XBMC - The Dharma Guide

Very grateful for this guide. Somewhere I should post a tip to total n00bs like myself-- I found myself unable to locate the initial settings you point out, like adding sources. Turns out it's because I changed my skin before I started, and the skin didn't have the options XD Oh well, that was 4 hours I'll never get back.

Just finished the whole saznbd/sickbeard saga from a youtube tutorial. By the time you add being a n00b to all that stuff, it was quite a journey, learning about nzb sites, latest knowledge about usenet, etc.

Awesome guide, and really helped me a lot.

One suggestion would be to give a step-by-step list of all the stuff you will need to have setup before you should start trying to set up SABnzbd, sickbeard and Couch Potato.


For example: if you go the usenet route you will need an account with both a usenet provider, and a NZB provider before you should attempt to set up these programs.

While you do infer that you need these set up in your instructions for each application, it would be helpful to have a list of things that need to be in place before you start setting them up, including a list of top providers (astraweb, etc)


Thanks again for your work on this.

That is a really good idea, thanks. Will update the guide as soon as I can

The guide is now available in the XBMC-Wiki (although some parts are missing):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Dharma_Guide

I will update it accordingly with my current guide.
I will at one point extend my guide to Eden, but didn't have yet time to review this.

i can't download any zip files onto xbmc. the okay icon in settings is permanently ghosted. does anyone know why?

Can you post a screenshot? I don't know what exactly you mean...
Please elaborate a little bit, I'm sure that someone can help you then

HenryFord Wrote:The guide is now available in the XBMC-Wiki (although some parts are missing):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Dharma_Guide

I will update it accordingly with my current guide.
I will at one point extend my guide to Eden, but didn't have yet time to review this.

I kept dragging my feet on that :)

I wasn't sure if the team would want the Sickbeard part on there, but now it doesn't sound like anyone has a problem with it. I've never used Sickbeard myself, so I'm not exactly sure how it all works, but just try to avoid direct links/words to/about pirated stuff (if there is any. Again, never used it myself), and everyone should be happy. That is to say, to specific stuff or sites that are just about piracy.

I have no personal problems with it, and I certainly don't judge other people (or, in theory, myself) if they may or may not do such things, but the wiki is basically covered under the same no-piracy stuff that the forums just adopted. So if you can say it on the forums then you can say it on the wiki.

Ned Scott Wrote:I kept dragging my feet on that
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I have no personal problems with it, and I certainly don't judge other people (or, in theory, myself) if they may or may not do such things, but the wiki is basically covered under the same no-piracy stuff that the forums just adopted. So if you can say it on the forums then you can say it on the wiki.

Understandable - this is why I added the disclaimer in the introduction myself... it could - in theory - become dangerous for XBMC to include such things.

Edit:
Just jumped through my guide again - it shouldn't be a problem regarding XBMC's piracy stand, I don't link to any warez-sites specifically (except for one link to nzbsrus, if you consider nzb-sites as piracy) and as mentioned in the piracy-stand-thread, sickbeard and couchpotato don't actually download anything from the usenet, this is handled by sabnzbd which again is only a client to binary-usenet-posts. In my opinion this isn't violating

Btw: I'm really proud that my Guide found it's way into the wiki I hope that I am able - at some point - to help out more with the XBMC, especially regarding developement, but at this point I am a real newbie to C++ (and C for that matter) and free-time to learn more just isn't there - I have a heavy workload at my job.

I believe when nzb stuff was brought up we felt it was the same thing as torrents. As in, could be used for bad, could be used for good, but nzb in itself was not bad. So it should be all good.