FileBot

Hi,

Before I start I'd like to point out that I'm a complete Newbie.

I started by buying FileBot on Apples Appstore and have reaslised how powerful this tool is and now want to get it running automated on my QNAP NAS.

I struggled to install FileBot using Container Station/Docker. So I found a FileBot version in an external repository for QNAP (QNAP Club EU). I installed it and it seems to be up and running. This is as far as I've got. There's no GUI which is fine, I think the more powerful features are CLI and Scriptbased. I've SSH'ed into my QNAP but I don't know how to talk to FileBot. How do I do this?

(Oh and I'm running (Q)JDK8 v.1.8.152)

Many Thanks,

QDroidSweden

I guess you're asking about how to use the filebot command-line tool:
https://www.filebot.net/cli.html

filebot -help will print the built-in help.

Note that if you have no experience with using command-line tools, then you probably should start with learning some "how to use bash" basics.

I am completely unfamiliar with the QNAP package, so I can't ensure that everything will work out of the box. If something doesn't just work, you'll also need same basic Unix skills. Just a heads up.

Thanks for your quick reply.

I've tried that. And I do have the smallest basic knowledge of using bash and command line. I thought I just needed Java to get this up and running? Am I completely misunderstanding something?

IDK. What's not working?

If you need java, then calling filebot will probably result in an error messages saying that you need java.

No, I told you, I have Java (Q)JDK8 v.1.8.152 running. I don't need any other dependancies right? So when I ssh into my device and type filebot -help something should happen right?

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You still haven't told me what's not working. What are you doing? What is happening? What did you expect to happen? Please include screenshots of "nothing" because "nothing" can mean anything.

@see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1868


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When you call filebot -version, what does the console output say?

e.g.