SABnzbd Monitor, first public release

[FlyveHest]

Hi all,

After two weeks of on and off coding, I am now releasing SABnzbMonitor into the wild.

SABnzbdMonitor is a Windows based SABnzbd monitor tool, giving you a systray icon to monitor and inform you about what SABnzbd is doing, more information is available at the website.

I have been using it for the last week without issues, and I have had no complaints from the testers either.

Download it from here, http://www.reinhold.dk/sabnzbdmonitor/

[FlyveHest]

Also, I might add the Neilt0 had a small annoyance in Vista, with the balloon popups, which he fixed by doing the following (Thanks Neil, for the great testing)

* Press Windows+R, type regedit and hit enter. This starts theregistry editor
* Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows /CurrentVersion / Explorer / Advanced
* Create a new Dword and name it EnableBalloonTips
* The value should be automatically set to 0. Change it to 1
* Reboot Windows Vista or log off and log on again.

Editing the registry is potentially dangerous, do so at your own risk.

[DeXeS]

Looking good!

[switch]

Neat stuff, added to the sticky

I would suggest posting a few screenshots; just a zoomed in section of the taskbar showing it running/paused with popups ect.
Also I would maybe look into shaving off some of the ram usage.

Good stuff anyway, I hope you keep updating it. Even now it's perfect, doesn't need to be overflowing with features to be useful, I prefer it lite.
(btw the new api stuff won't be out for 0.4; too many changes)

[Snow]

I love it !
Till now SABnzbstatus running in Firefox as extension  - nice but you always have to have a FF window open 

This fits really well in the status bar - nice Tooltip balloon and info when i click 

Running Windows XP SP2 and SABnzbdPlus 0.3.1 on a Syno Box.

Will keep testing it and notifying you when things come up.
Thx

[FlyveHest]

Neat stuff, added to the sticky

Thanks \o/

I would suggest posting a few screenshots; just a zoomed in section of the taskbar showing it running/paused with popups ect.

I will make a more use-able website, hopefully tomorrow, I just wanted to get the first releasable version out the door, so I just threw a quick site together.

Also I would maybe look into shaving off some of the ram usage.

I will try and have a look into that, but, I don't think that I really can do much about it, one of the drawbacks of using the .NET framework for development.  Actually the monitor only uses about 60KB, the rest is .NET (which I think is shared between .NET processes, if you run more than one application at a time, but I am not sure about this)

So, I have found some articles about memory optimization in .NET, which I will take a look at, but I am not overly optimistic

Good stuff anyway, I hope you keep updating it. Even now it's perfect, doesn't need to be overflowing with features to be useful, I prefer it lite.
(btw the new api stuff won't be out for 0.4; too many changes)

I also hate it when apps bloat up with unneeded features, my plan is to make more or less all advanced features configurable from the configuration, so, if you do not want eg queue management, you can just disable that feature altogether.

Sorry to hear about the API changes not making it into 0.4, I was looking forward getting to play around with them

[FlyveHest]

I would suggest posting a few screenshots

Site tweaked a bit, screenshots and icon legend has been added.

[daniel_owen_uk]

Does sabnzbnd need to be local to use it?

[DeXeS]

Does sabnzbnd need to be local to use it?

No, works also on a remote computer.

[Sypher]

Nice tool.
May I add a suggestion: Add an option to replace the balloontips with toasts

[FlyveHest]

May I add a suggestion: Add an option to replace the balloontips with toasts

Toasts? Not really sure what that is, could you explain?

[hookers]

Decent program, but it doesn't seem to be working properly for me in Vista 32-bit and I'm not sure why. Just double-clicking on the .exe works okay, it sits in the tray, but it has the red dot and says SABnzbd is not running when in fact it is running. When I try to open the .exe file with Administrative rights, it instantly crashes. The pause feature and everything in the program works, it just can't find the SABnzbd service running in the background. I don't really see anything in the configuration file that might fix this.

[rbesc]

Decent program, but it doesn't seem to be working properly for me in Vista 32-bit and I'm not sure why. Just double-clicking on the .exe works okay, it sits in the tray, but it has the red dot and says SABnzbd is not running when in fact it is running. When I try to open the .exe file with Administrative rights, it instantly crashes. The pause feature and everything in the program works, it just can't find the SABnzbd service running in the background. I don't really see anything in the configuration file that might fix this.

It's been a while since I tried this addon, but try setting SAB+ and sabnzbdMonitor to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.

[auskento]

This program crashes on both my XP and Vista PC's as soon as I try and start it.

Checked to make sure NET 2.0 installed.  All OK as far as I can see :/

[FlyveHest]

This program crashes on both my XP and Vista PC's as soon as I try and start it.

Checked to make sure NET 2.0 installed.  All OK as far as I can see :/

Any sort of output, error messages or anything you could give me to try and solve the bug?