Frustratingly little documentation isn’t a good sign.
OK, so I installed… now what? I’m guessing there’s a localhost:someport I’m supposed to go to… but there’s absolutely no documentation regarding that.
Give it to me clearly please… how do I “launch” on Ubuntu?
Based on the title I thought this was a spam post, luckily I checked it, a more descriptive subject would have been helpful.
Drone outputs the port its running on when starting up, which by default is port 8989. Start drone (per the wiki: https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/Installation) and then navigate to localhost:8989
Since you feel the documentation is lacking it would be great if you could add more, feel free to ask any questions you have.
“Drone outputs the port its running on when starting up”
Ok… i never saw that because I skipped to the auto start section.
Really… its basic information that should be present and obvious on the wiki. Don’t expect new members to figure it out and then update your wiki, and don’t expect existing members to look out for noobs… bridge the gap and update your own wiki. Just my opinion.
I decided to try Sick Beard instead due to a) lack of documentation here and b) a bug in the first minute of using it. Its not that I’m saying this software isn’t ready for me, just that I’m not ready for it. I’m new to all this. The bug? Very first screen it shows available space on my drive… and it shows roughly 100GB instead of the some 5.8TB available.
Maybe once I’m more familiar and Sick Beard has failed me in some way, I’ll find my way back here. Thanks.
Alright, I added it to the installation page on the wiki, you’re right it should have been there.
As for adding things to the documentation, I never expected you to find it out on your own, it not being there was an oversight, I was hoping that once you started using drone you would have more questions and ask them (if they weren’t on the wiki/forums) and then help by adding it to the wiki to help other new users in the future. I didn’t think it was too out of the norm since thats why we opted for a wiki instead of a static page, anyone is able to add/remove comment to help improve it.
Regarding the bug, how is that media attached to your system (is it a mounted share/attached disks)? Doesn’t look like drone currently supports reporting the free space for a mounted share on Ubuntu, I’ll add that to Trello.
mounted LVM (three 2TB drives)
wikis… great idea that never seems to work. Partly because people are lazy, but mostly (I think) because some people don’t feel comfortable sharing info that they don’t want to spread as authoritative (eg. Hey, this worked for me because I hacked it together but I really doubt it is a reliable solution for others) and some people, unfortunately, do (that shouldn’t). Those that really are in the know… often don’t bother (why should they… they know!).
Other than huge sites like wikipedia… I’ve yet to find a wiki that works. Its the frustrating part of freeware… nobody’s paid to do the tedious tasks that make software function well (ie. documentation!)
I’d say I would help out… but I’m just learning. I have no business at all writing something down that some poor soul may actually try to follow later.
Thanks, I’ll do some digging into the disk space issue.
Definitely was a case of I already know, and glossed over the fact that no one else does (unless they know where to look). FYI the autostart wiki page for Ubuntu started as “I got it to work” (hack) and turned into what it is now.
Documentation is always a pain point, even when developers get paid they don’t want to do it 
If you ever feel up to helping out let me know, it truly does help having someone from outside of the development team assist with that, since they don’t know the product as well, though it doesn’t excuse us from the having basic documentation.
Thanks for the feedback!
I’m back 
I managed to get my server running with SB. It works pretty well, but a few things don’t and the answers I find on Google all say the same thing: Try nzbdrone!
I’m a little more familiar with how things work now, so hopefully I don’t run into any problems. Wish me luck! If all goes well, I’ll try to make the commitment to help out with documentation as I learn.
Is this a problem at all?:
Awesome, let us know if you need anything, on IRC if there needs to be more back and forth dialog.
Good luck!
I guess it is a problem! Nothing works while that error’s there. I eventually had to: sudo killall mono
hmm…
edit: weird, OK I restarted it and I get the same error, but not it appears to work. Odd
I still have that Disk Space problem. It shows:
/mnt/bigdisk (/mnt/bigdisk) 96.8 GB 109.6 GB
But that’s not at all correct. That disk (a mounted LVM of 3 drives) has over 5TB of space available. The data it shows is consistent with the drive that Ubuntu is installed on, but that has nothing to do with that drive.
The signalr error isn’t a problem, if its hanging its for another reason. We’ve had some reports of mono crashing, usually when doing a bunch of things at once (adding a number of shows in quick succession), haven’t tracked it down yet.
The disk space check is a little naive right now, it needs to be improved.
In your example, it lists the drive, but shows it with the free space of another drive?
yes, that’s correct.
There are three listings:
/ (/) 96.8 GB 109.6 GB
/boot/efi (/boot/efi) 96.8 GB 109.6 GB
/mnt/bigdisk (/mnt/bigdisk) 96.8 GB 109.6 GB
on my system, the first two are on the same 120GB SSD. The third is a logical volume with three 2TB drives.
As long as it doesn’t cause me a problem (like at 100GB it fails with a “not enough space”) then I don’t really care. Why’s it even showing those volumes? It probably shouldn’t show anything until a download location is defined, and then it should show that location.
It shows the hard drives in the system by default. Makes sense now why its showing the free space as it is. If you filled up the SSD it would probably have an issue and say it ran out of free space, obviously thats wrong. I see why its wrong, but not yet how to fix it.
But if I don’t fill up the SSD… I’m fine, right? Even if I store > 100GB on that 6TB drive?
Right now its practically empty.
I don’t expect the SSD to ever fill up. Nothing’s stored on it but system files, etc.
Based on the information I have now, thats what I expect, as long as the SSD has free space then drone should see free space, obviously its wrong and needs to be fixed, but shouldn’t break anything.
fair enough.
Man am I glad I came back! OK, there were a few hicups and a couple weirdnesses… but overall, HOLY CRAP am I impressed with this! Where’s the “support us” link?
Awesome! Glad you’re a happy with it. We have a donation link in the header of the app itself (Red heart), we do need a link on the site though.
Lol, yeah, I just came to post the “duh” once I saw the giant heart again