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Alt.Binz (English) => Help => Topic started by: simian340 on July 24, 2009, 02:59:52 am
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I've been using Alt.Biz 0.25.0 for several months now and it works great. However I would like for Alt.Binz to disconnect from my Usenet provider once the last .nzb in the queue has been par'd and unrar'd. I have "Connected while idle *" unchecked but Alt.Binz still stays connected even though there is nothing left to download. Am I selecting the wrong option? Is this feature available in a more recent release?
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I've been using Alt.Biz 0.25.0 for several months now and it works great. However I would like for Alt.Binz to disconnect from my Usenet provider once the last .nzb in the queue has been par'd and unrar'd. I have "Connected while idle *" unchecked but Alt.Binz still stays connected even though there is nothing left to download. Am I selecting the wrong option? Is this feature available in a more recent release?
It just looks like as if it were still connected, because the connect button is still highlighted, but if u take a look in the log u will see, that each thread gets disconnected after it has downloaded the last article.
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The Connect button itself can also be toggled programatically by enabling Setup -> Misc #2 -> Enable status in XML file, then using a script like with this Powershell example:
$abstatusxml = "C:\Program Files\Altbinz\altbinz_status.xml"
function Toggle-AltbinzConnect {
$abstat = [xml] (get-content $abstatusxml)
if ($abstat.altbinz.connect -imatch "false") {
write "Connecting Altbinz ................"
$abstat.altbinz.connect = "true"
} else {
write "Disconnecting Altbinz ............."
$abstat.altbinz.connect = "false"
}
$abstat.save($abstatusxml)
}
if (((get-process) -match "altbinz") -and (test-path $abstatusxml)) {
Toggle-AltbinzConnect
}