Finished TV and Movie Automation in a Virtual Machine

supertom44 Wrote:@aptalca

Nice guide, deffinetly something Im looking to set up.

Only issue I have come accross is I can find a site that offers Rss feed that also has 720 quality of the shows I want.

Sadly none of them seem to which is strange as the shows Im looking for aren't rare, things like Castle, big bang theory and how i met your mother.

Looks like for now Ill have to stick to doing it manually.

Cheers for the guide though, will come in handy.

Not sure if this has been thrown out on here already but you could try ShowRSS to get 720 quality. You can actually generate several feeds that include standard and high def, or just high def for your show list. Still can't guarantee that all of your shows will have a 720 version but it might be a start.

Cheers Ill check it out, at the moment I have been using newsgroups, works brilliantly.

Only issue now is my nas had died and tried to take all of my data with it. So I am now trying to get my data off it.

hello guys,

I use a similar process to automate my torrent downloads.
The difference is that i installed the tools directly on the host because I had a bad experience by testing with a virtual machine in performance,

For remote desktop the htpc, i use a windows seven patch that allow multiple remote desktop connection and i remote in with a second account.

but should i test again in vm because i'm seduce by the idea of having a portable configuration.

Question : Why you use virtualbox and not the windows virtual pc for win7 ?

Other différence is the software used,

I use a soft named watchdirectory that includes all the features (and more) of those used in this tutorial, it easily replace scru + belvedere + eventghost.

It is not free but extremely powerful and complete and the advantage is having a single soft to manage the entire automation process.

I would have a little more detail my setup but i am french and not very good with English

Haze, i have just had a look at your WatchDirectory software and it looks great. I am trying to set it up using theRenamer at the moment, but it doesn't seem to be working properly, theRenamer seems to execute, but not actually do anything, but when i launch it manually it works fine.

Have you used theRenamer with it?

Thanks

i'd love to find a substitute program for belvedere. the thing is just too glitchy to be fully functional.

yes i use therenamer, here is a screen of my settings :



it launch on "FILENEW" and "DIRNEW", run as service, and it works perfectly

hope i help you

yes i use therenamer, here is a screen of my settings :



and it works perfectly

hope i help you

Wow these setups look really complicated... I just installed a copy of windows server 2008 R2 (You can really use any windows version, doesnt even need server) and set up samba shares for my files, then installed uTorrent and setup RSS TV show downloading (eztv). I don't even bother with renaming or anything since XBMC scrapes all my scene names just fine.

Haze Wrote:yes i use therenamer, here is a screen of my settings :



and it works perfectly

hope i help you

thanks for your reply, would it also be possible to post a screenshot or tell me which of these methods you use:



the thing i am worried about is, what will happen if theRenamer launches when the files are still being seeded?

thanks!

usually I use the "default" monitoring method because the "fast" method does not always work,
otherwise the task start as service and for events "FILENEW" and "DIRNEW"

for the seed, effectively if the file is seeding it's problematic for therenamer move the file,

my solution is to set utorrent to stop the seed when file is finished,
and for keep a good ratio i caught up on other files than tv shows that I leave seed.

You can also create a intermediate task with watchdirectory for that copy the downloaded file into another directory where you execute therenamer.