Litepodder v1.0.0 for Popcorn Hour A-100/A-110/B-110 (podcast downloader)

[philofred]

I am proud to announce the release of Litepodder v1.0.0 for 100 Series, a podcast downloader for NMT.
Litepodder is available in NMT Community Software Installer. Download here
It is a good alternative to iTunes or Juice as your NMT runs 24/7 and then can be triggered at any time.

Please see the readme.txt text file provided in directory /share/Apps/Litepodder/ or check the wiki http://networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index...itepodder.
One thing to remind: when you update the download scheduling, you must restart the application with NMT CSI.

Note that the web site http://www.litepodder.net/ is active but not created yet.
Any comment and feedback are welcomed.

[ricocarlos]

excellent

[Wego]

The standard busybox installed on my A-110 hasn't commands like dirname, tr or pgrep. So i'm getting errors after starting litepodder.sh or daemonscript.sh. Do i have to install a more enhanced busybox version to get it working?

[philofred]

(06-22-2009 07:28 PM)Wego Wrote:  The standard busybox installed on my A-110 hasn't commands like dirname, tr or pgrep. So i'm getting errors after starting litepodder.sh or daemonscript.sh. Do i have to install a more enhanced busybox version to get it working?

I have installed Telnetd 1.14.1, available in NMT CSI.

[Wego]

(06-22-2009 07:39 PM)philofred Wrote:  I have installed Telnetd 1.14.1, available in NMT CSI.

That does the trick

Btw. thanks for this application. I'm glad i don't need to have to use an external podcatcher on my PC anymore.

[Ger Teunis]

Thanks fred, good work!

[Pessimal]

Seems to work fine, no problems so far with 20 audio and 2 video podcasts.

edit:
I'm not a linux expert but in your scheduling.txt file it says:
# Every 4 hours
# * */4 * * *

shouldn't it rather be:
00 */4 * * *

the other one means every minute for sixty minutes every four hours no?

[Miqual]

Uuhmmm...I need som help

I installed Litepodder using CSI.
In the "Settings" folder I updated "podcasts.txt" and "scheduling.txt"
Restarted Litepodder from CSI

Anything I'm missing?

In the readme it says something about "Cron" which should trigger Litepodder. Is this a program I need to install?

Do I need to manually create the output folders I have specified in the podcasts.txt file?

The default path specified in podcasts "/share/podcast/content" should that structure already exist? -because I can't see it.

/Michael

[philofred]

(06-23-2009 05:47 PM)Pessimal Wrote:  Seems to work fine, no problems so far with 20 audio and 2 video podcasts.

edit:
I'm not a linux expert but in your scheduling.txt file it says:
# Every 4 hours
# * */4 * * *

shouldn't it rather be:
00 */4 * * *

the other one means every minute for sixty minutes every four hours no?

You are right, bad entry. I will fix it. Thanks for the feedback.

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(06-24-2009 12:51 PM)Miqual Wrote:  Uuhmmm...I need som help

I installed Litepodder using CSI.
In the "Settings" folder I updated "podcasts.txt" and "scheduling.txt"
Restarted Litepodder from CSI

Anything I'm missing?

In the readme it says something about "Cron" which should trigger Litepodder. Is this a program I need to install?

Do I need to manually create the output folders I have specified in the podcasts.txt file?

The default path specified in podcasts "/share/podcast/content" should that structure already exist? -because I can't see it.

/Michael

You described what you have done, but not the results... I suppose then there is nothing done.
Could you copy paste the scheduling entries you set? The ones without #.
And do you expect a trigger just after the restart or what?
Just a note: there is no trigger just after the restart, the triggers are only based on your scheduling.
You could also check the Litepodder service is started at the end of the text file service.log in /share/Apps/Litepodder/logs directory.
About triggers, you can check in triggers directory.

[Wego]

Litepodder is working great so far. But i have a little feature request Litepodder leaves subfolders in the download directory even if they are empty. To get a better overview of what podcasts i've to watch, i'd like to get rid of all empty folders. As a quick hack i've added a "rmdir /share/Pocdcast/*" at the end of litepodder.sh. Maybe you can add an optional settings, which allows to clean up the download folder after downloads are complete.

[Miqual]

(06-24-2009 01:19 PM)philofred Wrote:  

(06-24-2009 12:51 PM)Miqual Wrote:  Uuhmmm...I need som help

I installed Litepodder using CSI.
In the "Settings" folder I updated "podcasts.txt" and "scheduling.txt"
Restarted Litepodder from CSI

Anything I'm missing?

In the readme it says something about "Cron" which should trigger Litepodder. Is this a program I need to install?

Do I need to manually create the output folders I have specified in the podcasts.txt file?

The default path specified in podcasts "/share/podcast/content" should that structure already exist? -because I can't see it.

/Michael

You described what you have done, but not the results... I suppose then there is nothing done.
Could you copy paste the scheduling entries you set? The ones without #.
And do you expect a trigger just after the restart or what?
Just a note: there is no trigger just after the restart, the triggers are only based on your scheduling.
You could also check the Litepodder service is started at the end of the text file service.log in /share/Apps/Litepodder/logs directory.
About triggers, you can check in triggers directory.

You're right. I forgot to mention what actually happened....nothing happened

I wanted to set the scheduling to check for new podcasts every 20 min. -after an hour nothing had happened.

The triggers folder inside the settings folder is empty!

This is what's inside scheduling.txt:
# Examples

# Every hour past 15 minutes
# 15 * * * *
# Every 20 minutes
# */20 * * * *
# Every day at 04:00 (am)
# 00 04 * * *
# Every 4 hours
# * */4 * * *
# Every Wednesday at 17:45
# 45 17 * * wed

# default setting every day at 03:00 (am)
# 00 03 * * *

# Every 20 minutes
*/20 * * * *

This is my podcasts:
/podcast/SoEinDing | http://vpodcast.dr.dk/feeds/soeindingrss.xml | all

This is the last part from the log:
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 09:58:41 ========
======== Stopping litepodder v0.4.0 service - begin 2009-06-24 10:17:24 ========
kill: you need to specify whom to kill
kill: you need to specify whom to kill
kill: cannot kill pid 3154: No such process
kill: cannot kill pid 3155: No such process
remove the scheduling from crontab
crontab dump set back:
======== Stopping litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 10:17:25 ========
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - begin 2009-06-24 10:17:27 ========
create user default settings
podcasts.txt already exists, do not overwrite it
general.txt already exists, do not overwrite it
scheduling.txt already exists, do not overwrite it
backup initial crontab to file
/share/Apps/Litepodder/settings/crontab_backup already exists, do not overwrite it
change ownership of user content to be removed by user
add the litepodder scheduling to crontab if there is no entry already

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
*/20 * * * *
/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 10:17:28 ========

[philofred]

(06-24-2009 02:04 PM)Wego Wrote:  Litepodder is working great so far. But i have a little feature request Litepodder leaves subfolders in the download directory even if they are empty. To get a better overview of what podcasts i've to watch, i'd like to get rid of all empty folders. As a quick hack i've added a "rmdir /share/Pocdcast/*" at the end of litepodder.sh. Maybe you can add an optional settings, which allows to clean up the download folder after downloads are complete.

I do not understand if you are talking about the download directory (if set in the settings) or the podcasts repositories.

Anyway there could be two settings:
- one to delete the download directory (e.g. incomplete downloads) at the end of trigger
- one to delete the empty podcasts directories because the user have read and deleted the items in the meantime
Thanks, I will add that to my todo list.

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Quote:

(06-24-2009 02:24 PM)Miqual Wrote:  You described what you have done, but not the results... I suppose then there is nothing done.
Could you copy paste the scheduling entries you set? The ones without #.
And do you expect a trigger just after the restart or what?
Just a note: there is no trigger just after the restart, the triggers are only based on your scheduling.
You could also check the Litepodder service is started at the end of the text file service.log in /share/Apps/Litepodder/logs directory.
About triggers, you can check in triggers directory.

You're right. I forgot to mention what actually happened....nothing happened

I wanted to set the scheduling to check for new podcasts every 20 min. -after an hour nothing had happened.

The triggers folder inside the settings folder is empty!

This is what's inside scheduling.txt:
# Examples

# Every hour past 15 minutes
# 15 * * * *
# Every 20 minutes
# */20 * * * *
# Every day at 04:00 (am)
# 00 04 * * *
# Every 4 hours
# * */4 * * *
# Every Wednesday at 17:45
# 45 17 * * wed

# default setting every day at 03:00 (am)
# 00 03 * * *

# Every 20 minutes
*/20 * * * *

This is my podcasts:
/podcast/SoEinDing | http://vpodcast.dr.dk/feeds/soeindingrss.xml | all

This is the last part from the log:
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 09:58:41 ========
======== Stopping litepodder v0.4.0 service - begin 2009-06-24 10:17:24 ========
kill: you need to specify whom to kill
kill: you need to specify whom to kill
kill: cannot kill pid 3154: No such process
kill: cannot kill pid 3155: No such process
remove the scheduling from crontab
crontab dump set back:
======== Stopping litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 10:17:25 ========
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - begin 2009-06-24 10:17:27 ========
create user default settings
podcasts.txt already exists, do not overwrite it
general.txt already exists, do not overwrite it
scheduling.txt already exists, do not overwrite it
backup initial crontab to file
/share/Apps/Litepodder/settings/crontab_backup already exists, do not overwrite it
change ownership of user content to be removed by user
add the litepodder scheduling to crontab if there is no entry already

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh

/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
*/20 * * * *
/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 10:17:28 ========

I think I am getting it: what did you use to edit the scheduling.txt file?
I guess there are chars at the beginning of the file that are screwing the entry to crontab.
Could you save the text file in ASCII or ANSI only please and retry?

One more thing: I am not sure about the validity of your podcast directory, should it begin with /share if you want to save in the local hard drive? Not sure. And be careful to the case sensitivity of directories, the existing podcast directory is Podcast (if you wanted to use it).

As a lesson, I must add a parser for scheduling.txt to avoid this kind of problem. Thanks.

[Miqual]

(06-24-2009 02:44 PM)philofred Wrote:  I think I am getting it: what did you use to edit the scheduling.txt file?
I guess there are chars at the beginning of the file that are screwing the entry to crontab.
Could you save the text file in ASCII or ANSI only please and retry?

One more thing: I am not sure about the validity of your podcast directory, should it begin with /share if you want to save in the local hard drive? Not sure. And be careful to the case sensitivity of directories, the existing podcast directory is Podcast (if you wanted to use it).

As a lesson, I must add a parser for scheduling.txt to avoid this kind of problem. Thanks.

I now deleted the scheduling.txt and podcasts.txt and had Litepodder recreate them to ensure the correct format. I opened them in notepad and added the textlines from my previous post, but changed the output path to:

/share/Podcast/SoEinDing | http://vpodcast.dr.dk/feeds/soeindingrss.xml | all

I saved the documents as ANSI formatted.

I went to the Podcast folder and created a "SoEinDing" folder.

Started CIS and made a restart of Litepodder. I checked the log which also had logged the restart.

Then I waited for 45 min. and nothing happened.

Any new ideas?

[Wego]

(06-24-2009 02:44 PM)philofred Wrote:  I do not understand if you are talking about the download directory (if set in the settings) or the podcasts repositories.

Anyway there could be two settings:
- one to delete the download directory (e.g. incomplete downloads) at the end of trigger
- one to delete the empty podcasts directories because the user have read and deleted the items in the meantime
Thanks, I will add that to my todo list.

---

I'm talking about the podcasts directories. I've subscribed to 11 podcasts at the moment. After i've watched a podcast, i delete the specific podcast folder. But on every trigger ALL 11 directories are created, even if there isn't a new epidode and nothing was downloaded. So i have to check all folders for new episodes to watch. That's why i suggested a "cleanup" feature.

[philofred]

(06-24-2009 04:47 PM)Miqual Wrote:  I now deleted the scheduling.txt and podcasts.txt and had Litepodder recreate them to ensure the correct format. I opened them in notepad and added the textlines from my previous post, but changed the output path to:

/share/Podcast/SoEinDing | http://vpodcast.dr.dk/feeds/soeindingrss.xml | all

I saved the documents as ANSI formatted.

I went to the Podcast folder and created a "SoEinDing" folder.

Started CIS and made a restart of Litepodder. I checked the log which also had logged the restart.

Then I waited for 45 min. and nothing happened.

Any new ideas?

Could you post again the end of service.log please.
If you add only one entry in scheduling.txt, the log should be like that:

Code:

add the litepodder scheduling to crontab if there is no entry already
*/20 * * * * /share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
======== Starting litepodder v0.4.0 service - end 2009-06-24 10:17:28 ========

There should be only one line specifying your entry.
And send me your scheduling.txt file to the email mentioned in the readme.txt as I can check the content, thanks.

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(06-24-2009 04:55 PM)Wego Wrote:  I'm talking about the podcasts directories. I've subscribed to 11 podcasts at the moment. After i've watched a podcast, i delete the specific podcast folder. But on every trigger ALL 11 directories are created, even if there isn't a new epidode and nothing was downloaded. So i have to check all folders for new episodes to watch. That's why i suggested a "cleanup" feature.

OK, understood, I will create the podcast directory if and only if there is downloaded item to store in it.