FileBot

Hi Rednoah,

I looked and couldn't find the answer to this question so I'm posting it here. After setting up Filebot Node on my Synology NAS I would like to setup a task to automatically run Filebot Node when a new file is added to the input folder. Is there a way to do this or does a scheduled task need to be setup to run every so often? If possible I'd like to avoid a scheduled task as I want to avoid placing undo burden on the synology system. Thanks in advance.

Washedawayyy wrote: ↑12 Apr 2020, 14:41 After setting up Filebot Node on my Synology NAS I would like to setup a task to automatically run Filebot Node when a new file is added to the input folder. Is there a way to do this or does a scheduled task need to be setup to run every so often?

There are many ways. But none of them are as easy as running commands on a schedule with the built-in scheduler.

Washedawayyy wrote: ↑12 Apr 2020, 14:41 If possible I'd like to avoid a scheduled task as I want to avoid placing undo burden on the synology system.

Monitoring the file system will but significantly more burden on your system than running things once a day at 4am. The monitoring approach will always use more system resources than the polling approach.


If you want to optimize things, then you can call filebot conditionally, based on whether or not find finds recently modified files.

Thanks for clarifying Rednoah. I'll setup a schedule to sync a couple times per day and that should be fine.