sabnzbd

An Ansible role to setup and configure Sabnzbd on Ubuntu.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 2.0 or higher. Platform requirements are listed in the metadata file. Make sure to download roles specified in Dependencies section if role installed not with Ansible Galaxy.

Overview

List of tasks that will be performed under sabnzbd role:

Install and Configure Sabnzbd Daemon
Create Sabnzbd Complete and Incomplete Downloads folders
If newsgroups_servers is defined, configure usenet server and credentials
Configure Categories and use nzbtomedia postprocessing scripts

Downloads and Media folders layout if used with default variable values:

/mnt/media/
├── downloads               
│   ├── complete        # Complete Downloads
│   └── incomplete
│       ├── sabnzbd     # Sabnzbd Incomplete Downloads
│       └── process     # nzbtomedia processing folders
│           ├── movie
│           └── tv
├── movies
├── music
├── pictures
└── tv

Role Variables

# defaults file for sabnzbd

# Helper vaiable. In use by other roles
sabnzbd_enabled: yes

# Sabnzbd API Key
sab_apikey: c48afc846972e295826bb05d2e84dd59

# Sabnzbd Incomplete download locations
sabnzbd_incomplete: "{{ htpc_downloads_incomplete }}/sabnzbd"

# Helper vaiable. In use by other roles
sabnzbd_host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }}"

# Sabnzbd port. Default port 8080 conflicts with Kodi default port
sabnzbd_port: 9000

Optionally preconfigure usenet credentials ( See examples )

newsgroups_servers:
  - name:
    username:
    password:
    connections:

Dependencies

GR360RY.htpc-common role. Creates htpc user and media folders
GR360RY.nzbtomedia role. Install NZBtoMedia Postprocessing

Variables defined in GR360RY.htpc-common role:

# defaults file for htpc-common

htpc_user_username: htpc
htpc_user_password: htpc
htpc_user_group: htpc
htpc_user_shell: /bin/bash
htpc_user_sudo_access: yes
htpc_ssh_service: yes
htpc_create_media_folders: yes
htpc_zeroconf: yes
htpc_media_path: /mnt/media
htpc_media_movies: movies
htpc_media_tv: tv
htpc_media_music: music
htpc_media_pictures: pictures
htpc_downloads_complete: "{{ htpc_media_path }}/downloads/complete"
htpc_downloads_incomplete: "{{ htpc_media_path }}/downloads/incomplete"

Variables defined in GR360RY.nzbtomedia role:

---
# defaults file for nzbtomedia

nzbtomedia_enabled: yes
nzbtomedia_path: /opt/nzbtomedia

Example Playbook

Install sabnzbd. Usenet credentials can be supplied through web interface.

- hosts: htpc-server
  become: yes
    
  roles:
    - role: GR360RY.sabnzbd

Install sabnzbd. Configure usenet server credentials.

- hosts: htpc-server
  become: yes

  vars:

    # Single or multiple news servers can be defined.
    newsgroups_servers:
      - name: news.someserver.com
        username: foo
        password: bar
        connections: 10
      - name: eu.news.someserver.com
        username: foo
        password: bar
        connections: 10
    
  roles:
    - role: GR360RY.sabnzbd

HTPC-Ansible Project

This role is part of HTPC-Ansible project that includes additional roles for building Ubuntu Based HTPC Server.

Complete list of Ansible Galaxy roles is below:

GR360RY.htpc-common - Create htpc user and media folders
GR360RY.htpc-nas - Configure NAS ( NFS, CIFS and AFP )
GR360RY.kodi-client - Install Kodi Media Player
GR360RY.kodi-mysql - Install MySQL Backend for Kodi
GR360RY.deluge - Install Deluge Bittornet Client
GR360RY.sabnzbd - Install Sabnzbd Usenet Client
GR360RY.nzbtomedia - Install NZBtoMedia Postprocessing
GR360RY.sickrage - Install SickRage
GR360RY.couchpotato - Install CouchPotato
GR360RY.htpc-manager - Install HTPCManager

Additional Info is available at www.htpc-ansible.org

License

BSD

Author Information

Gregory Shulov

GR360RY / ansible-role-sabnzbd