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Can't get newsbin 6.60 to integrate with sickbeard or couchpotato. It says " ERROR Remote NZB Interface: Unable to bind Remote control Socket". What is wrong. Please help. No matter how I fill out the "Remote NZB Form" it always says that. Except for the integration, Newsbin works great_ _ _ like it always has. It's a wonderful program, I love it. The integration would make it even better. Please help.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

What's the "port" set to? When you make changes to this you need to restart for them to take. I might change the port to "8100" then restart. Then change the port on SB to match the 8100 port Newsbin is listening one. That error means something else is already using the port Newsbin is trying to use.

Make sure you're make changes in "Remote NZB Interface" and not "Remote Control".

Thank you for the reply. The port is set to 8081. Sabnzbd is always running in the background. Should I shut it down or uninstall it. It is probably using the port.

"Ports" are completely arbitrary. You can use any one you want as long as nobody else is already listening on it.

In Sickbeard, if you go into Config then "Search Settings".

SABnzbd URL: http://<bla address>:8000/

The bold number has to match what you set in Newsbin. So, set Newsbin to 8100 and restart it. Then change the Sab URL to 8100 too. Use whatever address you already have in there. Only the port changes.

SABnzbd URL: http://<bla address>:8100/

After I restarted Newsbin this was what I see. Newsbin is listening on 8100.

PS C:\Windows\system32> netstat -ntb

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 192.168.10.153:8100 192.168.10.201:61531 TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.10.153:8100 192.168.10.201:61532 TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.10.153:8100 192.168.10.201:61533 ESTABLISHED
[NewsbinPro.exe]
PS C:\Windows\system32>

You have to run a command prompt "As Administrator" to run this command.

I'd disable "Remote Control" while testing this.

Thanks Quade, I really appreciate the help. I followed your instructions and newsbin is listening now. However, I have another problem now. This is what happens: Sickbeard sends newsbin the nzb, Newsbin starts to download but stops at par:41 and hangs there. If I manually feed an nzb to newsbin it works fine, does the hold download. Is this a cache problem? I read the cache thread and none of those things helped.

Thanks

Sounds like there's something up with the download path. I'd probably pause Newsbin. Feed an NZB from SB and then check the download path Newsbin assigns to it. Make sure it's a valid drive and a path that Newsbin is allowed to write to.

You might want to set an unrar path in the Remote NZB options before you do this too. If it seems to be downloading, maybe it can't unrar without a valid unrar path.

Hi Quade, once again I followed your instructions. I filled in the paths in nzb options and everything is running great in both sickbeard and couchpotato. Thanks again for the help and all of the great work you do with newsbin.

Hi Quade, once again I followed your instructions. I filled in the paths in nzb options and everything is running great in both sickbeard and couchpotato. Thanks again for the help and all of the great work you do with newsbin.

Do you think the lack of an unrar path was the problem? If so, I probably need to fix it.

Yes I do. It wouldn't unrar at all until we added the paths in nzb options. Perhaps, adding them there is enough for anyone experiencing the problem I had. As I read through the forum it didn't appear that everyone integrating had my problem. You are doing great work, thanks.

I used Sonarr (like Sickbeard) and I'm 90 % sure I didn't set an unrar path. On vac and unable to verify my settings at home.

The sonarr path is quite different than the SB path so, I'm not shocked by this. The Sonaar code is newer. Sonaar send the complete NZB to Newsbin. SB sends a URL and Newsbin then downloads the NZB. I suspect I default the UnRAR path one mode and don't in the other mode.

Thanks for the feedback.