[NewzBook] 1.2.8 Newzbin Bookmark + Mobile Search Utility + NZBget interface

[joshua.lyon]

(12-02-2009 07:25 PM)tocheeba Wrote:  Awesome, the NZBGET section works now You're been VERY helpful - thank you!

One suggestion for possible future release:
Progress bar on nzbget page (similar to the blue disk space bar). That's the only feature I miss from the original NZBGET page. I would use newzbook to replace nzbget completely with this option Already trying to do it, but I like the progress bar haha. Also, if I set something to download and go to bed, my girlfriend can now look at the webservice and see a progress bar of when it's complete.

No big deal if its not possible - I know some people might not want it (maybe an option to enable it?).

Thanks so much for all of your help!!!

Good to hear the NZBget section is working now! What did you do to get it running?

I agree that the progress bar is a big missing feature. I'll have to see if I can think of a way to calculate the % complete of a download since as far as I know, NZBget doesn't serve that information up via command line. I also need to add a calculation to give an estimate of the time left on the active download as that's one thing that bothers me about the current interface.

I tweaked the iPhone UI some more to come up with the 1.2.6.5 prerelease - let me know how it works on your iPhone.

PS. There is an NZBget 0.7.0 out on CSI if you are looking for an updated version. I think the only thing that requires 0.7.0 in NewzBook's NZBget Micro App is the History section, which I left disabled in the default NewzBook configuration.

[tocheeba]

Thanks! Text is a lot bigger and its easier to control and read now on the iPhone. Maybe shrink the text just a tad, but its a LOT better than it was before!

[gregg098]

Its a great program. Thank you. But Ive been having an issue where my hard drive spins up every 30 minutes (when it checks Newzbin), then spinsdown. I'm worried about the constant cycling of it over time. Is there a way to make it not spinup the hard drive each time it checks Newzbin?

Thanks again

[joshua.lyon]

(12-27-2009 03:43 AM)gregg098 Wrote:  Its a great program. Thank you. But Ive been having an issue where my hard drive spins up every 30 minutes (when it checks Newzbin), then spinsdown. I'm worried about the constant cycling of it over time. Is there a way to make it not spinup the hard drive each time it checks Newzbin?

Thanks again

Off the top of my head, I'm not really sure. I'm sure I would need to make some code changes on my side, but I don't really know where to start. Do you know of any other applications on the popcornhour that run on a schedule but don't spin up the drive? I might be able to take a look at some of them and see if I can figure out a way to reverse-engineer what they are doing.

I figure it has to be possible - the code just needs to stay loaded in memory so that each time the application checks for new bookmarks it can run from memory instead of off the hard-drive.

[gregg098]

(12-30-2009 02:49 AM)joshua.lyon Wrote:  Off the top of my head, I'm not really sure. I'm sure I would need to make some code changes on my side, but I don't really know where to start. Do you know of any other applications on the popcornhour that run on a schedule but don't spin up the drive? I might be able to take a look at some of them and see if I can figure out a way to reverse-engineer what they are doing.

I figure it has to be possible - the code just needs to stay loaded in memory so that each time the application checks for new bookmarks it can run from memory instead of off the hard-drive.

I guess another solution would be to manually initiate the Newzbin search. Will giving the timer value a "0" turn automatic checking off or just cause problems?

Thanks again.

[joshua.lyon]

(12-30-2009 02:59 AM)gregg098 Wrote:  I guess another solution would be to manually initiate the Newzbin search. Will giving the timer value a "0" turn automatic checking off or just cause problems?

Thanks again.

I'm honestly not sure what putting the 0 would do, but I don't think it's a good idea. You could be asking the system to execute the command every */0 ...which is asking the system to divide by 0 which isn't possible. Here's a snippet from wikipedia better explaining the function:

wikipedia Wrote:There is also an operator which some extended versions of cron support, the slash ('/') operator (called "step"), which can be used to skip a given number of values. For example, "*/3" in the hour time field is equivalent to "0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21".

So "*" specifies 'every hour' but the "*/3" means only those hours divisible by 3. The meaning of '/' specifier, however, means "when the modulo is zero" rather than "every". For example, "*/61" in the minute will in fact be executed hourly, not every 61 minutes.

If you don't want NewzBook to automatically check for bookmarks at all, the better option would be to comment out the cron job. You can do this by modifying the appinfo.json and cronchecker.sh files and adding a hash sign "#" before the cron entry.

In appinfo.json change line 7 from:

Code:

crontab="*/30 * * * * #PATH#/crontab.sh",

To:

Code:

crontab="#*/30 * * * * #PATH#/crontab.sh",

In cronchecker.sh change line 16 from:

Code:

echo "*/30 * * * * /share/Apps/NewzBook//crontab.sh #APPINIT_NewzBook#" >> /tmp/cronentries.a

To:

Code:

echo "#*/30 * * * * /share/Apps/NewzBook//crontab.sh #APPINIT_NewzBook#" >> /tmp/cronentries.a

After you've modified the above files, you will need to manually restart (or stop / start) NewzBook from the "Installed" tab of CSI.

[eddy no1]

hi mate - been using this great app for a few weeks now but for some reason today my file manager has stopped working - i tried reboots etc with no joy i just get a white screen with nothing on atall ???

any help would be spot on cheers
happy new year all

[joshua.lyon]

(12-31-2009 09:59 PM)eddy no1 Wrote:  hi mate - been using this great app for a few weeks now but for some reason today my file manager has stopped working - i tried reboots etc with no joy i just get a white screen with nothing on atall ???

any help would be spot on cheers
happy new year all

Upgrade to the latest version, 1.2.6.5, from my post above using the same method you have used every other time.

If you still have trouble, I would recommend reading the last couple pages of this thread as tocheeba had a similar issue and we went through the fix already.

[gregg098]

I changed my time values to 1440 so that it would check once a day, but since changing this, it has been checking every hour in stead of every 30 minutes. Any ideas why changing both "30"'s to "1440" would make it default to hourly checks?

[joshua.lyon]

(01-02-2010 09:30 PM)gregg098 Wrote:  I changed my time values to 1440 so that it would check once a day, but since changing this, it has been checking every hour in stead of every 30 minutes. Any ideas why changing both "30"'s to "1440" would make it default to hourly checks?

Yes, because that's what you asked it to do. Read the wikipedia quote from my post above. Google 'cron' for more information.

[apachesquirrel]

Hi Joshua, been using this successfully on my A110, excellent thanks. However I have a strange problem when it fetches nzb from newzbin. It seems to download two versions of the same file, but file them in a differently named directory. Any thoughts? cheers.

[joshua.lyon]

(01-21-2010 09:21 PM)apachesquirrel Wrote:  Hi Joshua, been using this successfully on my A110, excellent thanks. However I have a strange problem when it fetches nzb from newzbin. It seems to download two versions of the same file, but file them in a differently named directory. Any thoughts? cheers.

What do you mean by two versions of the file? Do you mean two NZBs? Or two copies of the file-package that the NZB references (eg. the end content that NZBget downloads)? The latter is more likely to be an NZBget or Unpak.sh issue rather than an issue with NewzBook.

Can you give examples of the different names of the duplicate directories?

[stokesie]

Hi there I'm new user with a c200 3 weeks old
using current firmware & internal sata hard drive

i am using NZBget 0.7.0.357 installed via CSI
have installed your recent newzbook via gaya CSI & have successfully (I think!) configured it with my newzbin account.

I can search then download

my only issue is that it doesn't show my download in progress on the nzbget tab. I used NZBget Web Interface to confirm I actually am downloading.

any help or direction to solution would be appreciated.

thanks for your time.

[joshua.lyon]

(01-29-2010 01:13 AM)stokesie Wrote:  Hi there I'm new user with a c200 3 weeks old
using current firmware & internal sata hard drive

i am using NZBget 0.7.0.357 installed via CSI
have installed your recent newzbook via gaya CSI & have successfully (I think!) configured it with my newzbin account.

I can search then download

my only issue is that it doesn't show my download in progress on the nzbget tab. I used NZBget Web Interface to confirm I actually am downloading.

any help or direction to solution would be appreciated.

thanks for your time.

You have to make sure the configuration of NewzBook is set correctly. I've created a number of default configurations (the buttons at the top of the configuration page), but you may have to manually change the NZBget configuration paths if you have a special setup.

[stokesie]

(01-29-2010 01:32 AM)joshua.lyon Wrote:  You have to make sure the configuration of NewzBook is set correctly. I've created a number of default configurations (the buttons at the top of the configuration page), but you may have to manually change the NZBget configuration paths if you have a special setup.

sorted it
for anyone else using NZBget 0.7.0.357
in newzbook config:-
NZBget Configuration
Application Path: /share/Apps/NZBget/bin
Configuration Path: /share/Apps/NZBget/.nzbget

now it works fine