In this article I’ll explain how to setup HellaNZB and HellaDroid. In case your unfamiliar with Helladroid, it is a Android application which utilizes XMLRPC to monitor a running HellaNZB process on a remote server. It can search and add from NewzBin reports to the server, pause/resume, manipulate the queue, abort transfers. It can also soon search NzbMatrix and do the same stuff as with NewzBin. Everything a boy or girl needs to monitor their usenet downloads on the road. The program can be found on the Android Market (for free), source code and apk is also freely available from the projects homepage. I’ll explain in this article how you can get your HellaDroid up and running, and how to configure HellaNZB.
Prerequisites
- HellaNZB installed and running (see either their own webpage, or your GNU/Linux distro’s wiki to get it up and running)
- Android phone using Android 1.6 or newer.
- HellaDroid installed
Configuring HellaNZB
To be able to connect and communicate the HellaNZB server, we need to enable some features in HellaNZB’s .conf.
- Locate your hellanzb.conf, and open it up in your favourite editor. Now change the following lines to your liking (if you don’t have them you can add them)
Hellanzb.CATEGORIZE_DEST = True # Optional Hellanzb.XMLRPC_SERVER = 'localhost' # Don't change this Hellanzb.XMLRPC_PORT = 8765 # You can change this to whatever you want though Hellanzb.XMLRPC_PASSWORD = 'changeme' # If you want Newzbin support, you HAVE to change these as well Hellanzb.NEWZBIN_USERNAME = 'yournewzbinuser' Hellanzb.NEWZBIN_PASSWORD = 'yournewzbinpass'
- Restart your HellaNZB process (if its running, either way start it).
- Now you need to configure your router to allow outside calls to your port 8765 (if you didn’t change it), I won’t go into how you do this, google it (port forwarding).
- OPTIONAL: I recommend using some sort of dynamic dns so you don’t have to remember your external IP all the time, DynDNS.org is such a free service. You can then have hellanzb.homeftp.org or something like that. DynDNS is well documented and covered for both Windows and GNU/Linux (and probably Mac also).
Configuring HellaDroid
This should be pretty straight forward
- Open up HellaDroid, open up menu, select settings and fill in everything.
- When your done, exit the menu (so your back to the main view), hit refresh and if you don’t get any error message everything should work. If didn’t work, try restarting the application. You can now test the application by doing a Newzbin/NzbMatrix search and trying to add a report (either long press a list item, or open one of the list items and press menu and download).
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thanks for your blog:)
i cant get my android to connect to the server. I hvae tried everything, ive opened the ports in my firewall, added the right lines in the config menu, but helladroid just say server not found, check settings.
I have tried using external IP in the config file, localhost as well, nothing works. I remember i got it working a while back, but i dont remember what i did. It was something about the adress, hellanzb:changeme@localhost:8760.
any help is appreciated
Thanks
There is a bug when adding the server settings in HellaDroid, you have to restart the application to get the settings loaded perfectly. This might be the problem in your case. Beside that it seems to be a “PEBCAK”. After configuring everything written in this article it should work.
Can you display Newzbin comments in the detailed search view and can you put an indication of which posts have comments in the Newzbin search view. This would come in handy as i usually look for comments to see what other people say about the file or quality.
Thanks Brian
Hi Brian, I’ve given you an answer at HellaDroid’s project page. http://code.google.com/p/helladroid/issues/detail?id=6
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Matthias