RSS Feed question

[kian]

Hi,
i just managed to get sabnzbd running the way it should. the files are moved correctly after downloaded and the rss feeds have been implemented. however, i cannot test the rss feature yet as the next tv episode will be available upcoming tuesday.

until then i have a few questions:
1. i would like sabnzbd to download the tv episode once it is published in the rss feed (i use rss feeds from tvnzb.com), so it should work automatically. for this i set everything up and ticked the "scheduled" box. but what does the scheduled box mean exactly? does it mean that download starts once a nzb is available in the rss feed or does it mean that it checks the rss feed once a day etc?

2. on tvnzb sometimes some episodes are posted more than 1 time, due to the fact that there are different groups who post the same file. Does sabnzbd understand duplicate information in the rss feed? i mean if there are 2 versions of the same episode reported by the rss feed, will sabnzb download both? or only the first one entered? an i am not talking about the different qualities (mkv vs avi)

3. how does sabnzbd understand through the rss feed that a new episode is out?

i hope you can provide me some answers, as i am not sure yet what to expect once the rss feedds are populated with availbale episodes.

thanks in advance and regards,
k

[fusen]

I also had this issue with the "scheduled" box, I even checked the wiki and it didn't explicitly tell me wtf it meant

ticking scheduled is enabling the rss feed filter.

if it's not ticked then the filter will not be tried. The interval of time between rss feed checks is determined in the config area.

[Ed: Posting about what you download and post to usenet? Are you asking to get banned?]

[kian]

@inpheaux
whom are you talking to? and what do you mean?

@all
does anyone has an answer to the points 2 and 3?

regards,
k

[shypike]

First, have you noticed the "Help" item in SABnzbd's menu's?
There's a whole Wiki behind this so that we don't need to answer all individual questions.

1. "Enabled" means the feed is read periodically, interval can be set in Config->General
    (note there a bug in saving this state. that's solved in the new 0.4.4RC1)
2. 100% identical episodes are skippen (meaning the title is 100% identical)
3. It just reads the feed and downloads every matching title that has appeared since the last read.

[kian]

2. 100% identical episodes are skippen (meaning the title is 100% identical)

hi, thx for the response. i have a question to u 2nd point though:
what do you mean with 100% identical episodes? 100% identical refer to the original episode naming format such as "______.________.s04303.lol.xvid.nzb" or to the unrared nzb would look identical to the one already downloaded, i.e. "______ _____ s04e03"? i hope the latter

edit: can i actually download and install the new svn without loosing my current config?

[Ed: Let's go easy on the abundance of information eh?]

[shypike]

Only titles in the feeds are used for comparison. The NZB names are usually the same (but need not be, like when working with newzbin).

In a later release there will be option to prevent identical NZB names to entering the queue (in general, not just related to RSS).

[kian]

can you define titles please?
title as in [seriesname] and e01s05?
or title as in full rss feed name?

[jking2100]

full rss feed name... i.e.:

.S04E05.HDTV.XviD-0TV

and

.S04E05.HDTV.XviD-0TV

would be the same. Where

.S04E05.HDTV.XviD-0TV

and

.S04E05.REPACK.HDTV.XviD-0TV

are different.

JKing

[shypike]

can you define titles please?

The title is what you see in the RSS preview.
The underlying NZB names are not visible to you.