Title says it all… I only want to check for new episodes during the night.
Why? If its a bandwidth thing, use SABnzbd and use its scheduling, with the issues due to DMCA take downs I don’t see this being a popular feature and likely not worth the development time.
It’s a bandwidth thing. Sabnzbd doesn’t support scheduling per category afaik.
How does the timer you can set work? Does it start counting when the service starts or is it based off a specific time?
Not really a question for these forums, a quick search yields this: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-scheduling
I meant the RSS Sync interval setting in nzbdrone.
Oh, it runs based on the last time it ran, after the interval has passed it will be queued to run again, if multiple jobs are queued at the same time it might get delayed a bit, but it won’t run any sooner than that interval.
Example:
Interval is 15 minutes
Runs at 11:00am
Runs again after 11:15am
If you then shutdown NzbDrone for a day, it would run again ASAP after startup because the last run time + interval has been passed.
kk, thanks!
I realize this is an old post that I’m reviving, but I’d like to go at it from a different angle. I just discovered NzbDrone and am loving it so far. It seems like a far superior and reliable way to get shows than the torrent/RSS semi-solution I have set up now. There are shows, though, that I record from OTA broadcast using Windows Media Center, and that are converted to MKV and have their commercials removed by MCEBuddy overnight. This is scheduled to happen overnight so that the processing doesn’t interrupt any playback for the evening.
So here’s my “in a perfect world”… I would like to add the shows that I record to NzbDrone for two reasons: 1) so I can see all shows (downloaded and recorded) in the calendar, and 2) so that in the off-chance a show doesn’t record (power outage, etc.) it will be downloaded. But I’ve bough a block usenet account, so I don’t want to download a show that I’ve also recorded. If I could schedule NzbDrone to start its RSS check AFTER I know my recorded shows have been processed, then I wouldn’t waste download bytes.
Bottom line is that I would love to see even a basic ability to specify the start and stop time for the RSS scan. Thanks much.
Just noticed that there is an API. Another possible solution is to expose the RSS sync as a command and allow the timed sync to be turned off. Then an advanced user could script when the RSS sync would occur. Just a thought.
Yeah, that would be feasible, added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/CJLiuMcy/651-disable-rss-sync
Great news…thank you.
Im hijacking this thread instead of making a new one 
First off, it’s my first post. Thanks for a great app. Love it. Even changed from SB to ND, mostly because of the slick UI.
Anyway, my problem:
I live in Norway, that means my timezone is different from that in the US. Meaning that when the series air in the US, it’s nighttime in Norway.
This used to be awsome, because my internet connection is slow, so this way SB would start downloading episodes in the middle of the night with my slow*ss internet, and the episodes would be ready for when I woke up.
Now however, in ND there doesn’t seem to be any automatic backlog search, whenever a episode is aired, it just goes to my “Wanted” list, and I have to manually search for it. By manually, I mean, press the button. Instead of being ready to be watched, with my slow connection, I have to wait about an hour for a 450mb episode to get ready. Which kind of sucks.
Also, my wanted list has like 6000 entries, so I can’t just press “download all wanted”, I have to check the episodes, and then press “search checked episodes”. That’s not a big problem, but automatically downloading episodes during the night would be a nice feature.
It could just check like every 2 hours or something, I don’t need it to check every 15 minutes. Hell, my computer sleeps most of the night, and automatically wakes every 3 hours to check if there is anything new going on. If not, it goes back to sleep for another 3 hours after 30 minutes.
With SB imy computer would wake up, wait 10 minutes, check if new episodes were out, if not, go back to sleep after another 20 minutes. If there were, it would download them, then sleep. And then when I woke up, everything would be nice and done.
So basically, a backlogsearch, with long interwalls, so it doesn’t spam the nzbsites api checks, or slow down nzbdrone servermachines.Like a minimal waitingtime of 1-2 hours.
Thanks for any consideration, it would be really helpful, for me and probably allot of other people with slow internet.
PS: Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to make sure I explained it in a way you could understand.
- donkeyhigh
@donkeyhigh it will grab them automatically (its the core of what drone does), but it will only grab them if the computer is on. By default the automatic scan happens every 15 minutes, this requires that the episodes still be on the recent feed from the indexer, which is the last 100, but time wise it varies.
Either leave your computer on or force a RSS sync during after waking the computer up, either will work as long as the episodes are still on the feed, if they’re not you’ll have to search for them, at least until this is implemented: https://trello.com/c/CbaQLXgj/353-automatically-search-for-missing-episodes-if-x-time-has-passed-between-rss-syncs
Thanks for the quick responce.
I’ll try and make it force a RSS sync during the wake time, as I don’t like to leave my computer on at night. Thanks for the info.
