[Part 1] Download torrent & newsserver package

[CurlyMo]

1) That's wierd because those files are not created at install but by the sickbeard itself.
2) My experience was that adding series is really slow, did you wait long enough?

I don't have an SD card left to test these packages, but if some of you guys can give me actual fixes that i can apply, i will update the package and re-upload it.

[Enigmach]

(10th Jan, 2013 01:52 AM)colonelsanders Wrote:  I had a similar problem with sickbeard. On start up it didn't appear to run properly, it wasn't found on the port listed in the configuration.ini. However running the SickBeard.py script made it run but only on the default 8081 port. I was able to login from there and change the settings so that it ran properly though.

Edit: sabnzbd doesn't seem to unpack files properly either during post-processing, leading to errors in post-processing on the sickbeard end.

Edit: sabnzbd won't unpack the files as unrar-free won't unpack multiple rar files

For unrar-nonfree:

Quote:sudo sh -c "echo \"deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y build-dep unrar-nonfree
sudo apt-get source -b unrar-nonfree
sudo dpkg -i unrar*.deb

In case you hadn't found it yet

Furthermore, is there a chance to have this package with NZBGet? I currently have a nice set-up where CP, SB, NZBGet and XBMC are all running without issues, where SabNZBd tended to lock-up the system.

Edit: Had to remove the source due to spam detection. Full link to code is here : http://www.cylindric.net/blog/raspberrypi-adding-sabnzbd-sickbeard-and-couchpotato/

[CurlyMo]

I will look into unrar-nonfree. We still want to use SABnzbd because most users have requested that package and are familiar with it. However, we constantly state that at the current moment, these packages do not work well together with XBMC. So, either use XBMC or these download progs on your RPi.

[SolGarlic]

eth0, how did you manage to build transmission?
I tried following the instructions in trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Building, but something was missing...

(5th Jan, 2013 12:40 PM)eth0 Wrote:  I'd just like to add I'm successfully running XBMC, Transmission, Sick Beard and Couch Potato all at the same time clocked @ 900Mhz. If I play a 1080p film whilst Transmission is downloading then it does indeed lag. I have hacked together (read: badly made, I'm new to Python!) a script that will pause all downloads once you start watching a film and then resume them again once its finished

default.py: http://pastebin.com/fer29Zgn (edit your details on line 21)
addon.xml: http://pastebin.com/mFSB6qvN

Pop both of these files in ~/.xbmc/addons/script.torrentpause and restart XBMC. You will need the python transmissionrpc package, you can install it with `easy_install transmissionrpc`. It's quite limited but it does what I need, feel free to expand on it and I hope its of use to someone

I also built Transmission from the latest nightly build (2.75+) and compiled with:

Code:

--enable-lightweight    optimize libtransmission for low-resource systems:
                          smaller cache size, prefer unencrypted peer
                          connections, etc.

and noticed a slight improvement from the one in the raspbian repo (2.5?)

[min]

I'd like to stop or remove transmission & Sab, and add nzbget.

Can I safely remove the transmission & sab startup scripts?

Do I add nzbget to xbian group to give it proper permissions?

[DynaMight]

All of these programs require quite a bit of CPU and memory to run, I have previously installed them on my Pi (from this guide: http://www.cylindric.net/blog/raspberrypi-setup/) and SABnzb struggled to download at 1MB/sec. So don't expect large download speeds. I don't know if that could had been improved as I didnt play with it for long and had my NAS mounted so possibly that caused larger load.

Anyway, SABnzb is a hog. My NAS has a 1.2Ghz CPU but can only manage SABnzb at about 3-3.5MB/sec @ 90-99% CPU load, whereas NZBGet happily comes down at 7.5MB/sec @ 60-70% CPU load. On my old NAS (400Mhz) as it could just about manage NZBGet at a decent speed, but Sickbeard was too much to handle together, I used Leechr http://code.google.com/p/leechr/ which only ran for a few minutes once a day (you can set more via crontab) it worked really well imo. Download is theres no GUI so all details need to be entered into the config file.

NZBGet + Leechr would be a good lightweight Newsgroups TV show downloader, well NZBGet can be used for any download too.

[Coenen]

How can I update SABnzbd? According to the SABnzbd site, I should just copy the new file over the old files.
But where to find the SAB file on my RPi? I can find CP, SK etc, but not SABnzbd.
I need the latest version of SABnzbd because this version can handle a PAR issue which occurs with some TV series...

As I only have a 8GB flash drive, I would like SAB to save the completed downloads on my WHS2011 server.
But I'm not able to configure the " Completed Download Folder ". When I enter: /home/xbian/share, I get the following error
Incorrect parameter
Cannot create complete_dir folder /home/xbian/share

I have tested /home/xbian/share using putty, I can acces the shared folder on my server.

Update: the share mounting seems to work, didn't test it yet.
Update2: I have tested the mounted share, that's working. But SABnzbd doesn't respond now any more after I had started a download. I also still have not figured out how to update SAB....

[Akodo]

Hey guys, thanks for the awesome work on this distro!
I'm wondering what's the best method for removing individual elements of this package? I only need Transmission so I'm thinking I should just save myself the overhead and remove the other parts to this package. (If the best way is to just remove it all and install transmission by itself, can you post what the settings you used for the all-in-one?
Thanks again!

[CurlyMo]

You can install transmission by:

Code:

sudo apt-get install transmission-cli, transmission-daemon,

Updating SABnzbd through apt:

Code:

sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus

If you want the source of a package just it download the deb manually from here: http://apt.xbian.org/
And extract it somewhere: dpkg -x *.deb [target]

Also, the sources of our packages can always be found on our git:
https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/tree/xbian-alpha5/Updates

[Jordy]

After following all of the instructions in the first post I am not able to access the transmission web interface or the sickbeard interface, I can however access sabnzdb and headphones.

Any ideas on how to fix this? also can't find the settings.json for transmission.

I am running Xbian 1.0 alpha 4

[CurlyMo]

All settings are in /home/xbian/.config/

Also, we had this package in a testing phase but hardly any users did. I'm glad you guys do now, so i can eventually consider and process all suggestions and bugs.

@Jordy, did you try a reboot.

[Jordy]

@CurlyMo, rebooted and it didn't fix anything, so trying to follow those instructions again.
Didn't help. during install there was a message "mv: cannot stat '/etc/transmission-daemon/*': no such file or directory" could this be related?

In other news I can reach all the interfaces except transmission (sickbeard is working now).

edit:
Also for some reason transmission-daemon won't start after a reboot. Why is this? When I type 'sudo service --status-all' it shows [-] next to transmission-daemon. Typing 'sudo service transmission-daemon start' has no output and no effect what so ever.

Any help would be appreciated here.

[SolGarlic]

Instead of the Download package I installed "transmission-daemon" and "Automatic", following the instructions in:
http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=115&pid=546#pid546
for transmission, and
http://kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337/Automatic/
for Automatic

It seems to me that Automatic is lighter than Sickbeard or couchpotato, although it only works with torrents (which I prefer).

It was a bit difficult for a newbie like me to compile Automatic, but I managed.

One problem I have is with Transmission-daemon, as I would like to install the latest version (2.76), and the only available in the repository is 2.52.
Can anyone help me? eth0, you have done it, no?

[eth0]

@SolGarlic, I can't remember what the problem was exactly but I had to modify a few of the Make files. This is my build dir: http://speedy.sh/b4C8H/trans.tar.gz

Just remove the old version via apt, ./configure (I'd recommend with --enable-lightweight), make and make install.

[SolGarlic]

(16th Jan, 2013 02:34 AM)eth0 Wrote:  @SolGarlic, I can't remember what the problem was exactly but I had to modify a few of the Make files. This is my build dir: http://speedy.sh/b4C8H/trans.tar.gz

Just remove the old version via apt, ./configure (I'd recommend with --enable-lightweight), make and make install.

@eth0
I get the errors:
configure: error: in `/var/tmp/libevent-2.0.21-stable':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

when running the command I mentioned in my previous post.
It also directs me to take a look in the config.log that you can find attached

but I don't understand what is the problem...