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More bug fixes. Sonaar support is pretty much done, needs testing.

Summary:

• Sonaar support seems to be fully functional, needs testing. Errors are not reported properly but it otherwise seems to be working well.
• Fixed Local search, it got broken in B9
• Fixed issue with auto-shutdown mode and Newsbin not allowing the PC to enter sleep mode.
• Fixed issue where sorting with "show filenames" on was sorting on complete subject instead.
• Fixed issue where double-clicking a watch topic without a server configured for header downloads would report a no server error.

NOTE: The Download List is incompatible with anything prior to 6.60! We recommend you finish any queued downloads before installing this beta. This applies to the Wish List and Failed Files list too.

More details and the download link are on the Newsbin Beta Page

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For whatever reason, Panda Free Antivirus won't let me run the Beta 11 installer. Had to disable it first. It quarantined the installer as "suspicious".

When I ran a "critical areas" scan with Panda after installing B11, no issues were found.

Good news is local search is back.

Yeah we've been having some issues with some V scanners lately. Always seems to be false positives.

sluciani wrote:For whatever reason, Panda Free Antivirus won't let me run the Beta 11 installer. Had to disable it first. It quarantined the installer as "suspicious".

"Suspicious" sounds like a heuristic hit, all modern AVs have heuristics analysis to supplement the pure signature based hits because many modern viruses are encrypted to the point that there is no signature until after it's already triggered. Exactly what goes in to the heuristics and how it's weighted varies wildly and there's no documentation. There may well be other ways to override heuristics hits in it but your solution works.

It's increasingly common for AVs to include things like "how many times have I seen this before" in their heuristics. While seeing a file for the first time is usually! not enough in itself to trigger a flat out denial but it can make them ultra-suspicious and deny things they would normally accept.

Panda calls themselves "Cloud" anti-virus for a reason, they were one of the pioneers and they still consider it their "main advantage" over some of the others. So it's probably the AV most likely to throw a hissy fit over a file that is rare or ultra-rate! Any NBPro beta builds may well put it in "can I find ANYTHING even remotely suspicious about this executable" mode. Also, the "specimen" may well be uploaded to them for further, much slower but better analysis off-line.

This also means that the behavior may well change over time, it's quite possible that the same B11 installer will now pass Panda AV, it may have seen more examples now and/or have done a deep analysis offline that has moved it to the "safe" category.

You can scan your B11 installer at https://www.virustotal.com/
I get 0/57 on it at VirusTotal right now and that count includes Panda AV...
Jotti virus scan has a different list of AVs and shows 1 hit of 22, but that one is utterly bogus, ClamAV lists PUA.Win32.Packer.BorlandDelphi-1, that one is just ClamAV being silly.

When I click on column headers the arrow changes, the the results not not change at all, Sorting the individual newgroups is fine.

Download list sorting isn't hooked up yet. I haven't figured the best way to make it work yet. Shouldn't be too many betas.

I can get it to work but only if I download to a fixed folder and enable that with Drone Factory. The logs on Sonarr after newsbin downloads the file indicates :Unable to parse episode info from path C:\users\myname\Newsbin\$(NZBFILE)\
I am not using $(NZBFILE) in any of my newsbin paths, neither Main download folder nor folder for NZB files. I am using this setup under Win 10 b10061 with Newsbin Pro 64 b11,

What do you have the unrar folder in the "Remote NZB..." options set to? If you don't have it set, try setting it to something that doesn't include any of the pathing options. Mine's set to "X:\Download" for example.

It was not set. I'll set it and remove the drone factory setting from sonarr.

I changed the code so you don't have to do this in the future. When the download completes I set the fully qualified path into the data I send to Sonarr. So, no matter where it downloads too, sonarr will see the correct path.

Sounds good. Made the changes and kept all download locations separate to be able to diagnose.
1. Trigger a download, sonarr gives to Newsbin and marks item as downloading.
2. Newsbin begins download to NZB download folder, sonarr shows some percent complete not in sync with newsbin
3. Download completes, newsbin unrars to remote unrar folder
4. Sonarr picks it up from remote unrar folder and moves it to correct folder, then deletes remote unrar folder.

Problem- Appears there is an issue with history or queue lists in newsbin that it is sending back to sonarr. I am getting Activity queues in sonarr of past attempts including when it was getting the $(NZBfile) errors plus log errors to that location. I have tried uninstalling sonarr and deleting all residual directories but it comes back so I think it is from newsbin. Do we need a way to wipe remote history? I cannot remove them via sonarr.

2. Newsbin begins download to NZB download folder, sonarr shows some percent complete not in sync with newsbin

Sonarr poles slowly. Maybe every couple minutes. It means with a decent connection speed, you might only get 1 or 2 samples in a single download. I haven't figured out how to make it check more often. That's why progress doesn't track very closely.

I am getting Activity queues in sonarr of past attempts including when it was getting the $(NZBfile) errors plus log errors to that location.

Downloadsv2.db3 in the data folder. If you exit Newsbin and delete this, it'll wipe out, the download, wish, failed and the good list that Newsbin sends to Sonaar when it asks for history. You just have some good listings that contain $(NZBFILE).

That fixed it, thanks.

The Activity Queue never disappears on Sonarr. It continues to show the last downloaded files. It it expecting you to clear the history queue or whatever on newsbin?

When I tested it, it would change count with each successful download. It wasn't very fast because of the slow polling. There are some status icons on the right. You might want to check them. You might need to refresh the display too with a reload. I mean in the web browser.

Don't know how far you want to take this. I hooked up SABnzbd instead of newsbin and observed its behavior. On a 150mb file, it updated sonarr with progress about 3 times. When done Sab moved the file from incomplete to complet, then sonarr picked it and moved it to its correct storage and name. At that point it decremented (removed) its Activity queue for that file. It also did not delete the complete directory as it did with newsbin. I am sure you have seen this but just in case, here is a link to the Sabnzbd api and commands supported.http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/api

I'm just not sure why you get activity items left over after they download and I don't. I've not actually seen it delete from queue or history but I will look closer.

I've been using the API documents but it just tells you how to do things. It's not telling you what Sonarr says to Newsbin.

Version
2.0.0.3004

What version of Sonarr are you running? I spent the day fleshing out the API. Turns out Sonaar doesn't use delete or pause for queue or history or any of the new functions I added (wanted to add them anyway).

Then I fired up Sab and tried a couple downloads and the response was pretty much the same as Newsbin. Only a couple progress bar changes before the file completed. Then the file switched to "Downloaded" in sonarr and the activity item cleared.

In the version you have, make sure you ONLY use username and password. APIKey doesn't work in that version (just fixed it here).

Quade here:

Ugh I fucked up and edited your post instead of posting a reply....

Sorry.

I am using 2.0.0.3004. Sonarr updates automatically. With newbin am only using username and password. I didn't realize you had an api key, did you ever publish that? I will retry sonarr with b12.

The API key can be anything you want as long as it's the same on both ends. API key doesn't work in B12. Will work in B13. You basically use API key OR username and password to access Newsbin. Sonarr requires that you use one or the other. Newsbin doesn't care. It'll use it if you set one.

Are you moving the files out from under Sonarr when it's done? I'm just wondering if the move is happening before Sonarr completes processing.

No, I am letting Sonarr handle the moving and renaming to its final location. Am not touching the files from either NB download to Sonarr handling. Just watching the progress. Still haven't retried B12 yet, but will.

Went back to Win 7 and B12 with Sonarr. As you indicated, all is working correctly and as expected. I will relook at Win 10 setup and see what may be amiss.

That's good. I think there are some configuration gotchas I need to work through too. You might find that B13 works properly in 10