Media Rover

[wally007]

...it'd better if MR just ignored ONE source error and continued with other sources.

It's supposed to be doing that.  I'll have a look and get back to you

This is the feed that shows up in place of ALL old nzbmatrix rss links
http://rss.nzbmatrix.com/rss-moved.php

So if you have older nzbmatrix rss feed , you should be able to trigger same error i had.

[kierse]

This is the feed that shows up in place of ALL old nzbmatrix rss links
http://rss.nzbmatrix.com/rss-moved.php

Thanks, that helped reproduce the error

...it'd better if MR just ignored ONE source error and continued with other sources

True, but it would likely make my life a living hell in the future .  This problem is slightly different than the previous one you and I have dealt with.  In the past, MR was crashing because one of the feeds was unavailable.  The solution was to update MR to trap connection errors and skip to the next source.  This new error is occurring because nzbmatrix isn't returning data formatted the way MR expects.  In this case, the solution is to have the source plugin verify the data and raise an error if something is amiss. 

I don't want to blindly trap any/all errors as this will hide code and other human errors and make things difficult to debug.  Let's see how this new level of data verification works and go from there.  I've pushed the updates to Github, give them a whirl and let me know if you run into any problems.

Kierse

[kierse]

Hi everyone,

I just pushed some code changes to Github that introduce some new functionality to Media Rover.  Here's a quick overview of the changes:

1) rewrote mediarover.py to be the single point of execution for all MR functionality.  From now on, running MR without any arguments will get you the following:

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Usage: mediarover.py [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

Description: Media Rover is an automated TV download scheduler and catalogue maintainer

Available commands are:
   schedule       Process configured sources and schedule nzb's for download
   episode-sort   Sort downloaded episode
   set-quality    Register quality of series episodes on disk
   write-configs  Generate default configuration and logging files

See 'python mediarover.py COMMAND --help' for more information on a specific command.

Each available command has it's own set of command line options.  A complete description of a command and it's options can be found by running the following:

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> python mediarover.py COMMAND --help

For example, here is the help documentation for the 'write-configs' command:

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> python mediarover.py write-configs --help

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Usage: mediarover.py write-configs [options]

Description: generate default configuration and logging files

Options:
  -c /PATH/TO/CONFIG/DIR, --config=/PATH/TO/CONFIG/DIR
                        path to application configuration directory
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Examples:
   Generate default application config files:
     > python mediarover.py write-configs
	
   Generate default application config files, in a specific directory:
     > python mediarover.py write-configs --config /path/to/config/dir

2) removed episode_sort.py.  Keeping in line with the previous statement, episode sorting is now a function of the mediarover.py script.  Along with this change comes the ability to easily sort a downloaded episode manually.  Instead of having to provide the 7 arguments usually supplied by SABnzbd, a user can now manually sort a downloaded episode by providing the download path and (optionally) the episode quality.  One drawback to this change is that a shell script will now be required by everyone wishing to have SABnzbd automatically sort downloaded episodes (due to the new argument requirement).  I suspect most users already use the shell script to invoke MR so I don't think this will be too big of a problem.  The various shell script examples (in the scripts/ directory) have been updated to properly invoke MR using the new approach.

3) added ability to populate the metadata database with quality information for your existing episodes.  See

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> python mediarover.py set-quality --help

for details

I imagine there will be some bugs with these changes.  As always, please post here or create a support ticket in the Github issue tracker

Kierse

[pilGrim]

2) removed episode_sort.py.  Keeping in line with the previous statement, episode sorting is now a function of the mediarover.py script.  Along with this change comes the ability to easily sort a downloaded episode manually.  Instead of having to provide the 7 arguments usually supplied by SABnzbd, a user can now manually sort a downloaded episode by providing the download path and (optionally) the episode quality.  One drawback to this change is that a shell script will now be required by everyone wishing to have SABnzbd automatically sort downloaded episodes (due to the new argument requirement).  I suspect most users already use the shell script to invoke MR so I don't think this will be too big of a problem.  The various shell script examples (in the scripts/ directory) have been updated to properly invoke MR using the new approach.

Hi Kierse,

Is there a document that speaks to the differences between your episode_sort functionality over the SABnzbd sort rename functionality?  Main issue I have with SABnzbd is using ability to use multiple locations across different drives.  Media rover can watch multiple locations will it also place a show in the correct drive location when unpacked, renamed and moved?


Thanks for the hard work on this program!!

pilgrim

[rollingeyeball]

Is there a document that speaks to the differences between your episode_sort functionality over the SABnzbd sort rename functionality?  Main issue I have with SABnzbd is using ability to use multiple locations across different drives.  Media rover can watch multiple locations will it also place a show in the correct drive location when unpacked, renamed and moved?

pilGrim, I can confirm MR does that

[pilGrim]

pilGrim, I can confirm MR does that

Perfect!  Many thanks, that is a good enough reason for me to switch.

One more question, does the mediarover script also use the alias name when renaming?  that would make it perfect in my eyes, given my pain points.

pilgrim

[kierse]

Hey pilGrim,

Is there a document that speaks to the differences between your episode_sort functionality over the SABnzbd sort rename functionality?  Main issue I have with SABnzbd is using ability to use multiple locations across different drives.  Media rover can watch multiple locations will it also place a show in the correct drive location when unpacked, renamed and moved?

MR tries to 'do the right thing' when it encounters a series with more than one location.  When sorting an episode, it first attempts to find an existing season folder within one of the series paths.  If it finds an existing folder, the episode will be sorted there.  If there is no existing season folder, MR attempts to create one and then place the episode in it.  In the situation when MR has to create the season folder (and the series has multiple paths), it will choose the first series path.  The series paths are ordered the same as the paths for tv_root in the config file.

One more question, does the mediarover script also use the alias name when renaming?  that would make it perfect in my eyes, given my pain points.

I assume you are talking about series aliases here?  If MR matches a job title using a series alias, it renames the episode using the parent series name rather than the alias

Kierse

[wally007]

Hey kierse,

are there any new features in new release or its mostly under the hood work ?

[pilGrim]

Hey pilGrim,

I assume you are talking about series aliases here?  If MR matches a job title using a series alias, it renames the episode using the parent series name rather than the alias

Kierse

Hi Kierse, yes I did not explain that well did I.  Based on your comment it sounds like it does what I want which is to name after parent name used on my hard drive.  so Mediarover will match based on child alias, send to queue for download and sort/rename script will ensure file is moved to correct drive location and will name after parent name used on my hard drive.

Dang... I waited way to long to figure this out as this is been my only issue with my system and it was an easy fix, just use your sort script!!

Many thanks!!

pilgrim

[kierse]

Hey wally007,

are there any new features in new release or its mostly under the hood work ?

The meat of this release was the ability to populate the database with quality information for your existing episodes.  The rest of the changes were cosmetic.  My next task is to tackle the ability to delay scheduling jobs.

Kierse

[bischoff]

Hi all,

first of all; i am extremely thankful that i have discovered this wonderful addon. It is absolutely fantastic.

However, I have one small issue at hand. The episode sorting fails when I download a daily show with a different filename structure than the normal (sXeX). I get the following error:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "XXXXXXXX", line 114, in sort
    _process_download(config, options, args)
  File "XXXXXXXX", line 287, in _process_download
    episode = Episode.new_from_string(job)
  File "XXXXXXXX", line 81, in new_from_string
    year = p['year'], month = p['month'], day = p['day'], title = p['title'])
  File "XXXXXXXX", line 271, in __init__
    raise MissingParameterError("missing episode series name")
MissingParameterError: missing episode series name

Any advice on how to fix this issue?

[kierse]

Hi bischoff,

The episode sorting fails when I download a daily show with a different filename structure than the normal (sXeX).

From the error message, it looks like MR wasn't able to identify the series name when it was parsing the nzb report title.  Did you manually schedule this nzb for download or did the MR scheduling script schedule it?  There's no reason why MR shouldn't be able to download daily episodes named with a season and episode number (sXXeXX) so I'm unsure why it's failing.  Without more logging data I don't think I can help.  Can you send me your sorting log?

Kierse

p.s. there has been some major changes since the latest release (0.4.1), specifically in the code responsible for identifying and parsing report titles.  It's quite possible this problem has been fixed.  You might want to consider upgrading to the latest development code.  Don't worry, it's quite stable

[bischoff]

Hi bischoff,

The episode sorting fails when I download a daily show with a different filename structure than the normal (sXeX).

From the error message, it looks like MR wasn't able to identify the series name when it was parsing the nzb report title.  Did you manually schedule this nzb for download or did the MR scheduling script schedule it?  There's no reason why MR shouldn't be able to download daily episodes named with a season and episode number (sXXeXX) so I'm unsure why it's failing.  Without more logging data I don't think I can help.  Can you send me your sorting log?

Kierse

p.s. there has been some major changes since the latest release (0.4.1), specifically in the code responsible for identifying and parsing report titles.  It's quite possible this problem has been fixed.  You might want to consider upgrading to the latest development code.  Don't worry, it's quite stable

Sorry for not being 100% clear on my post, but I meant that there was no SxxExx structure in the filename. It is listed with the date and year instead of SxxExx :-) I'm sending you the sorting log now, and will try the latest development code when I get home later. Thanks!

[avatarr]

I just noticed today (not sure how long this has been going on) that the post-processing script from within SAB is giving an error:

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           Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sabnzbd/scripts/episodesort.py", line 29, in <module>
    from mediarover.scripts.sabnzbd import episode
ImportError: No module named mediarover.scripts.sabnzbd

My logs show this happening as far back as from when I installed mediarover. It doesn't seem to be affecting the sorting (as best as I can tell). Being an anal person, however, seeing the error bothers me. Am I doing something wrong? I can't really make heads / tails of the error.

Thanks in advance. Also, apologies for my n00bness.

[kierse]

Hey bischoff,

Sorry for not being 100% clear on my post, but I meant that there was no SxxExx structure in the filename. It is listed with the date and year instead of SxxExx :-) I'm sending you the sorting log now, and will try the latest development code when I get home later. Thanks!

Thanks for sending the logging output, I'll have a look and see if I can figure out whats going on.  In the mean time, I would suggest downloading/installing the latest code base in the dev branch.  It's been pretty stable for some time and I'll be releasing 0.5.0 in the next few days / week.

I'll let you know what I find

Kierse