SABnzbd spk Manual

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Installation

Download and install sabnzbd-version.spk to your Synology NAS.
Create a new share named downloads, give full access (read/write) to the user sabnzbd and to yourself to access the content.
To access SABnzbd web interface, go through the Synology Disk Station manager, the new icon in the DSM menu (might need a refresh), or directly through it address: http://yournas:8080/.
Upon the first start, you will be guided through the SABnzbd setup wizard.
SABnzbd will create the folders /volume1/downloads/complete and /volume1/downloads/incomplete. The first one is for finished downloads. It shall be accessible from the network by every one who can access the fore mentioned share. The second folder won’t be accessible to anyone. It contains parts of the assets currently being downloaded. As long as every thing is fine, you don’t need to go in there.

Technical Details

At installation time, a sabnzbd user will be created. It will be removed along with the package when it get uninstalled. SABnzbd is run as this user.
The configuration file is /usr/local/var/sabnnzbd/config.ini. It is advised to stop SABnzbd before editing it by hand.
To run SABnzbd from the command line to see the log in real time, use
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/SABnzbd.sh console from a shell.

#1 | Written by niewiesznic about 1 year ago.

HI!
Do You plan to make couch potato and sickbeard spk’s also?
That would be great.
Take care,

P.
#2 | Written by Sav about 1 year ago.

I second this.
Any ideas?
#3 | Written by zebulon about 1 year ago.

@niewiesznic & Sav: I took a look to sickbeard a few days ago. It’s written in Python and doesn’t seem to be that complicated to package and install. But to be consistent with other spk I provide, I would need some advices on what to configure at install time to make it as easy as possible to use, as I don’t know these software very well. I know how to link it directly to the API of SABnzbd, to use authentication and thing like that, but is there any other interesting stuff to configure at install time? Same goes to couch potato. Any help or tips appreciated.
#4 | Written by Sav about 1 year ago.

Hey Mate.

If I remember when I installed CP and SB it was pretty straight forward.
I did use some of the post processing functionality, but its all mostly defualt.

If you want mate, you can drop me an email and I can run through how I would set it up with you, even provide the config files I am currently using.

Sav
#5 | Written by San about 10 months ago.

Hi,

I am trying to edit the config.ini file to change the directories from /Volume1/Downloads to /Volume2/Downloads. This doesn’t work through the web GUI. I tried stopping SAB, then editing the file over telnet using root and saving the changes. However, when I reboot the DS the changes are gone. Same when editing the file using the Config Editor package. Any ideas how to change the ini file without losing the changes on a reboot?

Thanks
#6 | Written by Xice about 9 months ago.

I’ve got some kind of error…

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/_cprequest.py”, line 618, in respond
cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py”, line 25, in __call__
return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/sabnzbd/interface.py”, line 397, in index
File “cheetah__usr_local_sabnzbd_share_SABnzbd_interfaces_Plush_templates_main_tmpl_1305548665_66_77817.py”, line 175, in respond
NotFound: cannot find ‘have_rss_defined’
#7 | Written by Frank about 9 months ago.

for info: after I had performed the update, I lost the bar at the top of the page. after I’ve deleted the cookies, this problem was solved.
#8 | Written by strangere about 7 months ago.

I noticed after removal and re-install that there still were warnings in queue.

Maybe something to keep an eye for when building new package.
#9 | Written by IndoDanny about 7 months ago.

I installed on Volume2. Will this give problems. Sabnzb won’t start.
#10 | Written by Erwin about 6 months ago.

Hi,
I have on old package (0.5.6) installed on my syno.
Should I remove it befor instlling this new version, or can I install over the existing one ?
#11 | Written by Erwin about 6 months ago.

sorry for the silly question above.
The “Upgrade” button from the synology package management interface works great !
#12 | Written by Ouch about 6 months ago.

For some reason I cannot get past step 3, I just keep being taken to a page with “Sorry, the page you are looking for is not found.”. Ive tried going direct to the NAS IP, different port numbers, https instead of http and nothing seems to work. Anyone else experienced this issue?
#13 | Written by Ouch about 6 months ago.

Oops figured it out. Didnt realise I had to run the package after installing it
#14 | Written by YEAHroen about 5 months ago.

‘user home service’ must be running, I got this error: can’t chdir to home directory ‘/var/services/homes/sabnzbd’
#15 | Written by zebulon about 5 months ago.

@YEAHroen: No, this warning is harmless. The package is run using “su” to change the user, which in turn complain about the missing home directory.
#16 | Written by synoman about 5 months ago.

After installation sabnzbd runs fine on my syno and I can access it in the browser. When I try later on (after many days and nightly powerdown/morning up’s) I cannot reach sabnzbd from the browser.
It Appears that the sabnzbd deamon is not running.
How can I check if the sabnzbd deamon is running? How come that I can not access it in the browser?
#17 | Written by gamelover about 5 months ago.

FYI on my diskstation the Downloads directory has a capital D so the “/volume1/downloads/…” path gave me no end of errors until I figured that out and switched the case of that D.
#18 | Written by BigDoom about 5 months ago.

Little question, because you are actually updating your packages and I like them
Is it possible to install your Sabnzbd over/to replace the mertymade version?

I really don’t want to reinstall and configure everything since I’m using a lot of RSS feeds with different kinds of parsing expressions :s
#19 | Written by lumo about 5 months ago.

Hi, had it running after moving to DSM3.2 but now, when I start Sabnzbd only get a ‘page cannot be found’ for: /webman/3rdparty/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.cgi, any idea what is wrong ?
#20 | Written by Karb0ne about 5 months ago.

Hi, can you work on a Newsnab spk? Newsnab work great with your spk’s.
#21 | Written by Hugues about 5 months ago.

Hi

I have installed sabnzbd-version.spk
But I cannot visualize or access such a directory as “/volume1/downloads/complete ”
It is even not visible in the DSM File Browser !

Installation and setting up of sabnzbd was OK. It actually works since it managed to download my first nzb. But the downloaded result is not visible.

whad did I miss ? Some kind of access to unvisible directories ?

In SABNZB the “Config” tab , sub-tab “dossier/directories” : I have defined directories that I can access but they are not filled by sabnzb)
#22 | Written by Tom about 4 months ago.

I get an error that it can’t install because port 8080 is in use.
If I go to port 8080 on my server I get the following:

“Unrecoverable error in the server.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/_cpwsgi.py”, line 78, in setapp
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/_cpwsgi.py”, line 233, in get_request
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/_cptree.py”, line 112, in get_serving
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py”, line 147, in publish
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/process/plugins.py”, line 514, in acquire_thread
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py”, line 147, in publish
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/sabnzbd/__init__.py”, line 180, in connect_db
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/sabnzbd/database.py”, line 50, in get_history_handle
File “/usr/local/sabnzbd/share/SABnzbd/sabnzbd/database.py”, line 66, in __init__
OperationalError: unable to open database file”

Short background; my synology 410J crashed during SHR expansion and lost it’s raid configuration. (I was expanding to a 4 disk raid and after the crash it suddenly had disk 3 & 4 in a raid 1 and disk 1 & 2 on “initialized” not being part of any raid)

I lost all data and started with building a new raid. All my packages still displayed in my package manager, but with errors.
I removed all packages (or reference to it) using the package manager.

When I now try to install it gives me these errors.

Any idea how to fix this? Can I change the config of your .pkg to use a different port or should I manually remove all references to the previously installed packages?

Any help is appreciated!

Tom
#23 | Written by bleze about 4 months ago.

Please make support for volume2 users. I do not have a volume1. This means no completed or incomplete folders. Also SAB shows 0 bytes free.
Thanks
#24 | Written by neosushi about 3 months ago.

Please support volume2 also…

Stuck with my new hard drive and SABNZBD …. it’s a shame :s
#25 | Written by uncola about 3 months ago.

I installed this on a ds1511+ and I didn’t have to make an sabnzbd user.. but I did have to create a share named downloads.. I was getting “error: cannot create blah\incomplete” errors until I did. thanks for the work creating the package, it’s working great
#26 | Written by Adrian about 3 months ago.

I keep getting errors and it says disk full.
#27 | Written by mobelby about 3 months ago.

I’ve tried with latest two versions of DSM3.2 (current is 1955) and SABnzbd fails to install and you get the following message:

“Failed to download “SABnzbd”. Port 8080 configured for this package is either used by another service or reserved for system. Please disable or modify the conflicting service, or contact the developer to modify the package configuration”.

I’ve checked all my DSM settings and I can’t find anything else that’s using 8080. I also checked the synology website (http://www.synology.com/support/faq_show.php?q_id=299) but again I can’t see what is conflicting.

Any chance of changing the default port used in this package to something other than 8080 ?

I would love to be able to use it on my Synology DS1010+ running DSM 3.2
#28 | Written by dejjem about 1 month ago.

“Written by gamelover about 4 months ago. FYI on my diskstation the Downloads directory has a capital D so the “/volume1/downloads/…” path gave me no end of errors until I figured that out and switched the case of that D.”

THANK YOU for this comment. I was lost until I read this & it fixed up the errors immediately.
#29 | Written by Erik Gaudin about 4 weeks ago.

The application seem to have problems when finish download something that contain accent in the filename or foldername (é à ê,…)
I can’t rename, delete, move the file and folder… it stick there !
#30 | Written by uncola about 4 weeks ago.

maybe these instructions should be added to the sabnzbd setup wizard for synology.. every time I reinstall I totally forget to create a share called downloads also it seems like it works even if I don’t add a user called sabnzbd
#31 | Written by dennis henrik about 3 weeks ago.

hello, i installed the sabnzbd package 2 weeks ago, now a username and password ist required. i changed nothing. can anyone tell me the username and password ?

tanks. Dennis

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