DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Sorry, I must've missed that post.
Can you give more information on your problem? Can you start Automatic manually, by typing (in the ffp/start directory):

./automatic.sh start

funplug-0.5 creates a logfile at /mnt/HD_a2/ffp.log, check it for references to Automatic.
It should say

Starting /ffp/bin/automatic -c /ffp/etc/automatic.conf

This means it is executed by the boot script, but something causes the app to close down immediately.
If you've specified a logfile in your /ffp/etc/automatic.conf, it might contain information as to why it did not start properly.

If ffp.log says

* /ffp/start/automatic.sh inactive

instead, then it doesn't have the executable flag. Check via 'ls -alh'.

That is very weird. Does the fun_plug script at startup maybe access a different /ffp root directory? (do you have a stray FFP setup somewhere)
If there's no mention whatsoever to automatic in ffp.log, then the automatic.sh is not where it's supposed to be.

Actually, there's a bug in these startup scripts: the keywords for rcorder are PROVIDE: and REQUIRE:
Please correct this in both transmission.sh and automatic.sh, and  then type this on the console:

rcorder /ffp/start/*.sh

Both transmission.sh and automatic.sh should be listed somewhere in there, and transmission should be listed before automatic.sh

Nice to hear you could fix your problem

Currently, that's not possible, but it's already on my todo list. I'll post here once it's been implemented.

This script looks very promising indeed... Just wondering, taking a quick look at it it still looks fairly point and shoot, but are there plans in the works to add filtering / etc?

Right now I'm using scaneRSS with Azereus, and it works great.  For instance,

add an RSS feed for a local public broadcast program..

Set a filter such that it downloads only new episodes from a certain group, or more specifically something like S03E08 or greater, no duplicates, etc.


Any thoughts on implementing this, or is it there and I just need to really start boning back up on my regex?

Thanks again for the script, if it starts working I can finally turn off the machine that runs all the time that lives just to do BT!

Diamond187

New version 0.1.4 is out. I updated the first post.

mudapw: This fixes the segmentation fault you experienced, so the program shouldn't crash on you anymore.
Downloading torrents from password-protected feeds proves a bit more difficult though, so that's not possible yet, I'm afraid.
I haven't found a solution for this that I'm happy with. I'll keep you updated though.

Fevida wrote:

I'd love to give Automatic a try, but the downloadlink in the startpost is not working. :(

I'm terribly sorry, webspace was offline for a while. It should work fine now though, please try again.

The next version will support multiple RSS feeds, shouldn't be that much longer. I'll keep you posted.

Automatic is designed to check the items of an RSS feed against one or more filters. Not defining any filters (regular expressions) currently doesn't work. It would never download anything because it doesn't match anything.

If you want to download every item in your feed, I guess you could specify a singler filter as ".*", I haven't tested that yet though.

Doesn't it make more sense to subscribe to a feed that provides TV episodes of different shows, and then pick the ones you want to see via filters?
Specifying the filter inside the URL seems somewhat convoluted to me.

New version 0.2 with support for Transmission 1.3+ and support for multiple RSS feeds is out!

The first post has been updated with information about the new release and new links as well.

Please note that the configuration file has numerous new options and some were removed, so please use the new automatic.conf-sample as template.

EDIT: Ok, for some reason the changes of the first post I made earlier didn't take. I've updated it again and it's working fine now.

Last edited by KyleK (2008-08-15 22:17:57)

Sounds like a great tool. Good job. A nice feature would be to have it also check a watch folder, so if you upload/put a torrent file in that folder, it's added to transmission daemon as well!

Is the source available? (Above link to source doesn't get me to source download, just info page on version 0.14).

Last edited by Opperpanter (2008-09-02 21:40:40)

watchfolder function(ish) - if you copy .torrent files to
/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/torrents/
and restart transmission
/mnt/HD_a2/ffp/start/transmission.sh restart
it will pick up torrent files you put there and add them without you using the web interface to do it.
handy if you have a large batch of torrent files you want to add.
It takes a while to get back up and running but at least you dont have to upload each file manually.

Last edited by index monkey (2008-09-03 01:57:23)

Just as a heads up, the downloads won't be available for about a week. Waiting for new internet connection.
I'll let you guys know as soon as everything's back up to normal.