2010-03-24, 02:06
So I'm having my first baby in a touch over two months. I figure I'm going to have a lot less free time to fiddle with things. So why not set up XBMC and my network to automatically sort and scrape new watchables as they come in off my torrent RSS feeds?
Well that was my justification anyways. I probably just wanted to fiddle.
I won't get into my old process, which was darn near to what I'm describing above, but not as instantaneous. With Prae5's point in the right direction I now have something better. Perhaps I'll explain the old method later if anyone is curious or the below method doesn't work for them. It piggy backs off a lot of the same stuff as this Lifehacker article just like much of the below.
What you'll need:
uTorrent
version shouldn't matter, so long as it has the ability to download incomplete files to a default location, then move the completed files to another location. the last several versions have had this for sure. I am using the current.
RSS feeds for your shows
Pretty much any shows. Though date based shows like the daily show or colbert don't need to use this process and can use another to automatically be sorted and scraped into XBMC. Ignore those two for now.
TVRename v2.1.1a6
Click the name to get it. Has to be this version. Can't be newer. It is the only one to support command line arguments, which we want.
Z-Cron
Click the link to get it. You don't necessarily need this, it's a Task Scheduler program. Windows and Linux have task schedules built in. I prefer using this one to Windoze's. Easy to configure, but more options. Free for home use.
Google Chrome
Yeah no DL links to that, you can find it I think. I personally still use Firefox as my browser, as I like adblock+ and some other extensions Chrome doesn't really have the equal of yet. But for this purpose, it has to be Chrome. Firefox forces a user prompt popup for a command we need to use - and this is supposed to be automated, remember!
My Scripts
Well not REALLY mine at all - the visual basic ones are modified versions of a script written by stewood on tvrename forum. I'll be posting the scripts in <code> tag below, copy them into .txt files, or if someone can host a very small .zip let me know.
XBMC web server
Turned on and with the proper port forwarded in your router (8080 default)
Well that was my justification anyways. I probably just wanted to fiddle.
I won't get into my old process, which was darn near to what I'm describing above, but not as instantaneous. With Prae5's point in the right direction I now have something better. Perhaps I'll explain the old method later if anyone is curious or the below method doesn't work for them. It piggy backs off a lot of the same stuff as this Lifehacker article just like much of the below.
What you'll need:
uTorrent
version shouldn't matter, so long as it has the ability to download incomplete files to a default location, then move the completed files to another location. the last several versions have had this for sure. I am using the current.
RSS feeds for your shows
Pretty much any shows. Though date based shows like the daily show or colbert don't need to use this process and can use another to automatically be sorted and scraped into XBMC. Ignore those two for now.
TVRename v2.1.1a6
Click the name to get it. Has to be this version. Can't be newer. It is the only one to support command line arguments, which we want.
Z-Cron
Click the link to get it. You don't necessarily need this, it's a Task Scheduler program. Windows and Linux have task schedules built in. I prefer using this one to Windoze's. Easy to configure, but more options. Free for home use.
Google Chrome
Yeah no DL links to that, you can find it I think. I personally still use Firefox as my browser, as I like adblock+ and some other extensions Chrome doesn't really have the equal of yet. But for this purpose, it has to be Chrome. Firefox forces a user prompt popup for a command we need to use - and this is supposed to be automated, remember!
My Scripts
Well not REALLY mine at all - the visual basic ones are modified versions of a script written by stewood on tvrename forum. I'll be posting the scripts in <code> tag below, copy them into .txt files, or if someone can host a very small .zip let me know.
XBMC web server
Turned on and with the proper port forwarded in your router (8080 default)