SABNZBD, Sickbeard & Couchpotato Guide.

DrJohnZoidberg said:
SickRage can also handle failed downloads which is pretty sweet. If your download fails in SAB then it automatically marks that file as failed and tries a new one.
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How do you get sickrage to download another episode? My settings are correct but when a download failed it just stays like that, no new episode is downloaded or even searched for.
 
The_Mowgs said:
How do you get sickrage to download another episode? My settings are correct but when a download failed it just stays like that, no new episode is downloaded or even searched for.
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Well it depends if there is another file available. If there isn't another source available it will just be added to the search backlog.

Are you 100% certain your settings are correct? When you go to Manage -> Failed Downloads, can you see the list of failed downloads?
 
I had 2 failed downloads this morning but could you point me in the direction of a setup guide to just comfirm if my settings are correct or not please.
 
The_Mowgs said:
I had 2 failed downloads this morning but could you point me in the direction of a setup guide to just comfirm if my settings are correct or not please.
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https://github.com/rpluto/SickRage-Dev/blob/master/readme-FailedDownloads.md

The primary new feature of my branch is the handling of failed downloads. If you're using SABnzbd, set the following options under Switches:

Disable Abort jobs that cannot be completed
Disable Post-Process Only Verified Jobs
And under Special:

Enable empty_postproc
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The settings are the same so it might be that there is no other source as you said.
 
Installed SickRage last night, was a bit of a pain but I guess now it's all Git'd out and easy peasy to update it. It seems to scan my series folder and let me add a few at a time then hang for a bit. I added two batches of shows and this morning it had downloaded quite a few eps which is nice as those would have been missing. Planning to add the rest tonight and go through each show to make sure it's "wanting" the right stuff etc. Seems pretty cool so far.
 
Have another Question guys.

How to enable the Autoprocess . EXE in the Scripts folders. This new setup only have .PY files?

Please assist?

DrJohnZoidberg said:
Yep, it's a fork of the Sickbeard project so many things are the same but they're actually actively working on it still. Sickbeard development seems to have stopped completely.
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I Installed it last night. Works Perfect. Thank you!!
 
Hi guys.
Great tutorial, thanks.

I think I made a mistake somewhere though, SAB is queuing 2 exact same downloads for the show (from SB)
I'm not sure if it was me fiddling with the setting or something that just went wrong.
It worked fine for two other downloads from SB.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
 
Throwing one out there :

I need help stopping the NZBGet and Transmission downloads from happening on my Raspberry Pi when my external hard drive isn't connected and then continuing when it does.

See, my Ext HDD has a physical button for power. So when loadshedding ends, it doesn't turn back on automatically (you'd have to press the button) but the Raspberry Pi does. Then the Pi starts downloading to a location on the SD card, which in most cases gets full and then gives me errors. I also have to restart the downloads.

I was thinking something along the lines of halting the Pi's bootup when the HDD isn't detected (although I have no clue how to implement that), but then that'd give me problems if I ever want to use the Pi without the HDD.

Any ideas ?
 
Dylan_G said:
Throwing one out there :

I need help stopping the NZBGet and Transmission downloads from happening on my Raspberry Pi when my external hard drive isn't connected and then continuing when it does.

See, my Ext HDD has a physical button for power. So when loadshedding ends, it doesn't turn back on automatically (you'd have to press the button) but the Raspberry Pi does. Then the Pi starts downloading to a location on the SD card, which in most cases gets full and then gives me errors. I also have to restart the downloads.

I was thinking something along the lines of halting the Pi's bootup when the HDD isn't detected (although I have no clue how to implement that), but then that'd give me problems if I ever want to use the Pi without the HDD.

Any ideas ?
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Hi, which version of Raspberry Pi do you have?
I have the very first one here and I want to install the above mentioned on it as well.
 
Dylan_G said:
Throwing one out there :

I need help stopping the NZBGet and Transmission downloads from happening on my Raspberry Pi when my external hard drive isn't connected and then continuing when it does.

See, my Ext HDD has a physical button for power. So when loadshedding ends, it doesn't turn back on automatically (you'd have to press the button) but the Raspberry Pi does. Then the Pi starts downloading to a location on the SD card, which in most cases gets full and then gives me errors. I also have to restart the downloads.

I was thinking something along the lines of halting the Pi's bootup when the HDD isn't detected (although I have no clue how to implement that), but then that'd give me problems if I ever want to use the Pi without the HDD.

Any ideas ?
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You could possibly write a script like this that runs every 5 minutes or so. It will check if your disk is available using it's UUID (just replace YOURDISKUUID with the actual disk UUID. Then you can list a bunch of tasks that should happen if the disk is not present, the opposite happens if disk is present again.

This isn't a tested script.

Your cronjob.
Code: 
*/5 * * * * /root/disk-check-script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

Your file (e.g. /root/disk-check-script.sh)
Code: 
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -f /dev/disk/by-uuid/YOURDISKUUID]; then
   echo "External disk disconnected. Shutting down download services."
   service servicename1 stop
   service servicename2 stop
   touch /tmp/.downloadservices_disabled
else
   echo "External disk connected."
   if [ -f /tmp/.downloadservices_disabled ]; then
      echo "Restarting download services."
      service servicename1 start
      service servicename2 start
      rm /tmp/.downloadservices_disabled
   fi
fi
 
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