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Ok, now when the tracker is up and runing, it's time to keep asking my questions

Automatic starts, it finds the program I want it to download, and it even add it to transmission. But it will not be downloaded. I have manually downloaded many other programs from the same tracker with no problems.

I have told automatic.conf to save the program to mnt/HD_a2/RSS/Hotel

Transmission says: Downloading from 0 of 0 peers (this is one of the most downloadable file at the tracker, so I know that there is enough seeders.

Here is what the comand "automatic -f" is saying:

root@nsa220plus:/ffp/start# automatic -f
../src/automatic.c, 530: 1 feed URLs
../src/automatic.c, 531: Read 1 filters from config file
../src/state.c, 100: [load_state] Error: Unable to open statefile '/root/.config/automatic.state' for reading: No such file or directory
[10/09/03 01:07:57] ../src/automatic.c, 384: Found new download: Hotel.**** (http://www.***bits.net/download.php/***/Hotel.***.wmv.torrent)
../src/torrent.c, 121: Torrent has already been added to Transmission
../src/state.c, 66: Saving state (1 downloaded torrents) to disk
../src/state.c, 68: Error: Unable to open statefile '/root/.config/automatic.state' for writing: No such file or directory
../src/web.c, 431: [getHTTPData] 'http://www.***bits.net/rss.php?feed=***': Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)

How can I get the torrent start downloading?

Wohoo. It seems to work

Thank you so much!

Last edited by r2d290 (2010-09-03 12:16:42)

Sorry for being absent for a while, guys. I've moved to another apartment and was without internet for a month (yes, it was hard

I'll be available for support again if anything should come up.

Thanks for a nice program.
When starting with a new program it should be nice if it didn't remove the old logfile. ( add a date stamp to it and save it under another name instead or so). When making changes to the configuration it isn't always i remember to save the old logfile.

after some not so nice words i made this quick change to the automatic.sh file but it will be overwritten by next upgrade.

Now=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")
automatic_flags="-c /ffp/etc/automatic.conf -l /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/automatic-$Now.log"

My head is spinning after trying to understand regular expression.

For a while I had figured a way that was OK. Ex: To download the episodes from the House MD series in 720p I was using the following filter:

filter = { pattern => "^House.*720p"
         }

But, this filter also downloaded the "WEB-DL" version too.

So I was back to study regular expression, and I came up with

filter = { pattern => "(?!.*WEB-DL)^House.*720p"
         }

Can somebody confirm that this expression will match "House" at beginning, 720p somewhere in the rest, but it will discard if WEB-DL is found?

Thanks in advance.

cornelpopa wrote:

My head is spinning after trying to understand regular expression.

For a while I had figured a way that was OK. Ex: To download the episodes from the House MD series in 720p I was using the following filter:

filter = { pattern => "^House.*720p"
         }

But, this filter also downloaded the "WEB-DL" version too.

So I was back to study regular expression, and I came up with

filter = { pattern => "(?!.*WEB-DL)^House.*720p"
         }

Can somebody confirm that this expression will match "House" at beginning, 720p somewhere in the rest, but it will discard if WEB-DL is found?

Thanks in advance.

The expression looks fine to me, it should work.

If you run a Windows OS, I highly recommend The Regex Coach to test regular expressions.
It's rather easy to use and you can play with it until  the expression fits your needs.

I don't know any similar tools on other operating systems off the top of my head, but I'm sure they do exist.

Automatic only works properly if the feed contains direct download links for the torrent file.
Some sites don't like automatic downloading tools, so they won't put the "correct" link into the feed.
Other sites, however, have multiple feeds: One with links to the details page (for use in a browser, for example), and another feed with direct links.
You should check with the site owner.

Ideally, Transmission should be started before Automatic. If both transmission.sh and start.sh in the /ffp/start folder have executable rights, that will automatically happen when you boot up the NAS.

I'm having an issue, I hope someone can offer a solution:

I've gotten RSS feeds for a couple of TV shows I'd like to keep track of, and combined them using a Pipe. I put the pipe URL into automatic. The shows aren't showing up in Transmission, though.. and my automatic.log output looks like:

[10/10/04 13:05:41] ../src/automatic.c, 509: Daemon started
../src/automatic.c, 530: 1 feed URLs
../src/automatic.c, 531: Read 1 filters from config file
../src/state.c, 100: [load_state] Error: Unable to open statefile '/home/root/.config/automatic.state' for reading: No such file or directory
[10/10/04 13:05:41] ../src/automatic.c, 384: Found new download: House 4x12 [720P - HDTV - DIMENSION] (http://www.bt-chat.com/download1.php?info_hash=ef
../src/torrent.c, 124: Error uploading torrent: no method name


Any thoughts?

That did help, putting it all on one line. Now I have:

filter = { pattern => "." folder => "/mnt/HD_a2/Movies/TV\ Shows/" }

The daemon starts up fine, but nothing gets downloaded. Log:

[10/10/06 06:10:14] ../src/automatic.c, 509: Daemon started
../src/automatic.c, 530: 1 feed URLs
../src/automatic.c, 531: Read 1 filters from config file
../src/state.c, 111: Restored 0 old entries

I thought, maybe my filters/folder aren't correct, so I tried commenting out the filter and restarting automatic. Now the log just says, "no filters found", and automatic exists.


I was able to fix the state file problem.. I just created the folder and file, and it stopped throwing the error. Thanks

Bah, config parsing can be a b*tch!

Putting 'pattern' and 'folder' on a single line won't work, this breaks the config parser. I'll think of something.
For now, please put these parameters on separate lines (the parser is specifically looking for the linebreak).

Other than that, FunFiler was right. 'pattern => "."' only matches a single character. If you want to match anything that a feed gives you, use ".*"

I've been trying to download certain episoded of certain seasons, tried every combination but it doesn't work! Can somebody help me? I believe the following to be correct:

filter = { pattern => "^Dexter\.S0[5-9]E"
           folder => "/mnt/HD_a2/Series/Dexter/"
         }

EDIT:
Solved... It looks at the <title> and not at the filename in the RSS feed and they where totally different...

Last edited by Frans (2010-10-11 19:31:17)

sekatsim wrote:

Ok, I've got the entries coming through in the log again, but I'm back to:

[10/10/06 10:56:03] ../src/automatic.c, 384: Found new download: House 4x15 [720P - HDTV - DIMENSION] (http://torrent.zoink
../src/torrent.c, 124: Error uploading torrent: no method name

Is this an error with communicating with transmission? It is running, and transmission-remote works.

I wrote you a private message last week or so, did you get it? I'll need a copy of your automatic.conf so I can figure out what's going on.