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Philos · (This post was last modified: 09-02-2008 09:05 PM by Philos.)

Disclaimer: Usenet is a good source of legal material to play on your PCH, however it is also misused by uploading illegal and copyrighted material. You should avoid using NZBget to download these materials as this is illegal in most countryâ€™s including the USA.

NZBget on the PCH PART 1 Setting up NZBget

NZBGet is a binary news grabber, which downloads files from usenet based
on information given in nzb-files.

For information on Usenet and nzb files go here:
Usenet: http://www.binaries4all.com/beginners/
NZB: http://www.binaries4all.com/nzb/index.php

To run NZBget you need to have access to a usenet provider. It is possible that your ISP has a news server but if not you can also have a separate usenet account on a â€œpay-serverâ€
Usenet account vary in price from a few $ to 35$ a month depending on your needs.
There are many usenet servers to choose from. Google is your friend.

Once you have a usenet account you can configure NZBget. Your usenet provider will provide you with the information needed.

1. UserID and Password
2. Newsservername and port to connect (normally 119)
3. # of concurrent connections allowed.

The 0.4.1 build of NZBget doesnâ€™t use of SSL; the 0.5.0 version is in testing and does use SSL if your news server provides that. (If you donâ€™t understand, Google) The PCH uses the stable 0.4.1 version of NZBget so SSL is not yet an option. It is not said that the 0.5.0 version will ever be ported by Syabas to the PCH, that is totally up to them.

Now to configure NZBget on the PCH.

In the root of your hard disk you will find a folder called .nzbget (if your donâ€™t see the folder, check if the Usenet-service is started under Setup -> NMT Applications)
Inside that folder you will find 2 files: nzbget.conf and unpak.sh

You can open nzbget.conf with a text editor.

Once you have opened the nzbget.conf file you only need to fill in the information you got from your Usenet provider here:

Code:

# Host-name of news server

server1.host=news.yourserver.com <- Put the server name behind the =

# Port to connect to (default 119 if not specified)

server1.port=119 <- change the port if it is different from 119

# Username to use for authentication

server1.username=USERNAME <- your username

# Password to use for authentication

server1.password=PASSWORD <- your password

# Maximal number of simultaneous connections to this server

server1.connections=4 <- the maximum of concurrent connection (or less)

Now save the file to the same place and reboot** your PCH to activate the changes and you are ready to go
**You can either stop and restart the usenet service in the NMT services menu or reboot by pulling the plug or press on/off eject

NZBget on the PCH PART 2 working with NZBget

Working with NZBget is very straightforward.
Connect to the webgui from a browser via http://ip.of.your.pch:8066
So if your PCH has ip address 192.168.1.100 you type http://192.168.1.100:8066 in your favourite web browser.

First you have to log in:
Userid: nmt
Password: 1234
You will see the NZBgetweb webgui.

[Image: nzbgetweb.jpg]

To add a download just upload your NZB file by clicking the â€œchooseâ€ button and browse to the nzb file.
Then click the â€œupload fileâ€ button and off you go.
The file will be uploaded to PCH and added to download queue. Donâ€™t confuse it with uploading to news server. None files will be uploaded to Internet.
After uploading the nzb file it will take a minute before the program starts to download there is a safety interval of 1 minute so NZBGet wont start downloading while the NZB is not completely on the harddisk (you can adjust the safety interval in nzbget.conf, option â€œNzbDirFileAgeâ€).
You can follow the progress of the download via the webgui or just let it download.

After a download is finished and the nzb file set contains par2 files your download will be checked and repaired if necessary. After that the unpack script in .nzbget will be called and your download will be unrarred.
The unpack script of the PCH is able to unrar rar packed files and also unrar rarâ€™s inside of rarâ€™s.
More functionality is possible with a different script witch I will post in the next part.

With the GUI you will be able to pause/delete and move your downloads. If you need something quick and it is halfway your download queue you can move it to the top of the queue with the buttons in front of the file set.

If you want to pause all downloads for a reason you can do that via pause on the bottom left of the webgui, and restart it again with resume.

All downloads will be downloaded and unpacked to the folder Download on your hard disk and will be in a folder that has the same name as the NZB file you uploaded, so be sure to give your nzbâ€™s descriptive names.

NZBget on the PCH PART 3 tips tricks and f.a.q.

Uploading multiple NZBâ€™s
Uploading nzbâ€™s is also possible by putting them in the nzb folder. The nzb folder is located on your hard disk in .NZBGet\nzb
If you have many nzbâ€™s you want to have downloaded it is easier to just copy and paste them to that folder.

Automating NZB uploads
If you want your PCH as your nzb download station there is a nice tool you can install on your windows pc that will upload the nzbâ€™s to your pch when you open them from your pc.
It is written by one of our own users Balder1978 and has the strange name â€œPCH Torrent uploaderâ€ Big Grin

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...p?tid=4103
To use this make sure that you have ftp enabled because it will upload the files via ftp to the nzb folder.

Using NZBGet via internet
You can open up port 8066 on your router so that you can monitor your downloads via internet.
Opening ftp to internet is also possible so you could use the â€œPCH Torrent uploaderâ€ via internet but be aware that this could be a potential security risk, your nzbget.conf file contains your user id and password for your news server in plain text so if someone breached your security (ftpuser/1234 is not very secure) you could lose your account to some hacker.

ADVANCED: Changing username/password for web-access
You can do this by editing the file â€œsettings.php5â€ in directory â€œ/mnt/syb8634/nzbgetwebâ€ . The problem is that you need telnet-access to PCH. Please see forum for tips on getting telnet to work on PCH.

Using another unrar script
The standard script that is inside the firmware enables you to unrar files. There are several scripts that you can find around the internet that do the same.
A few of the beta testers and the developer of NZBget made a new script that does the same job but can also join ts files.
Open up the unpack script in .nzbget and overwrite everything with this code.
Make sure you use a UNIX editor for this otherwise it wont work.
Enable the option DeleteRarFiles if you are brave enough
Edit: An even better and much more advanced script can be found here:
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...374&page=1

Code:

#!/bin/sh 

#

# NZBGet post-process script

# Script will unrar downloaded rar files, join ts-files and rename img-files to iso.

#

# Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Roubos <peterroubos @ hotmail.com>

# Copyright (C) 2008 Otmar Werner

# Copyright (C) 2008 Andrei Prygounkov <hugbug @ users.sourceforge.net>

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

# 

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

# 

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

#

#

#######################    Settings section     #######################

# Set the full path to unrar if it is not in your PATH

UnrarCmd=/mnt/syb8634/bin/unrar

# Delete rar-files after unpacking (1, 0)

DeleteRarFiles=0

# Joint TS-files (1, 0)

JoinTS=1

# Rename img-files to iso (1, 0)

RenameIMG=0

####################### End of settings section #######################

# Parameters passed to script by nzbget:

#  1 - path to destination dir, where downloaded files are located; 

#  2 - name of nzb-file processed; 

#  3 - name of par-file processed (if par-checked) or empty string (if not); 

#  4 - result of par-check: 

#      0 - not checked: par-check disabled or nzb-file does not contain any 

#          par-files; 

#      1 - checked and failed to repair; 

#      2 - checked and sucessfully repaired; 

#      3 - checked and can be repaired but repair is disabled; 

#  5 - state of nzb-job: 

#      0 - there are more collections in this nzb-file queued; 

#      1 - this was the last collection in nzb-file; 

#  6 - indication of failed par-jobs for current nzb-file: 

#      0 - no failed par-jobs; 

#      1 - current par-job or any of the previous par-jobs for the 

#          same nzb-files failed; 

DownloadDir="$1"   

NzbFile="$2" 

ParCheck=$4 

NzbState=$5  

ParFail=$6 

# Check if all is downloaded and repaired

if [ "$#" -lt 6 ] 

then

    echo "*** NZBGet post-process script ***"

    echo "This script is supposed to be called from nzbget."

    exit

fi 

echo "[INFO] Unpack: Post-process script successfully started"

# Check if all is downloaded and repaired

if [ ! "$NzbState" -eq 1 ] 

then

    echo "[INFO] Unpack: Not the last collection in nzb-file, exiting"

    exit

fi 

if [ ! "$ParCheck" -eq 2 ] 

then

    echo "[WARNING] Unpack: Par-check failed or disabled, exiting"

    exit

fi 

if [ ! "$ParFail" -eq 0 ] 

then

    echo "[WARNING] Unpack: Previous par-check failed, exiting"

    exit

fi 

# All OK, processing the files

cd "$DownloadDir" 

# Make a temporary directory to store the unrarred files

mkdir extracted

# Remove the Par files

echo "[INFO] Unpack: Deleting par2-files"

rm *.[pP][aA][rR]2 

# Unrar the files (if any) to the temporary directory, if there are no rar files this will do nothing

if (ls *.rar >/dev/null)

then

    echo "[INFO] Unpack: Unraring"

    $UnrarCmd x -y -p- -o+ "*.rar"  ./extracted/ 

fi

if [ $JoinTS -eq 1 ]

then

    # Join any split .ts files if they are named xxxx.0000.ts xxxx.0001.ts

    # They will be joined together to a file called xxxx.0001.ts

    if (ls *.ts >/dev/null)

    then

        echo "[INFO] Unpack: Joining ts-files"

        tsname=`find . -name "*0001.ts" |awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`

        cat *0???.ts > ./extracted/$tsname

    fi   

    # Remove all the split .ts files

    echo "[INFO] Unpack: Deleting source ts-files"

    rm *0???.ts

fi

# Remove the rar files

if [ $DeleteRarFiles -eq 1 ]

then  

    echo "[INFO] Unpack: Deleting rar-files"

    rm *.r[0-9][0-9]

    rm *.rar

    rm *.s[0-9][0-9] 

fi

# Go to the temp directory and try to unrar again.  

# If there are any rars inside the extracted rars then these will no also be unrarred

cd extracted

if (ls *.rar >/dev/null)

then

    echo "[INFO] Unpack: Calling unrar (second pass)"

    $UnrarCmd x -y -p- -o+ "*.rar"

    # Delete the Rar files

    if [ $DeleteRarFiles -eq 1 ]

    then  

        echo "[INFO] Unpack: Deleting rar-files (second pass)"

        rm *.r[0-9][0-9]

        rm *.rar

        rm *.s[0-9][0-9] 

    fi

fi

# Move everything back to the Download folder

mv * ..

cd ..

# Clean up the temp folder

echo "[INFO] Unpack: Cleaning up"

rmdir extracted

chmod -R a+rw . 

rm *.nzb

rm *.1

rm .sfv

rm _brokenlog.txt

if [ $RenameIMG -eq 1 ]

then

# Rename img file to iso

# It will be renamed to .img.iso so you can see that it has been renamed

    if (ls *.img >/dev/null)

    then

        echo "[INFO] Unpack: Renaming img-files to iso"

        imgname=`find . -name "*.img" |awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`

        mv $imgname $imgname.iso

    fi   

fi

More then one file sets in one NZB

NZBget can handle more then one file set in one NZB. It will download and check the pars and run the unpack script after every file set.
The upak.sh script (both the original and the one posted here) will check first if all sets in the nzb where already downloaded, only after the last set was downloaded the script will unpack everything.

Are there things that NZBget canâ€™t handle?

Yes, password protected files are not handled. As are Zip 7z arj and other files.
With the script that is posted here it can handle rarred or double rarred files. Split ts files and most of the time split aviâ€™s e.g.: avi.001 avi.002 etc. The unpack script will handle the rar files and the ts files most of the split avi files will be joined by par checking.

Where do I go when I have questions?

With questions about NZBget just post your questions to the forum.
With specific questions about the unpack script post to the forum or PM me.
With specific questions about NZBget functionality post to the forum. The developer of NZBget is also reading these forums.

I tried to download something but it doesnâ€™t get unpacked.

First if you still have the files download everything from your PCH to your PC and check if you are able to unrar it there. Check with quickpar if the file set was complete or not. If all of that is true then PM me, I will give you my e-mail address so you can send me the NZB. I will check it and see if I can come up with a solution. (I have a 20+ Mbit line so most of the downloads will be quick enough, donâ€™t send me 8Gb+ nzbâ€™s please)

Questions? Post them.

Edit:
If you want to use the latest NZBget client and the latest webgui with SSL support and other nice features and know how to use telnet follow this link for a good HowTo:
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...p?tid=7538

**chris57** · 08-20-2008, 10:37 AM

Excellent guide stickied.

I didnt expect to get much use out of this feature but ive found that downloading the nzb files and simply putting them in the nzb folder for the PCH to download during the day whilst im at work is great. I now turn off my PC during the day whereas before it was on 24/7.

Philos · 08-20-2008, 11:09 AM

(08-20-2008 10:37 AM)chris57 Wrote: Excellent guide stickied.

I didnt expect to get much use out of this feature but ive found that downloading the nzb files and simply putting them in the nzb folder for the PCH to download during the day whilst im at work is great. I now turn off my PC during the day whereas before it was on 24/7.

Same here, and installed PCH torrent uploader to my wife's laptop so she can now watch whatever she wants.

And I tell you, teach your wife and your pch will be downloading 24/7 Smile

hugbug · 08-20-2008, 01:37 PM

Great work, Philos! Cool

robbyf · 08-20-2008, 10:13 PM

Great job on these instructions!!! very detailed. with my experiance with it... it takes a long time to unrar something will its downloading. 50 minutes for the process to check files and unrar. of course this varies by the size of file and if it needs to repair... but like chris said.. just leave it on all day and keep the pc off.. when you come its all set Smile

i love this feature.
i'm finding it hard to think of idea's of improving this product as of latly.

Teriffic work everyone

Philos · 08-20-2008, 10:28 PM

(08-20-2008 10:13 PM)robbyf Wrote: Great job on these instructions!!! very detailed. with my experiance with it... it takes a long time to unrar something will its downloading. 50 minutes for the process to check files and unrar. of course this varies by the size of file and if it needs to repair... but like chris said.. just leave it on all day and keep the pc off.. when you come its all set i love this feature.
i'm finding it hard to think of idea's of improving this product as of latly.

Teriffic work everyone

There is a way to pause NZBget Download when unrarring, I do that with my personal unpak script.
In the newest version of NZBGet (Testversion, not final yet) there is even an option to pause downloading while par checking.
This will speed things up when you want to watch something.
If you just wanna download and unrar and watch later it is better to not pause the download and let it check and unrar a bit slower.

In my experience the unraring goes pretty quick if it is not downloading at that moment.

To pause nzbget while unrarring put this line in your unpak script:

Code:

/mnt/syb8634/bin/nzbget -P -c /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/.nzbget/nzbget.conf

To start it again after unrar is finished add this line at the end of the script:

Code:

/mnt/syb8634/bin/nzbget -U -c /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/.nzbget/nzbget.conf

lordy · 08-23-2008, 03:42 PM

Would the following things be useful?

1. Unrar whilst downloading . Rather than waiting for a download to complete , unrar the parts as they arrive. This means the parts should be re-ordered to be in sequence prior to downloading (often the .rar file is last!). This way the unrar activity is spread out over time.
2. Unrar only when system load is low?

Philos · 08-23-2008, 03:53 PM

(08-23-2008 03:42 PM)ydrol Wrote: Would the following things be useful?

1. Unrar whilst downloading . Rather than waiting for a download to complete , unrar the parts as they arrive. This means the parts should be re-ordered to be in sequence prior to downloading (often the .rar file is last!). This way the unrar activity is spread out over time.
2. Unrar only when system load is low?

1. Unrar is not a part of NZBget, it is a seperate script that is called after par checking, so no, its not doable.
2. Unrar only doesnt eat up that much, I have watched 1080P MKV's while unrarring.

lordy · (This post was last modified: 08-23-2008 07:31 PM by lordy.)

(08-23-2008 03:53 PM)Philos Wrote:
(08-23-2008 03:42 PM)ydrol Wrote: Would the following things be useful?

1. Unrar whilst downloading . Rather than waiting for a download to complete , unrar the parts as they arrive. This means the parts should be re-ordered to be in sequence prior to downloading (often the .rar file is last!). This way the unrar activity is spread out over time.
2. Unrar only when system load is low?

1. Unrar is not a part of NZBget, it is a seperate script that is called after par checking, so no, its not doable.
2. Unrar only doesnt eat up that much, I have watched 1080P MKV's while unrarring.

re 1. I know unrar is not part of nzbget. I was asking if it would be useful to unrar files at the same rate they are being downloaded (this would reduce the cpu load.) if course there would be issues with parchecking and ordering segments etc. but just wondered if it would be useful anyway. (FWIW here's my pc based post processing script - although not suitable for PH http://nzbget.sourceforge.net/#Postprocess ). I'd though about this but it wasnt worth the effort on a PC, but may be with embedded devices it would save some time? PS Most things are doable one way or another, but often not worth it Smile

2. OK thats good to know. How long does it take to unrar a 4.4G ISO for example?

gluesniffined · (This post was last modified: 08-25-2008 07:39 PM by gluesniffined.)

Quick question if I may,

On this part of the unrar script:
# Remove the rar files (Temporaly disabled just remove # to activate it)
rm *.r[0-9][0-9]
rm *.rar
rm *.s[0-9][0-9]

could I also add lines to delete the sfv and nfo files with no ill effect, e.g.

# Remove the rar files (Temporaly disabled just remove # to activate it)
rm *.r[0-9][0-9]
rm *.rar
rm *.s[0-9][0-9]
rm *.sfv
rm *.nfo

Also in the .nzbget/nzb the nzb files are left in the folder but renamed to *.nzb.queued. Is there any easy modification to the script to delete the named nzb.queued file after the unrar script is completed? Unfortunately, my shell scripting ain't so good. I know you would need to define a string based on the nzb.queued that you would want to delete while leaving the ones that have not yet finished downloading and being processed.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I modified the following section in my unrar script, copied it back to the PCH and chmodded it 777:

# Remove the Par files
rm *.[pP][aA][rR]2
# Remove the sfv files
rm *.sfv
# Remove the nfo files
rm *.nfo

I'll see how this one works.

EDIT 2: It works like a champ. I also added .txt to this section as any corrupt files that need to be repaired end up in a text file log in the directory.

Now, if only my shell scripting prowess was such that I could also eliminate the .nzb.queued files from the /.nzbget/nzb folder then my life would be complete.....err.....Hmmppp......well, it would be really nice.

hangman · 08-24-2008, 07:07 AM

WebUI looks a lot like Zussaweb (for HellaNZB).

Shouldn't the rm rar command only run if unrar completes without returning any errors? Should be pretty safe that way.

lordy · 08-24-2008, 01:33 PM

(08-24-2008 07:07 AM)hangman Wrote: WebUI looks a lot like Zussaweb (for HellaNZB).

Yup see http://nzbget.sourceforge.net/#Authors

partyfart · 08-25-2008, 07:22 PM

How do i get in the root of the Harddisk. I only get in 'Share'. i'm on a mac.

***werner*** · 08-25-2008, 07:24 PM

you dont need to go into root in the share all is what you need but it is hidden so you have to setup your mac to show hidden directories and files.

regards werner

gluesniffined · (This post was last modified: 08-25-2008 07:37 PM by gluesniffined.)

(08-25-2008 07:22 PM)partyfart Wrote: How do i get in the root of the Harddisk. I only get in 'Share'. i'm on a mac.

If you are using an FTP program you can usually set it to show hidden directories, essentially an 'ls -a'. If you cannot find such a setting in your FTP program I would suggest the free FileZilla: http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

You can also manually type in the directory for your ftp program to change to, the directory is /.nzbget

If you are using the built in CIFS/SMB client in OSX, as Werner said, you can set it to show hidden files and directories. In Unix type operating systems (Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, etc.) directories and files are hidden by naming them with a period '.' as the first character.

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