I’m currently migrating to nzbdrone v2 from sickbeard
Here is a couple note from my experience (I’m not sure how to post on trello)
• BUG : m2ts extension are not recognized
• BUG : iso extension are not recognized (I like to name my DVD : Series.S01E01-E13…iso)
• BUG : Episode with no air date are ignored from the episode count even if the episode is found on disk
• BUG : Ordering the series by status does not separate the paused and monitored series (might be on purpose)
• FEATURE : Preferred / Required / Ignored word (like couchpotato), In my case DD5 and teevee are word that can help decide which 720p release I want but are not essential
• FEATURE : Keep track somewhere of the release group name (useful for subtitle searching)
• FEATURE : Notify My Android could be nice but pushover is very similar
• FEATURE : Preview Rename (no way I’m going to let a software rename my file without seeing a preview), also does it include sub/nfo/jpg ?
• FEATURE : XBMC metadata creation
• FEATURE : When nzbdrone is unable to parse a video file in my Drone Factory Folder, I’d like to be able to manually parse it from the web ui, instead of having to launch remote desktop and manually rename the file
• FEATURE : MOOOOVIE, which such nice foundation it should not be too hard to add movie functionality
• QUESTION : Can someone explain precisely what the RSS Sync and Update Library button do ?
• QUESTION : Is it possible to add sickbeard index as a newznab indexer ?
• COMMENTARY : At fist I found confusing the missing tab confusing, it feels like the backlog list of sickbeard, but I believe it’s just a list of missing episode. An explanation like on the season pass screen could be nice, maybe with a “Got it” button to hide the label.
• COMMENTARY : I also found confusing the season pass screen. There is no visual confirmation of whats happening when I select a season, maybe opening the season list when selecting a season to get a visual feedback would be nice
Overall very satisfied, nzbdrone is now my main tv show grabber with no looking back except maybe nzb360 which is great with sickbeard.
Also I never dared to install sickbeard for my family and friend, but nzbdrone UI is so nice, I’m seriously considering it.
Almost forgot :
Basic anime support would be awesome :
Basically ignore [group name] at the beginning of the filename and manually bypass the default series name for both searching and parsing
In the longterm anidb would be great but this could help in the mean time
always glad to hear from people that have made the switch.
I really appreciate the feedback, some of those suggestions are really easy to implement and should be done fairly soon but we should be able to get most of them in.
as for RSS Sync, it basically forces NzbDrone to fetch RSS from indexers and check if there is anything it should download.
Update Library: as far as I remember in sickbeard there was an update, and disk scan, update was to refresh info from tvdb and scandisk was to scan your folders for new files. The process was so fast in nzbdrone that we decided not to seperate them. when you press that button we refresh episode info from trakt and scan your drives for new episodes. on my server it takes less than 10s per show.
also, for nzb360. please contact the developers and ask them to add support for nzbdrone. they won’t do it unless their users ask for it.
Great ! I’m glad my suggestion are considered, in case they got lost in the bunch my two favorite are :
• FEATURE : XBMC metadata creation
• FEATURE : When nzbdrone is unable to parse a video file in my Drone Factory Folder, I’d like to be able to manually parse it from the web ui, instead of having to launch remote desktop and manually rename the file
I have contacted nzb360 developer and I hope all of you android fan will do the same
don’t worry, we keep track of all requests on trello.
here are two cards for these features
• BUG : m2ts extension are not recognized (Fixed in develop)
• BUG : iso extension are not recognized (I like to name my DVD : Series.S01E01-E13…iso) (Fixed in develop)
also, I added you to our trello board so you can add new cards for the other features you requested.
I have not made the full switch yet, but I am certainly giving NZBDRONE a full go. I’ll continue to post features that I feel are missing compared to sickbeard, or feature requests as ‘caddish’ has done. So far, amazing product, and I look forward to seeing it evolve further.
BUG: Import Existing Series on Disk - Just gives and error, “NzbDroneErrorPipeline Request Failed: Can’t add root directory that doesn’t exist.” However this series is there and does have files associated with it. FEATURE REQUEST: This goes along with the above, of adding existing series. I would like to tell the app all my TV shows go in folder M:\TV\My Shows, and M:\TV\Wife’s Shows. First off, this can be the default folders for new shows I add, secondly in this case it would then find numerous existing shows, and I could choose to add them to drone or not. COMMENT: I feel the pop-up note on the “Drone Factory” folder should state something more like what it states on the GIT wiki page “Drone Factory - This needs to be the same as the Completed Download Folder (you should never use a folder that contains sorted and renamed episodes)”. I didn’t know what this field was for until I came across that info on GIT. COMMENT: It would be nice if the download file contained some basic install instructions in a text file. I am on windows, and installed as a service (very slick and easy, thank you so much) however I didn’t even know what port to open my browser to until I saw someone using drone in a video on a different website.
I’ll post additional issues as I find them, but I don’t expect there to be too many. I’m glad to see that this is a very active comunity, and I intend on contributing to help it nzbdrone improve. Keep up the great work.
I think the first two notes are because you’re using the recent folder to add your show, but really it’s used like point #2. As for why it says it doesn’t exist, you mentioned running it as a service, is that a mapped network drive? Services don’t play nice with mapped network drives due to how Windows creates them.
Yes, I noticed yesterday that it was very informative, I’ll get that fixed for the next release.
Good point, I think things like that will live on the wiki, but at least information on where the wiki is would be useful.
Well that completely solved my problem. For now I will not run it as a service, but please notify if this issue has been resolved, as I will probably always use network/mapped drives for my media storage. I think this is definitely one for the wiki.
@Maudite you can always use the direct network share address. eg. instead of M:\\TV Shows use the \\\\Server\\TV Shows or whatever the path to the map is.
What @kayone suggested works well, but if you have security on the share it may not work, in that case, \\\\username:password@Server\\TV Shows might work for you.
