Category Archives: dev

i got some free time

i don’t know if anyone is still using this and because i haven’t coded for it in a long time i am just going to merge the dev branch to master in the next days it might all break and what not but i need some point to start from :/

if you thought this project is dead and deserted it, thats okay. personally i still use it exclusively and it does its job pretty good … but of course there are issues that i noticed myself and thats what i’ll be working on. like the different scheduler task die and it just stops searching of checking downloads.

TV, Trakt and PostProcessing

TV plugin is now available in the in the Main Plugin Repo

And so is a Trakt Provider for TV. And a special PostProcessor called Episode Mover that accepts a python format string. Currently only one root/parent Folder for all TV Shows is supported.

I would also advice that you set the Default status of TV to “ignore” otherwise XDM will go haywire and start searching snatching.

Application programming interface

I dont know who wrote it, i thought it was a comment on the Reddit post i made but i cant find it. But what it said was something like this:

I use this App on Android to connect to CP and SB and i love the App, will it be possible to continue using this App with XDM?

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Saving and saving time

I thought that the time it took to save the settings was wo long, in fact i knew it will take forever (relative) to save the settings at time of writing the logic for it. Continue reading →

RSS feeds or no RSS feeds… Not now !

Now SB and CP use the recent additions RSS feeds of the providers. THis is done to minimise the requests on the providers.
I would love to do this too, its easy to get the rss feed for the newznab provider but how should be know what was returned in the RSS feed.

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What kind of Plugins are there so far?

DownloadType: A simple description of a download type.
Downloader: These plugins provider the connection to the downloader programs
Indexer: These plugins provide connection to the sites that have information on releases
Notifier: These plugins provide means to send notification to third party services or other program’s on certain events
Provider: These plugins connect to databases and create elements based on the media type they work for.
PostProcessor: These plugins move rename or do whatever they like with a given path and element.
System: Well there is only one of this kind and maybe there will never be more. The system config is a plugin of this type
Filter: These plugins can filter found downloads as they wish.
MediaAdder: These plugins can add elements. From various sources e.g. Trakt
MediaTypeManager: These plugins are the core of XDM. These plugins define the structure of a media type and provide functions to save and store them. The look is also defined here.