The complete SABnzbd, Sickbeard, Couchpotato and Headphones setup guide for newbies

MrHaugen Wrote:It seems like there is still some life in this project. The author is in contact with the music services to make it work again, and meanwhile there is people looking into some quick fixes. Looks like the solution to the problem is rather simple. I can't test it now, but I will try to do it later this weekend.

Jap, the project is still not dead - the dev. is still working on it (but probably currently has not much time at his hands) and there are other people also looking into the code of hp - I'm hopeful that it will be developed further
However - to work around the musicbrainz-block, I set up a mirror for the musicbrainz-server which is publicly available - you can use that one, headphones will then work again.
However - it can be that headphones needs a little bit longer to retrieve the information from my server since it is pretty slow at the moment (since it is running with the musicbrainz-server already built-in rather than an external one which should speed things up. But I can't configure that right now as that takes a lot of time and there is a lot of Trial&Error involved.

Nevertheless - thanks for the guide, although I wrote my own one (see my signature), your work is greatly appreciated

HenryFord Wrote:Nevertheless - thanks for the guide, although I wrote my own one (see my signature), your work is greatly appreciated

Yea, I saw that earlier today. Nice work! I skimmed through it. A shame I did not find it months ago when I had real trouble

Anyway, I think the two guides address the problems at bit differently. Yours seems to be focusing a lot on cross platform usage and XBMC setup, while mine is just for Windows and a bit more generic when it comes to media player. Perhaps a bit easier to get through for those with windows as a platform? I hope that someone might find this detailed step by step hand holding to be helpful


*EDIT*
I tried the Headphones solution now and it works perfectly. I've added it to the guide.

Thanks for this, just getting started on my end and need a good guide. The Sickbeard download link is dead.

The link should be working now. The original link is dead, so I had to share my own version. Remember to read that paragraph again. I've added a link to a JRiver compatible version as well as a generic version for other apps.

Thanks for the guide. Just started using usenet helped a lot.

MrHaugen Wrote:Categories
You remember the “TV” category from Sickbeard? That’s right. The NZB’s downloaded from Sickbeard is marked as TV when it’s passed on to SABnzbd. So you need to set up the TV category for correct Post Processing of the files.
• On the second line type in “tv” with small letters, under Category.
• Under Processing choose +Delete. This will make SABnzbd do the selected choice as well as all the above. It will download files, check and repair, unpack and delete the source files after the episodes have been transferred.
• Select “sabToSickBeard.exe” under Script
• Click Add on the current line
• Click Save on the last line (strange behavior, yea I know)

Where is the bit where you select 'sabToSickBeard.exe' ? Under categories I have the following:
Category, Priority, Processing, Folder/Path, Groups / Indexer tags. Add or Save

Edit: Fixed. missed the step "3. Post Processing Script folder: This is the folder “AutoProcessTV” in the Sickbeard install folder. For example: “C:\Program Files\Sickbeard\autoProcessTV”"

Correct. The scripts will never show unless you point the SABnzbd to the correct folder. It's will not know where to find the script.

Good luck with the rest. Please tell me if there is anything off in the walk-through.

Awesome tutorial, MrHaugen. I too missed setting the "Post Processing Script Folder" step and once that was setup, everything works like a charm. Thanks for posting.

I really liked this guide! I have also read HenryFord's guide which is well done but I found this guide more to my liking.

Just a quick question on sickbeard. On the page to download it has the windows and python options. I know the other programs use python so should I just use the python version or can I just use the windows version of sickbeard?

I don't think it really matters. The Windows download contains the python26.dll which is just the interpreter wrapped up in a Windows library. Exact same code. If you download just the python source then you'll need to make sure you have the python interpreter installed as well.