it through tineye.

# ? Feb 26, 2014 18:30

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

I haven't visited in this thread for a while. Short of a really annoying issue where Sickbeard's Config > Search Providers page giving me red error text for who knows how many months (a year, maybe?) everything has been working swimmingly.

Lately stuff comes later and later. Is this just more active takedowns, etc? Or perhaps something wrong with my host or search provider? (poo poo I don't even know who that is anymore because of the aforementioned issue where that page of Sickbeard is corrupted for me.)

[edit]

Actually, on the off-chance someone might know what I need to do to fix this (as minimally destructively as possible) I will leave the error here:

code:

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 660, in respond
    response.body = self.handler()
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 193, in __call__
    self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 25, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 980, in index
    return _munge(t)
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 122, in _munge
    return unicode(string).encode('utf-8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1010, in __unicode__
    return getattr(self, mainMethName)()
  File "_Applications_Sickbeard_data_interfaces_default_config_providers_tmpl.py", line 261, in respond
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 245, in valueFromSearchList
    executeCallables=executeCallables)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 226, in _valueForName
    _raiseNotFoundException(key, obj)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 167, in _raiseNotFoundException
    raise NotFound(excString)
NotFound: cannot find 'providerType'

Feenix fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Feb 27, 2014

# ? Feb 27, 2014 07:00

Tapedump: Aug 31, 2007; College Slice

So there's a download that I want to get on a daily basis, but only the lowest quality DL.

Looking at dognzb and nzb.su it's clear there are at least two versions of it released each day. One is <Title> HDTV X264 <group>, about 350MB, and the other is <title> 720P HDTV X264 <group>, at 1.2GB or more.

I would very much like Sickbeard to grab the former and pass it to SAB, ignoring the latter. However, I cannot get the SB quality settings right to make this work.

Unknown finds nothing, SD (TV/DVD) finds nothing, and HD TV or any other setting (including Any) always grabs the 720p version. Can I make this happen?

# ? Feb 27, 2014 07:19

DashingGentleman: Nov 10, 2009

Not sure about sickbeard, but Nzbdrone has options to specify upper and lower limits on file size for each quality setting. You could probably fiddle one of these to make it work (though it's not really supposed to be used that way I don't think - there is no way to add completely custom qualities or control what keywords they use, just the expected size per half hour of content).

You could also almost certainly set this up with a custom search or RSS feed on your indexer, but I've no experience with these.

Also, what is this talk of a goon torrent tracker? Is this something that exists/has existed/has crashed and burned horribly?

# ? Feb 27, 2014 10:24

UltimoDragonQuest: Oct 5, 2011

Tapedump posted:

So there's a download that I want to get on a daily basis, but only the lowest quality DL.

Looking at dognzb and nzb.su it's clear there are at least two versions of it released each day. One is <Title> HDTV X264 <group>, about 350MB, and the other is <title> 720P HDTV X264 <group>, at 1.2GB or more.

I would very much like Sickbeard to grab the former and pass it to SAB, ignoring the latter. However, I cannot get the SB quality settings right to make this work.

Unknown finds nothing, SD (TV/DVD) finds nothing, and HD TV or any other setting (including Any) always grabs the 720p version. Can I make this happen?

Is <title> identical for both releases? A small difference could be why Sickbeard can't find an SD release you know exists. This might be a search issue and nothing to do with quality settings.

If it's something like Show.720p and Show.with.Guy.HDTV you should try requesting a scene exception on the sickbeard forum.

# ? Feb 27, 2014 11:28

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

Feenix posted:

code:

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 660, in respond
    response.body = self.handler()
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 193, in __call__
    self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 25, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 980, in index
    return _munge(t)
  File "/Applications/Sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 122, in _munge
    return unicode(string).encode('utf-8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1010, in __unicode__
    return getattr(self, mainMethName)()
  File "_Applications_Sickbeard_data_interfaces_default_config_providers_tmpl.py", line 261, in respond
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 245, in valueFromSearchList
    executeCallables=executeCallables)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 226, in _valueForName
    _raiseNotFoundException(key, obj)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 167, in _raiseNotFoundException
    raise NotFound(excString)
NotFound: cannot find 'providerType'

I've fixed my permissions. I've installed latest python. Rebooted my machine. Nothing fixes this for me. I have to wonder if the only solution is a removal and fresh installation of SB.

(and I also recall several years ago when I set up SB and SAB, there was a lot of trial and error on my part, so I'm really hesitant to have to do this all over... but I need to fix my search providers tab so I can update my new NZB.SU API.)

Any thoughts?

[edit] And If reinstalling is the best way to go, other than screenshotting all my config pages for easier setting up is there anything I can safely save or copy back to minimize work, but not carry over this error? Or saving my TV show list or something?

Feenix fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 27, 2014

# ? Feb 27, 2014 19:42

Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

Googling that error gives many hits. The common fix seems to shutdown SB, edit the config.ini (after making a backup!) and remove malformed (or all) search providers. Maybe try that first?

# ? Feb 27, 2014 19:54

FISHMANPET: Mar 3, 2007; Sweet 'N Sour
Can't
Melt
Steel Beams

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Is <title> identical for both releases? A small difference could be why Sickbeard can't find an SD release you know exists. This might be a search issue and nothing to do with quality settings.

If it's something like Show.720p and Show.with.Guy.HDTV you should try requesting a scene exception on the sickbeard forum.

Since it hasn't bee explicity stated, I'll say that HDTV x264 without 720p is the proper naming format for an SD release. So it could be a name problem, but choosing SD as quality should get you what you want.

# ? Feb 27, 2014 20:01

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

Grim Up North posted:

Googling that error gives many hits. The common fix seems to shutdown SB, edit the config.ini (after making a backup!) and remove malformed (or all) search providers. Maybe try that first?

I came across those hits too. It sounded like a winner only I don't really know what's malformed and what should be removed and from what part of the config.ini.

Any ideas?

[edit]Holy gently caress I think I fixed it. I went into config.ini and not knowing what the gently caress, I just deleted everything between the " " marks after Newsnab =

Feenix fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 27, 2014

# ? Feb 27, 2014 20:01

Tapedump: Aug 31, 2007; College Slice

FISHMANPET posted:

Since it hasn't bee explicity stated, I'll say that HDTV x264 without 720p is the proper naming format for an SD release. So it could be a name problem, but choosing SD as quality should get you what you want.

In response to the earlier question, <title> is identical ~~though <group> is not~~ and <group> is identical (though there is more than one <group> releasing. The filename naming conventions are even the same.

Example:

SHOW STARRING SOME GUY 2014 02 25 SOME OTHER HUMAN 720P HDTV X264-BASKERVILLES
and
SHOW STARRING SOME GUY 2014 02 25 SOME OTHER HUMAN HDTV X264-BASKERVILLES

The 720p version gets grabbed by SB every..single..time.

While I understand what you're saying Fishmanpet, SD does not fetch anything. At all. So ~~I'm assuming its a naming-based issue as Ultimo posited~~ I don't know what the hell.

I'm currently setting quality to Any and hoping the smaller encodes just get snapped up faster than the 720p encodes come out.

Tapedump fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Feb 28, 2014

# ? Feb 27, 2014 20:56

Mthrboard: Aug 24, 2002; Grimey Drawer

How recent is your version of Sickbeard? There was a while after the scene switched from xvid to x264 when Sickbeard wouldn't find SD releases, but that's been a couple years now since most groups switched formats. If you're still running a version that old, try updating.

# ? Feb 28, 2014 05:27

Tapedump: Aug 31, 2007; College Slice

Just updated last week to the newest compiled Win exe. Thanks though.

# ? Feb 28, 2014 17:11

dzarc: Jul 3, 2004; Stupid Newbie

So lately when I click on the button that initiates a download, the nzb file is also downloaded. It didn't used to do that. Did something happen?

# ? Mar 5, 2014 20:18

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

dzarc posted:

So lately when I click on the button that initiates a download, the nzb file is also downloaded. It didn't used to do that. Did something happen?

Assuming you're using one of the FF/Chrome SAB plugins, it could just be screwed up. Mine would do that on occasion after not closing the browser for a long while or resuming from sleep. Try closing browser (verify/kill in task manager) and reopen. If that doesn't work, disable/re-enable or re-install the plugin. Usually just closing the browser fixes it for me.

# ? Mar 6, 2014 01:42

Brotato Broth: Feb 21, 2012

Out of curiosity, are there any active usenets still around, posting-wise? Or did the entire alt.* text traffic die out altogether?

# ? Mar 6, 2014 17:52

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

Just noticed there's no built-in way to tell Sick Beard to prefer h.264/x264 over xvid. :sigh:

# ? Mar 6, 2014 19:30

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Brotato Broth posted:

Out of curiosity, are there any active usenets still around, posting-wise? Or did the entire alt.* text traffic die out altogether?

Google Groups does actual text usenets for some hierarchies, and there is still active discussion there for some computer-related things. comp.protocols.time.ntp had some of the first reports of NTP reflection attacks back last November, for example.

Edit: I'm curious as to how many people still use an actual newsreader for stuff like this, I assume they must exist.

# ? Mar 6, 2014 19:35

Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

scroogle nmaps posted:

Edit: I'm curious as to how many people still use an actual newsreader for stuff like this, I assume they must exist.

pan, the pimp-rear end newsreader. :allears:

# ? Mar 7, 2014 00:12

FISHMANPET: Mar 3, 2007; Sweet 'N Sour
Can't
Melt
Steel Beams

Hogburto posted:

Just noticed there's no built-in way to tell Sick Beard to prefer h.264/x264 over xvid.

I believe you can set it to ignore xvid (aka posts with the string xvid in them), but if you're searching for SD and the only post is Xvid, it just won't pull anything. There's no quality setting that differentiates xvid from x264.

# ? Mar 7, 2014 01:31

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

FISHMANPET posted:

I believe you can set it to ignore xvid (aka posts with the string xvid in them)

I think you're remembering the page in Couch Potato. This is all you can do from Sick Beard's build-in interface.

Gonna have to run from source and write some REGEX when I get around to it, I suppose.

# ? Mar 7, 2014 01:36

FISHMANPET: Mar 3, 2007; Sweet 'N Sour
Can't
Melt
Steel Beams

There's a setting in advanced settings (though I guess it's not even documented on the wiki).

~~Basically setup a file for advanced settings like this: https://code.google.com/p/sickbeard/wiki/AdvancedSettings~~ Actually nevermind, all the settings are in config.ini, even ones you configure through the web interface. So just shut down Sickbeard and edit the existing file.
And then add this to the file: http://sickbeard.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4312

# ? Mar 7, 2014 01:53

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

Madness. I'll probably filter xvid out before adding new shows and doing bulk backlog searches. Thanks for finding that.

# ? Mar 7, 2014 02:16

dzarc: Jul 3, 2004; Stupid Newbie

B-Nasty posted:

Assuming you're using one of the FF/Chrome SAB plugins, it could just be screwed up. Mine would do that on occasion after not closing the browser for a long while or resuming from sleep. Try closing browser (verify/kill in task manager) and reopen. If that doesn't work, disable/re-enable or re-install the plugin. Usually just closing the browser fixes it for me.

Thanks! Apparently this is only an issue for me on dognzb.

# ? Mar 8, 2014 02:57

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Okay, I just took my first dip into Usenet. I got a 10GB plan with GigaNews but I am totally lost from there. I've been browsing the newsgroups that show up in my list while using Mimo but they all seem to be overrun with spam or otherwise dead since 2003. The most popular .binaries. groups don't show up in my list, as if GN has them blacklisted or something. Am I missing something?

I'm totally lost, any help is appreciated

# ? Mar 9, 2014 20:37

NickPancakes: Oct 27, 2004; Damnit, somebody get me a tissue.

FFStudios posted:

Okay, I just took my first dip into Usenet. I got a 10GB plan with GigaNews but I am totally lost from there. I've been browsing the newsgroups that show up in my list while using Mimo but they all seem to be overrun with spam or otherwise dead since 2003. The most popular .binaries. groups don't show up in my list, as if GN has them blacklisted or something. Am I missing something?

I'm totally lost, any help is appreciated

Few people bother using news readers directly anymore. What you need is an NZB site (like dognzb) and a NZB Downloader (like SABNZBD). NZBs are like torrents, in that they are small files you download from a site and feed into a downloader, but whereas torrents link to a server where you can connect to peers who have pieces of the file you want, an NZB has a list of where each file part is on the newsgroups. SAB will find all these files (using your GigaNews sub), piece all of them together, fix up any files that didn't download perfectly, and spit out the linux iso you were looking for.

# ? Mar 9, 2014 20:46

Boris Galerkin: Dec 17, 2011; I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!

Does nab.su delete accounts for inactivity? I see that I have an account listed in my password manager, but it tells me the login isn't found if I try to login.

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TraderStav: May 19, 2006; It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

Best Android app to manage multiple servers? I want to add both the local address and external one for times when Usenet knocks out my lovely internet but also manage outside of my home. Adding nzbs and reordering downloads would be nice as well.

Thanks in advance!

# ? Mar 22, 2014 15:08

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