Adding a Broadcatching Channel

At the time of writing, the NSA supports RSS 2.0 feeds. Websites with a feed usually display a feed icon (shown next). Copy and paste the feed’s URL into the Applications > Broadcatching > Add

Channel screen and you can download new files as they are added.

Figure 86 Feed Icon

A channel uses a feed to deliver its contents (items). Subscribe the NSA to a feed to be able to download the contents.

Click Applications > Broadcatching > Add Channel to open the following screen. Use the Add

Channel screen to subscribe the NSA to a channel’s feed so you can view the channel. You also

Item Name These are the downloadable files. The following icons show the file’s status in the NSA.

Completed: The NSA has downloaded the whole file. Double-click the item to go to the Download Service screen where you can see the file’s name and location.

Seeding: The NSA downloaded the complete file and NSA is sharing it with other P2P

download users. Double-click the item to go to the Download Service screen.

Downloading: The NSA is downloading the file. Double-click the item to go to the Download Service screen.

Queued: The file is waiting in line for the NSA to download it. Double-click the item to go

to the Download Service screen.

Pause: The download has been manually stopped. Double-click the item to go to the Download Service screen.

Missing File: The NSA could not find the file.

Error: The NSA automatically retries unsuccessful download attempts. The status

displays as error when the re-attempts are also unsuccessful and the NSA stops trying to download the file. To try the download again, use the Add button to create a new task.

Note: A ... indicates an abbreviated file name. Hold your cursor over the name to display the full name.

Published Date This is when the file was made available for download. Description This is the publishers introduction for the file.

Actions Start Downloading: Click this to add the file to the NSA’s download queue or check the

file’s status in the NSA’s download service.

Click the Delete icon to remove the file from the channel’s list.

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select policies for downloading and deleting the channel’s items. Section 4.11 on page 95 provides a tutorial on adding a broadcatching channel.

Figure 87 Applications > Broadcatching > Add Channel

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

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Subscribe to

Channel Feed Paste (or type) the URL of the feed for the channel to which you want to subscribe into this field. This is read-only in the Preferences screen.

Note: Make sure the link goes to the actual RSS feed instead of to another list of links or information about the channel.

One way to test this is by clicking the link. Clicking an actual RSS feed link opens a screen of XML code (in browsers without an RSS feed aggregator) or a window where you can add the RSS feed (in browsers with an RSS feed aggregator).

Download Policy Set which of the channel’s items the NSA downloads.

Download All Items: Download every file in the feed.

Download Only New Items: Download new files from today on.

Manually Choose Items for Download: Only download individual files you select later

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Location of Downloaded Files

This shows where the NSA stores new downloads (Put incomplete downloads in) and where the NSA moves completed downloads (Move completed downloads to). The Share column shows the name of the share where the file is downloaded. The Path column points to the location in the share where the NSA will save the downloaded files.

• P2P download jobs are stored in /*/incoming (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.) • HTTP/FTP jobs are stored in /* (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)

• All jobs triggered by RSS channels create the subfolder in /* using the channel name where it store all files downloaded from that channel (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)

Edit Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location where you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

• Share - Select the share from the list.

• Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the

following screen and navigate to the file’s location.

• Current Location - This is the location of the selected folder.

• Folder Name - Enter a new folder name and click to create it. • Type - This identifies the item as a file or folder.

• Name - This is the name of the folder/file.

Select a folder. If you don’t select a folder, a forward slash (/) displays in the Path field. All contents within the specified share are automatically selected.

Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen. Apply Click this to save your changes.

Cancel Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

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