myNZBGet - the NZBGet iPhone app

myNZBGet is an iOS frontend for the popular nzbget binary news grabber running on many routers, NAS-systems and media-receivers. It supports direct connection via RPC as well as tunneling the connection via SSH.

myNZBGet is available from Apples App-Store.

• myNZBGet at the App-Store

The current version of myNZBGet is 2.0.2. Please visit the change log on what is new.

The application settings are available from inside the application by tapping on the settings-button (top right) from the server-status view. From the settings main view general settings may be altered directly. Tapping on the “Server Profiles” entry goes to the server profiles management.

Within the Server profiles view you are able to manage an arbitrary number of server profiles. Each server profile may represent a different device or just different connection settings for the same device(s). E.g., depending whether you want to access one of your NZBGet servers from your local network or from outside you may want to specify one profile with direct connection and one with the connection tunneled via SSH.

• Name: a free name for the profile used for the UI
• Host: the IP-Address (local network) or Web-Address

• Password: the NZBGet server password (set in the nzbget.conf file)
• Port: the NZBGet server port (typically 6789)

• Enabled: whether tunneling via SSH is enabled
• Port: the SSH port to use (typically 22)
• Login: the login name to use
• Password: the password to use

• Start Command: the command to use to start the NZBGet server (optional)
• Scan Folder: the folder on the server scanned for incomming NZB files (optional)
• Dest Folder: the destination folder for downloadeds at the server (optional)
• Add NZBs via SSH: use alternative method to add NZBs (requires “Scan Folder” option)
• Monitor free space: whether to monitor free disc space (requires “Dest Folder” option)

• Auto Connect: whether to connect to the last server automatically at application start

The server status view presents all important key facts of your NZBGet server. I think, it is more or less self explanatory. To choose the current server profile tap at the title.

Tool Bar:

• Connect/Disconnect: connects/disconnects to/from the current server
• Control: Start/Stop server; Pause/Resume download or postprocess queue
• Speed: set the maximum speed limit
• Log: shows the server log

Remark: Pause/Resume of the post process queue requires NZBGet 0.7.0 at minimum.

At the downloads view you may manage all current downloads and postprocess jobs and view/delete recent history entries. Depending on your NZBGet server version there are several options. You can

• Reorder the download/postprocess queue
• Delete download/postprocess jobs
• View/delete history entries (>0.7.0)
• Rename downloads (>0.8.0)

From the search view you can directly search for NZBs online using binsearch.info. Just enter the keywords you want to search for in the search bar. A list with results will be presented from where you can go to a detail page. If you found what you where searching for, you may easily add the download to your downlaod queue.

Most likely, yes. I do not own a Popcorn Hour myself, but I had help from Jacob, who tested it with his. He made a small setup guide for me.

Definitivly yes, given your nzbget server supports ssh, as the connection via ssh is encrypted and therefore secure. You have to forward the ssh port from your internet router to your nzbget server. Further you should assign a dynamic internet name to your router (e.g. with DynDNS), which you later can use in myNZBGet as a host name. For QNAP there is a service called MyCloudNAS, which does the necessary steps for you automatically.

In theory it is also possible to forward the JSON-RPC port (standard 6789) from the internet. But I would not recommend that, as this protocol is not encrypted.

Most likely you use an old NZBGet version. There is a bug in the RPC interface of NZBGet 0.6.0, which might cause this problem. Please check the server log, if you find entries like:

Error parsing nzb-file: expected '>'

If you are running NZBGet 0.6.0 you may either want to update to a newer version or you could use the alternative way of adding downloads via ssh.

Also refer to the NZBGet ChangeLog:

fixed: RPC-method "append" did not work properly on Posix systems (it worked only on Windows); 

This kind of error means, that no NZBGet-server could be reached at the address and port you provided in the settings. Given the server is running (check with the NZBGet web interface), this usually could be due to two different reasons:

1. The settings are wrong. Please double check the host and port settings. Be aware, that you have to use the IP-address for the host when beeing in a LAN…

2. The NZBGet-server does not allow RPC connections from the LAN. Please ensure you set your listening IP-address (at the server, not the app!) to 0.0.0.0, to allow connections from the LAN. This has to be done at the NZBGet web interface server configuration page.

myNZBGet can open NZB-files from other applications (like the mail client or web browser). That means, you can open the link to the NZB file in Safari and then send the file to myNZBGet. You may add the download to your server then using the app.

This also allows you to use different NZB binary search engines via Safari.

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