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

Any hope that this might support nzbmatrix.com as well? Looks good. Hoping I can get this running on my NAS, a QNAP TS-409 Pro.

It would be pretty simple to add support for nzbmatrix.com, yes, except that I don't have a VIP account so I can't access the API.

I've just installed Sick Beard SVN, and I must say it looks great. I still have to look at it a bit better, but first I have got a couple of questions:

- It installed in the Home folder, is there any way I can install it in a different folder? What folder would you normally use for this kind of applications?

- I opened it from the terminal. Is there any way to automatically run it in the background when Ubuntu starts?

Your talking to a Ubuntu n00b (installed it last week). Please remember that when answering my questions. Thank you!

These questions have nothing to do with Sick Beard and would be better answered on a linux forum, but I'll answer them anyway ;-P If you have further questions though please start a new thread or ask elsewhere so we can keep this one about Sick Beard only.

You can install it wherever you like, just do an svn checkout from whichever dir you want it in. I'd probably have it in ~/sickbeard/

For starting it on startup I have no idea if there's an easier way than messing with your initrd - google or ubuntu forums would help with that. I'd recommend running it in a screen session so you can look at the console rather than having to check the logs all the time - again, google or `man screen' should help you with that as well.

Your right. For further questions I'll turn to the Ubuntu forums. But thanks a lot for answering them anyway!

Nice work! Been looking for something like this for ages.. Keep up the good work!

One small thing. All my season folders are made with a zero first.. EX: Season 01 02 03 04 etc. But Sick Beard does not use it. Any way to change that? Or maybe i should just rename my folders instead

Ok, almost got it...

I have all my tv shows added and SickBeard is adding them to sabnzb when released . Unfortunatly the post processing script wont work. Sabnzb just says Exit(01) Cannot run script. Even with debug logging turned on i cant find any info. I can run sabToSickBeard.py "path to tv show folder" from terminal and it works perfectly so i guess the problem is sabnzb. Ive search the sab forums, no luck. Any wizdom is greatly appreciated.

Also SickBeard doesn't like non ascii characters in episode names.

cheers

perri: I can't think of an elegant way to support both formats so I'd say rename yours for now.

harryzimm:

Define "doesn't like non ascii"... it should support them just fine (or at least there's no reason that it can't).

As for post processing, I'm assuming you're on linux? If so make sure the path to python at the top of the sabToSickBeard.py is the same as on your system ("whereis python") and that it's got execute permissions for all, not just owner (chmod xx7). If you're on Windows you need to use the EXE (or make a batch file wrapper).

Sorry

I had an episode called top.gear.s05e05.Jaguar S-Type Diesel Lapping The Nürburgring. When adding top gear to SickBeard it gave me an error "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range" or something close to that anyway when i renamed Nürburgring to Nurburgring, it added all the episodes correctly.

As for the post processing, yeah unraid is based on slackware. #!/usr/bin/python is correct and did chmod +x. still no go.

cheers