nzbVR (alpha) - Episode scheduler and report monitor for SABnzbd+

[Undisclosedpower]

Ok, cracked it, the URL should be in the form 192.168.1.40:8080/sabnzbd not http://192.168.1.40:8080/sabnzbd/

My only question now is, i've added most of my regular shows, and some have not gotten artwork. I assume the artwork is coming from thetvdb, and I know there is some artwork for the shows there. Any thoughts?

[weldon]

Is there any tutorial that you guys might suggest / able to briefly explain for installing this? I Just Installed xammp and used portable git to download picnic and nzbvr, but I cant figure out where to go from here.
I read about mod_rewrite but it already appears to be on, and i tried adding the location to the nzbvr folder in my virtual hosts file in apache, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Any suggestions? Also should i copy the picnic folder into nzbvr? Or how does it know where to find it?

[liquidox]

Installed from GIT, configured rewrite, getting this error:

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Picnic caught a 'ErrorException'

Undefined variable: c

The exception was thrown from '/var/www/nzbvr/application/models/class.settings.php' line 51.
Trace:

#0 /var/www/nzbvr/application/models/class.settings.php(51): Picnic::errorHandler('/var/www/nzbvr/...')
#1 /var/www/nzbvr/application/classes/class.nzbvr.php(45): Settings->loadFile()
#2 /var/www/nzbvr/application/classes/class.nzbvr.php(67): nzbVR->__construct()
#3 /var/www/nzbvr/application/controllers/class.application.php(35): nzbVR::instance('main')
#4 /var/www/nzbvr/application/controllers/class.application.php(22): ApplicationController->setSkinMode()
#5 /var/www/nzbvr/picnic/picnic/class.picnic.php(161): ApplicationController->__construct()
#6 /var/www/nzbvr/index.php(24): Picnic->render()
#7 {main}

[weldon]

any help getting this installed? I am new to Apache/Webserver stuff and Can't seem to figure this out, but it looks so great it's just teasing me

[wally007]

you can install Abyss web server. very small and very easy web server to install on linux , windows and mac. abyss web site also has guides for setting up your domain , php , Mysql etc ( not that ALL of that is needed , i think only php is needed to run this script )

But be warned , alot of stuff isnt working right in current version. Very neat idea and it looks way cool but isnt for anyone whos looking for stable solution. You can experiment with it though.

[weldon]

you can install Abyss web server. very small and very easy web server to install on linux , windows and mac. abyss web site also has guides for setting up your domain , php , Mysql etc ( not that ALL of that is needed , i think only php is needed to run this script )

But be warned , alot of stuff isnt working right in current version. Very neat idea and it looks way cool but isnt for anyone whos looking for stable solution. You can experiment with it though.

Thanks for your response, I setup abyss and it is much easier than xampp was to configure. I now either get the error above your post when I mess with the config file, or If I rename it so it can't find it just the "loading" circle. Any ideas? My nzbvr folder is at c:\nzbvr .. Should I be doing the url rewrite that is built into abyss? How can I configure the modrewrite expression into the abyss expression? Thanks for your help I really appreciate it.

[wally007]

you have to put nzbVR script under C:\program files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\

That is your root directory as far as Abyss is concerned. once you put that there , navigate to http://YOUR_IP_ADDRESS/nzbVR in your browser. You dont need any URL rewrites for script to work , it'll work with virtual domain albeit not very well.

I think it would be smart to wait for developer to fix few bugs before you start to pull your hair out trying to get it working. Developer already shown interest in doing so and app itself looks VERY tight  it just needs few touches to make it stable enough to use it for everyday use.

[RageX]

I installed this under Nginx on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), and configured URL rewrites.  Unfortunately I get the following error:

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Picnic caught a 'ErrorException'

Undefined index: REQUEST_URI

The exception was thrown from '/var/www/privatewebsite/nzbvr/picnic/picnic/class.picnic.php' line 128.
Trace:

#0 /var/www/privatewebsite/nzbvr/picnic/picnic/class.picnic.php(128): Picnic::errorHandler()
#1 /var/www/privatewebsite/nzbvr/index.php(24): Picnic->render()
#2 {main}

My nginx config is:

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server {
        listen   80;
        server_name  privatewebsite;

        access_log  /var/log/nginx/privatewebsite.access.log;


        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/privatewebsite$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
                fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD   $request_method;
                fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE     $content_type;
                fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH   $content_length;

                #include fastcgi_params;
        }

        if (!-d $request_filename) {
        rewrite /nzbvr/. /nzbvr/index.php last;
        }

        location / {
                root   /var/www/privatewebsite;
                index  index.html index.htm index.php;
        }


        location /sabnzbd {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081;
                include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
        }

Can any one suggest what I may have wrong ?

[mudboy]

I installed this under Nginx on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), and configured URL rewrites.  Unfortunately I get the following error:

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Picnic caught a 'ErrorException'

Undefined index: REQUEST_URI

The exception was thrown from '/var/www/privatewebsite/nzbvr/picnic/picnic/class.picnic.php' line 128.
Trace:

#0 /var/www/privatewebsite/nzbvr/picnic/picnic/class.picnic.php(128): Picnic::errorHandler()
#1 /var/www/privatewebsite/nzbvr/index.php(24): Picnic->render()
#2 {main}

I got this went I went directly to http:///nzbvr/index.php, but it went away when I went to http:///nzbvr/  

No clue why though...

[mudboy]

I'm getting the spinning circle when loading http://hostname/nzbvr/  (path install using directory alias, not virt host)

in my apache2 logs I get
File does not exist: /site/nzbvr/nzbvr/settings.html, referer: http://media/nzbvr/
File does not exist: /site/nzbvr/nzbvr/dashboard.html, referer: http://media/nzbvr/
etc...

oh, and running Ubuntu 9.10 with apache2 php 5.2

[joymonkey]

Thanks Sixones! It took a little while for me to get set up, but it's working great now. I had started to put together my own PHP based scheduler, but nzbVR does everything I need and the mobile skin is sweet!

[joymonkey]

I've one question though; some shows I don't care about format. Is it possible to set it to grab a show in 'any' format?

Also, here's a suggestion: it would be useful to be able to edit multiple Series on one page, so I could quickly change the source and format options for a bunch of shows at once.

[clony3k]

How can i get this "app" to work, if i dont understand the instalation guide? its so freaking complicaded with all the terminal fustration and codes??

[sixones]

Apologies for not replying quicker, lots of updates and replies;

The next major version of nzbVR will be in Ruby, which will put the application closer to a self packaged environment as the only initial requirement will be Ruby + RubyGems. nzbVR will include its own web server, so it will be able to use any port (much similar to SABnzbd+). This will also lead to the distribution of binary packages for each platform which have no dependencies whatsoever but will not be available straight away.

nzbVR in Ruby will include a host of new features;
- NZBMatrix, Newzbin (these will be extendable, if someone can invite me to nzbs.org I can add support).
- Self aware updates and download checks, no need for cron or scheduled tasks
- Improved performance for NAS support (no more memory hogs in the data storage)
- New Series UI with a step-by-step watcher wizard
- Support for SQL databases (sqlite3 by default but can be changed to MySQL for extra performance benefits)
- Improved dashboard UI (with quick search abilities)
- Searches across multiple providers (use one search query to look over Newzbin + NZBMatrix (+ more in the future) at the same time)

@clony3k The application is abit complicated to setup because it requires PHP5 and a web server thats capable of performing URL rewrites. At the moment the best installation guide is the readme; http://github.com/sixones/nzbvr/blob/ma ... E.markdown

@joymonkey Glad its working for you! Not yet, thats a good though. In the next major version I plan on allowing multiple formats and types to be selected, so you can auto-download the different copies. Another good idea, il think about adding it to the new version. If you want to contribute send me a message on github!

@RageX Thats strange, have you changed the path settings in

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settings.xml

in the nzbVR data folder? If not try changing the rewrite to

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rewrite /. /nzbvr/index.php last;

. If that works there might be a bug in the nzbVR routing manager.

@mudboy This sounds like you dont have mod_rewrite setup in your apache config, make sure its enabled and the .htaccess exists in the root of nzbVR.

@liquidox Delete the contents of your data folder and let nzbVR re-create it, sounds like a corrupt settings file. Make sure to run

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git pull origin master

to update to the latest version first though.

@Undisclosedpower You should only need to set the SABnzbd+ url to http://my.hostname/ unless you are using 0.4. The artwork is from TheTVDB, as they provide nice shiny high-res images for most shows. You can use the update-all button to do a re-fetch of all the data and images which might help. But if the shows dont have any images on TheTVDB, nzbVR wont be able to display any.

@bnevets27 The search is very slow, Iv got a plan on how the new version will work to make the user work flow easier and quicker. The main issue is for each character you type, nzbVR will do a search to TVRage for a list of shows. If you just leave it searching, eventually it will finish - unless TVRage is down. See my update at the top of this post for the self-packaged replied.

I've looked at the IMDB "My Movies" feature behaviour but they offer no API for looking at the data, so it would involve HTML scraping which im not really a fan of. I will have another look at doing it with the Ruby version if it turns out to not be that complicated I will get it added in.

I want to add auto-update to the Ruby version, it should be in there once Iv got the first beta version ready (~April). Would love to hear your suggestions on the series!!

[wally007]

NZBs.org doesnt have invites but i just logged out and i see that registration is open again. Their servers must have gotten upgraded , site is much faster lately.