Sick Beard - Automatic TV Show Episode download/sort/rename, nfo/tbn maker & TV Guide

Anything to get SB to load info from DB faster?
When I connect via Chrome it takes nearly 1min to load for about 20+ shows ("Loading show info from database") and then backlog. So about 1 min till I see the page.

(2012-04-30 17:57)ijourneaux Wrote:  I have been using Sickbeard for quite a while. I am almost to the point where I could consider dropping my cable service. The opportunity now, is that the hard drive dedicated to TV Shows is filling up. Is there an easy way to manage the retention of TV shows that are managed by Sickbeard? Some shows, you would want to keep all shows, others would be keep 2-3 episodes available.

Take Care

I'd definitely love to have some sort of script - in Sickbeard or no - where I can set an Episode Retention setting for given shows. Being able to choose number and/or age of shows, and automagically delete ones not fitting that would be awesome.

Not just to conserve space, but I tend to follow a lot of shows that I'm only interested in seeing new episodes of, or am only interested in watching once but I don't want anything tied to XBMC's watched mechanism, as my baby daughter has a love of playing with my remote control and "watching" various things while the TV is turned off. Things like news related shows and the like, or ones that I'm only moderately interested in/don't want to save.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...le_Cleaner

That Add-On should to the trick. However - as far as I can remember it is for Dharma, don't know if it works with Eden.
Ah, here you go:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...cleaner%22

Quote:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...le_Cleaner

This is connected to watch status. It is hard to auto delete based purely on mind reading.
(get a harmony one+ remote, it does not send any signals to htpc while watching tv)

For shows with date episode names I agree the file cleaner should be extended with "keep number of episodes".
(Perhaps a bit hard to make the detection bullet proof without check in the sb database though)
Making this possible for a specific show rather than a category would require someone to write a gui to set this per show.

(I have made a mod of the filecleaner that allows deletion to be set per show but this is as well based on watch status as this is a rather good criteria at least while my daughter is too small to set them to watched...)

(2012-05-30 09:57)vikjon0 Wrote:  

Quote:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...le_Cleaner

This is connected to watch status. It is hard to auto delete based purely on mind reading.

Is it though?
Quote from the wiki-entry:

Quote:This plugin will automatically scan your library for watched TV shows and Movies and delete them from the file system based on numerous critia such as age, rating, disk free space etc.

Edit:
Ah, yep - totally overread the part "watched"... my mistake.

Hm, you are right. I must be too hanged up on the need to be able to set it per show/category.
(Personally I do not see a scenario were you want delete ALL shows based on a aged criteria)

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EDIT:
Nope, at least in the eden version
query += " AND playCount > 0"

is added with no condition. The watched flag seem to be assumed by the code as it was by me.
(I did not do any of the upgrade and I do not remember how it was in Dharma)

It would also be hard to determine the age of a show... I think the "age" in the text refers to "time since watched".

This discussion should of course be moved somewhere else.

Yeah, my needs pretty much require working with Sickbeard. As it stands, having shows get automatically deleted is rather pointless as they'd be immediately downloaded again. Having to log into Sickbeard to manually toggle off specific episodes would really be a pain in the ass - if I was going to do that, I'd just manually delete the files while I was at it.

It's complicated, too, because I absolutely need it to be show specific. I'd say most of the shows I watch I want to keep, it's just a couple news/current events sorts of shows I don't want to keep, and those quasi reality tv contest shows the wife watches (once you know who wins, there's not any point in rewatching the series).

I've no idea how one would put this together though

sb does not download the files I delete...

EDIT: and you can absolutely make a file cleaner that work with the SB database, you just have to find somebody that is interested or do it your self.

vikjon0 Wrote:EDIT:
Nope, at least in the eden version

Yap, you were right - the line in the wiki also specifically states "(...) watched TV Shows (...)" - I just overread that part.

(2012-05-30 16:22)vikjon0 Wrote:  sb does not download the files I delete...

Was about to post the same thing - when I delete a file manually from my harddisk, Sickbeard simply sets the status to "Skipped" and doesn't download it again unless I set it manually to do so...

The thread I posted later posts a mod of the addon (the mod being made vikjon0) which allows show-selection.
Did you even go so far to open the link?
Here is a direct link to the mod:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=132527.

But on another note (and a final one from me on this topic): This has nothing to do with sickbeard in general, please open up a new thread if you want to continue the discussion

I tried setting up sab/sb/cp yesterday but sb isn't snatching nzb's for me.

From reading the logs it seems to be getting stuck at the waiting 10 seconds to respect nzb matrixs rules and not going any further.

Anyone any idea what could be wrong?