Manually refresh newzbin bookmarks without auto detect

[andyofb]

is this possible?
I cant have auto detect on because it prevent smy NAS from going into stanby mode.
However i would still like to use newzbin bookmarks.

[shypike]

On the Config->Newzbin page you will find the small link:

Get bookmarks now

Click that and the bookmarks will be retrieved directly.

[andyofb]

that only works if you have the auto-fetch checkbox checked.
Without that it doesn't do anything.

[shypike]

What is stopping you from enabling the checkbox?

[andyofb]

I cant have auto detect on because it prevents my NAS from going into standby mode.

[shypike]

Just set the bookmark interval to 1440 minutes (once per day).

BTW, I don't understand why it keeps the NAS from going into standby.
What are the standby criteria for the NAS?

BTW, I'll change the "get bookmarks now" link to work without the checkbox being enabled.
This is not possible for release 0.4.x. I will do it for the 0.5.0 release.

[andyofb]

this also seems to be happening on my Mac Mini

[andyofb]

i seem to have this working ok now.
will my mac wake up to check the rss feeds and newzbin?

[shypike]

SABnzbd will not do it for you.
Is there some way to wake up the Mac at a specific time?

[andyofb]

I guess i need to wake the mac and launch sabnzbd. Something (RSS or Newzbin) is preventing my mac from sleeping when checking for new data. I need to wake my mac and then check RSS and newzbin. If there is nothing to download let the mac to go sleep by shutting down sabnzbd. But how do i do this?

[shypike]

You can set an end-of-queue command.
Currently you need to have a shell script that will do the standby.
The next release will have an explicit standby command, either as end-of-queue or as a scheduled task.

[PhlangePhace]

Just set the bookmark interval to 1440 minutes (once per day).

I figured this one out myself, and have indeed done this 
Also done the same for RSS checking.

BTW, I don't understand why it keeps the NAS from going into standby.
What are the standby criteria for the NAS?

With my QNAP NAS, my understanding is that we'd like the HDD to go into standby.....so don't necessarily wish bookmarks checked too often potentially accessing the HDD to put new nzb in the queue.

BTW, I'll change the "get bookmarks now" link to work without the checkbox being enabled.
This is not possible for release 0.4.x. I will do it for the 0.5.0 release.

Going through all the config screens the other 'time interval' setting I found was the Watched Folder Scan Speed....the max we can set this to is 3600s i.e. Once per hour?

This is a nuisance for my NAS standby as the nzb folder is being accessed every hour which wakes up my NAS HDD.

What I would like to see (perhaps other NAS owners may like the same) is for the "pause" mode to be split into "pause downloading only" (which is what it currently does, I think?)......but also an additional mode "pause ALL activity"

In a nutshell I have my SABnzbd set to pause at 7am and resume at midnight.....I'd like to be able to tell it to DO NOTHING AT ALL during the hours of 7am and midnight....don't need it to check for nzbs, intenally (sabnbz/nzb folder scan) or externally (newzbin bookmarks) at all until it's ready to commence/resume downloading.

Does that make sense? 

[shypike]

Stopping altogether is not possible. Once a par2 or unrar run, it's not possible to stop them.
Just schedule a program exit and have a cronjob to start it up again.
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[PhlangePhace]

Stopping altogether is not possible. Once a par2 or unrar run, it's not possible to stop them.
Just schedule a program exit and have a cronjob to start it up again.
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Thanks for the response, shypike.

Sorry, my mistake.....when I said I wanted ALL activity to stop I meant all polling/scanning of folders (HDD activity) and servers (network activity) .....so that once I have paused downloading from news servers I don't mind sabnzb finishing off all post-processing of the posts successfully downloaded.
So once all post-processing is complete and downloading is idle I'd like sabnbz as a whole to stay idle (with no HDD/network accessing) until the 'scheduled resume'.

As I said, I've set the Bookmark and RSS scanning to once per day (1440 mins) but I'd like to think that the max value for the Watched Folder scan speed could be increased above 3600s (once per hour) ?

[You'll have to forgive my ignorance....I haven't got a clue when it comes to setting up cronjobs and such-like.....I'm one of those that need the settings in the app itself to do it all for me]

[shypike]

I'll think about it.
It will not be in 0.4.x, not before 0.5.0 at least.

Filed as ticket 319: https://trac2.assembla.com/SABnzbd/ticket/319