Initial Setup and Configuration

The purpose of this article is to explain the configuration of SABnzbd, detailing what options are useful within the USB environment and what you may want to change. 

Most settings pages will be covered, however a few will not be as I do not recommend you change them. The pages I am not covering in this guide are as follows:

• Switches
• Notifications
• Special

If you wish to learn more about these settings please refer to SABnzbd's official documentation.

Prerequisites

• A Usenet service provider, you can find a list of different providers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers
• An indexer to obtain .nzb files, these are used to tell the server where to find the files

Initial Setup Wizard

Initial Wizard - Language Selection

Select your preferred language. This guide will be assuming you selected English, however feel free to choose any other language, you will just need to translate the guide.

Initial Wizard - Server Setup

Input your usenet service provider's server details; Host, Username and Password.

Tick SSL if you wish to use SSL, keep in mind this comes with a performance overhead and may degrade download speed.

Enter the port that your provider tells you to use, if you chose SSL you will need to use the SSL port.

You will be assigned a certain amount of connections, you're usually best off using the maximum amount allowed. 

Click Test Server to verify the connection is working correctly.

After click Next, you will need to close the tab and reconnect by clicking the link in UCP. The address SABnzbd forwards you to after completing the initial setup is incorrect.

UI Overview

Here is the main screen of SABnzbd.

In the center is your queue, you can drag an NZB file into here to initiate a download. If you have files currently queued you can make changes/delete them from here.

In the top left you are able to pause/resume the entire client, you can also click the dropdown to pause for a certain amount of time.

In the box in the top right you have your download speed controls, from here you can set a max download speed to prevent other clients such as torrent clients from being starved of bandwidth.

By default SABnzbd will sort downloads to /{homexx}/{user}/.sabnzbd/Downloads/complete