I believe this is right up your alley sir!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/user/opt/Sick-Beard/SickBeard.py”, line 44, in
from sickbeard.webserveInit import initWebServer
File “/home/user/opt/Sick-Beard/sickbeard/webserveInit.py”, line 24, in
from sickbeard.webserve import WebInterface
File “/home/user/opt/Sick-Beard/sickbeard/webserve.py”, line 30, in
from Cheetah.Template import Template
ImportError: No module named Cheetah.Template
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo ~/opt/Sick-Beard/SickBeard.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/user/opt/Sick-Beard/SickBeard.py”, line 44, in
from sickbeard.webserveInit import initWebServer
File “/home/user/opt/Sick-Beard/sickbeard/webserveInit.py”, line 24, in
from sickbeard.webserve import WebInterface
File “/home/user/opt/Sick-Beard/sickbeard/webserve.py”, line 30, in
from Cheetah.Template import Template
ImportError: No module named Cheetah.Template

The other thing that might need adding is that if a users pending download folder is within the same folder that couchpotato processes it will reak havok! Also the same with TV shows, it will grab them and find a name randomly for them!
Dealing with Torrent and NZB with CouchPotato file managing doesn’t work well together, I’d turn it off if you use both, otherwise just use NZB and get sabnzb to put files within a Movie and TV folder.

I used to use yahoo search but they were doing the same thing – too much content back there. So I switched to google. Now I’ve switched to duckduckgo.

I do still get on google for image search, but there is probably a way to do that with duckduckgo and I just haven’t ‘searched for it’ yet.

I’ve only recently come across your site, and I must say the articles look very useful and well-written. Thanks again.

and this: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k6bnt/any_suggestions_to_make_my_vpn_auto_reconnect_in/

should do the job.

I’m running Ubuntu 11.04. Currently, I’m wanting SAB to connect through a VPN connection that I create using OpenVPN. When I connect to the VPN, I receive an IP address (assigned dynamically). I don’t have a problem manually specifying that IP address when I launch SAB (input as the –server command line argument at the terminal). When doing that, everything works fine and SAB performs as expected. However, this setup is part of a standalone media center PC (SAB->SickBeard->XBMC), so I’m trying to automate this setup as much as possible. For instance, I have a cron job that runs every few minutes to check and see if the VPN is down. If it is down, the cron job will reestablish the VPN, which means a new IP address, which means I have to manually specify it to SAB….and on and on if/when the VPN goes down.

I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to Linux networking stuff, so maybe you guys can help me out. Maybe there’s a solution to this problem in port forwarding or a dyndns type thing. I dunno, as I’ve said, I’m new at this and googling hasn’t yielded me any good answers yet.

Cheers and thanks for a great tutorial!

scott@entertainment:~$ /etc/init.d/couchpotato start
Starting CouchPotato
/etc/init.d/couchpotato: 54: start-stop-daemon: not found

I can start the application manually by putting in the python command, and that is fine for now. But would like to get this automated.

Thanks!

Just one problem for me. In Linux, Sickbeard is creating folders without Group write permission. I need the group write permission enabled by default so that I can delete stuff when logged in as another user.

Is there anyway to specify the umask options when starting sickbeard using your script? The bundled init script starts sickbeard using the start-stop-deamon, and in that case you can specify a –usmask option.

However, I too had problems with PIDs when I used the bundled init script, so I used yours instead.

Any help would be much appreciated.

2011-12-13 19:31:15.267312 CHECKVERSION :: Exception generated in thread CHECKVERSION: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘Nonea’

I’m using sickbeard build 491 on ubuntu.

I search for my movie, it gets snatched. I wait for the download to finish and then at the end i have an image file. Excuse my noobness, but is this something i can stop/fix?

Thanks,

P.

Error assembling array: mdadm exited with exit code 1: mdadm: metadata format 01.02 unknown, ignored.
mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdh1: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sdh1 has no superblock – assembly aborted

I’m a total noob.

Help

Thanks

First off, interesting fix. Second off, I don’t recommend editing the code for Couch Potato directly as next time it goes to update itself it’ll likely overwrite your changes or it may even cause problems beyond that.

Instead I’d suggest reporting this as a possible fix on Couch Potato’s GitHub or forum.

Also, it is already possible to disable Couch Potato from launching the browser at startup via the web interface or via the config.ini file in the .couchpotato directory and I’ve not seen any issue with Couch Potato ignoring this configuration option when launching it with “python ~/.couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d”.

I have used Startup Applications in the past as it is dead simple and may alone be a good fix for the startup issues people are experiencing (However, it may not get Couch Potato to shutdown properly).

Anyway, definitely appreciate the ideas and feedback and please do relay this to the Couch Potato forums as my main focus is in writing the guides themselves and bugs should be reported to the projects directly.

Cheers!

Make sure you’ve installed SABnzbd+ via the official Ubuntu or Linux Mint repositories or via JCFP’s PPA first as that should resolve all dependencies for Sick Beard. If you’ve done this already or continue to have this issue after doing so hop on to Sick Beard’s forums or Freenode IRC channel and see if anyone can help you there.

Best of luck,

Thanks again for the fix/addition. I got it tested and updated the script to include it.

Cheers!

Just for your reference mdadm is for managing multi-disk arrays (such as RAID) in case you did in fact need that, or need it in the future.

The PPA is up and hasn’t gone down anytime that I’ve seen. You may need to add the repository via the command line/terminal due to an annoying bug in Ubuntu.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcfp/ppa

That should get you going.

Thanks for the great guide/script!

I don’t have a solution for this as it’s working fine for me. At this point I recommend that anyone that’s having the problem revert to the default Couch Potato auto-start script (/home/$USER/.couchpotato/initd and edit it accordingly). If the problem persist submit a bug report to Couch Potato directly and launch it manually (python /home/$USER/.couchpotato/CouchPotato.py).

These scripts have actually been replaced by Upstart scripts, so it may just be that the init scripts are showing their age a bit here. Unfortunately I’m not a programmer so apart from hacking them together a bit and a bit a basic trouble-shooting they quickly get outside my skill set.

In the future sedux may be able to provide an Upstart based script to completely replace this, but currently we don’t have one available.

Best of luck!

You’re welcome for the guides!

1. I’m not quite sure what problem you’re running into here. I’ve noticed some bugs with adding PPA’s via the GUI but via add-apt-repository I’ve not had any issues. I’d suggest retrying via the above command and see if that fixes the issues (it should allow you to update SABnzbd+ if so).

2. I generally don’t cover anything more than single system setups. But you can change Couch Potato to 0.0.0.0 via the General tab via its web interface. Sick Beard can be configured by going into your .sickbeard folder and opening up the config.ini file and changing the web_host line (should be third one from the top).

Take care!
daemox

Firstly, thanks for an amazingly well-explained tutorial.
I’ve installed sickbeard, sabnzbdplus, couchpotato and headphones almost as per your guide, but ran into a few problems that others may too:

1. JCFP’s ppa gave me GPG errors on command line in apt and some other error in the software manager. I’m running oneiric, so I tried to change the release in the ppa to ‘natty’ but that didn’t seem to help. Instead I removed JCFP’s ppa and installed from the default repository.

2. I’m running all these on my HTPC (HP Proliant Microserver, Nvidia Geforce 210, Ubuntu Oneiric) and want to connect to the services from my home network (laptop & tablet). All services are running on the ports I selected, but are only accessible from the same machine except for sickbeard. Running the command:
netstat -anltp | grep “LISTEN”
shows sickbeard is listening on 0.0.0.0 while the rest are on 127.0.0.1. According to the all-knowing Google, when a service listens on 127.0.0.1 it is only accessible from the same machine, so I have to edit the others’ config for 0.0.0.0 rather than the ‘localhost’ or 127.0.0.1 that I’d set them to.

Ciao,
Greg

You’re most welcome! As for your problem, what command are you using to launch Sick Beard manually? Also have you ever launched it while using sudo at the start of the command? It looks like you edited the script to hard code in your username and directory. Remember the EXT3/4 filesystems are case sensitive so if your home folder is “Xbmc” or “XBMC” that is not the same as “xbmc”.

Off the top of my head that’s all I can think of currently. I’d suggest re-importing the script fresh (copy/paste on top of your existing script) and re-running all the commands I list in my guide (sudo chmod x+u, etc). If you have ran Sick Beard with sudo (or think you may have), you will want to delete the .sickbeard folder and reinstall from scratch (or Google on how to fix your permissions if you’d rather).

Running Sick Beard as root is the most common cause of problems that I’ve seen.

Best of luck and please feel free to post follow-up questions or to email me directly if that’s more convenient.

I’m having trouble getting the script to launch Sickbeard.  I run “/etc/init.d/sickbeard start” and get the message confirming the start, but I’m not able to login to the web interface.  It’s only when I manually start Sickbeard can I login.

Xbmc is my user off an xbmc-live install

#Required — Must Be Changed!USER=”xbmc” #Set Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian username here. #Required — Defaults Provided (only change if you know you need to).HOST=”127.0.0.1″ #Set Sick Beard address here.PORT=”8081″ #Set Sick Beard port here. #Optional — Unneeded unless you have added a Username and Password to Sick Bear$SBUSR=”" #Set Sick Beard Username (if you use one) here.SBPWD=”" #Set Sick Beard Password (if you use one) here. #Script — No changes needed below.case “$1″ instart)#Start Sick Beard and send all messages to /dev/null.cd /home/xbmc/.sickbeardecho “Starting Sick Beard”sudo -u xbmc -H nohup python /home/xbmc/.sickbeard/SickBeard.py -q > /dev/null 2$;;stop)

Unfortunately I’m not sure what the issue is here. The PID files have always been hit or miss in my experience. You could try reverting to the default Couch Potato script and see if that fixes. Otherwise you may just have to manually launch the program when you restart your system for the time being or seek support on Couch Potato’s forums as this is getting into the programming realm.

Best of luck!

Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion. I’ll take a look at this in my next revision. To clarify though you had to specific your exact local IP address (such 192.168.1.33)? If so, which browser and OS were you using?

If so, I haven’t had this be an issue with SABnzbd+ since my original guide so I’m curious about this.

Cheers!

Thanks for catching this, as I had noted this may cause some confusion as it’s currently implemented and it certainly did! I’ll make this a bit more “clear” in my next revision.

Thanks again,

I’m glad the guide worked out for you! Thanks for the note about the 3TB alignment as well. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten to play with 3TB drives yet so I’m currently unable to help with them. Happy you provided a link, cheers!

Thanks for that modification. I’ll give it a test and include the fix in my next revision of the script. I had noticed that the notifications were not working, but it was never a priority so I never investigated more so thanks for this!

Cheers!

Cheers!

I’ve been away, and getting back to Ainer.org currently. Please let me know if you still have questions about operating system selection. Ubuntu is my recommended personal computer operating system and is what I run for my HTPC as well.

I’d be happy to provide more details and suggestions if you’re still feeling it out. Shoot me an email if you’d like.

This guide is actually retired and is no longer supported. I don’t use or recommend the multi-threaded par application any longer.

Thanks for the note though,
daemox

Wanted to mention the script edited via gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/sickbeard
on line 39 contains
sudo -u $USER -H nohup python /home/$USER/.sickbeard/SickBeard.py -q > /dev/null 2>&1 &it can be modified to add -E switch as;sudo -u $USER -H nohup python /home/$USER/.sickbeard/SickBeard.py -q > /dev/null 2>&1 &

this allows the script to use the user’s Environment variables. (This seemed to cause issue if user wants to use libnotify for notifications enabled under sickbeard/notification menu).

Cheers

Thank you for this fantastic guide. It was very useful for me. I had a similar issue with misalignment. In my case it was due to the 4096 byte sector size of my 3TB drives. I was able to resolve it by using GNU parted prior to setting up the RAID. I used these instructions: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html

I hope this helps.

Just a quick note.  I found that using the “t+” switch for the par2 config on page 4 didn’t work.  I had to use “-t+” as if I was running par2 from the command line for this to work.

Using your setting stopped my post-processing from happening.

I would rather have a website with good content over a fancy easy to navigate site with crappy guides.  

You’ll need to delete your .couchpotato folder and then re-install. An alternative is to look into the chmod and chown commands, but you’ll need to use Google and man (manual) pages if you want to go that route.

On a side note, we’re working on upstart replacement scripts (to replace the current init.d ones) for Couch Potato, Sick Beard, SABnzbd+, and Headphones, and as soon as we get some more testing done I’ll be using them in the updates to all my guides. Shoot me an email if you’d like an update when they’re ready.

It shouldn’t be too long now.

I have the same problem as betrayer

“.:~$ start-stop-daemon: Unable to open pidfile ‘/var/run/couchpotato.pid’ for writing: Permission denied (Permission denied)”

I ran the script “/etc/init.d/couchpotato start” with “sudo” before read your  warning :-S…..  yeah, I know, I’m an idiot. Rebooting the system not working.

How can I solve this problem?

Thank you.

You’re welcome! We should also have some new (related) guides and updates out during this month. I’m glad to hear you’re giving Ubuntu a try, I come from a similar background myself.

Best of luck!

Thank you very much! Sick Beard and Couch Potato will only update XBMC’s library if it’s running, but XBMC should also automatically update its library as soon as you start it up again (so you shouldn’t need to keep it running!).

Feel free to shoot me an email if you get stuck.

Cheers, and thanks again!

If you messed something up and feel you need to reinstall, just delete your .sickbeard folder and repeat the reinstall as per the guide!

Cheers!

You’re quite welcome! I’m not quite sure on your question, if you’re entering in your NZBMatrix credentials they should save (make sure to hit the save button at the bottom!). Apart from that, you do not need any other providers (or even NZBMatrix really since Sick Beard provides its own provider now!), but I do recommend getting as many as you can (and paying for or donating to as many as you can afford).

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best of luck!

Thanks for the comment, and if you’re of the lucky sort that needs more complexity in your life, then I envy you sir!

Also, you may want to look at running the mini.iso Ubuntu provides and piece together your system bit by bit. You can add as much or as little as you want, throw in XFCE, LXDE, Xmonad, KDE, Gnome Shell, or whatever your heart desires. Heck, run it sans a GUI if you’re really wanting.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

I am teasing a bit, but this is my point, no matter how polished and user friendly Ubuntu may become on the surface (no matter how simple!), at its core it’s still Debian, it’s still Linux, it’s still robust. If you have the itch, and the know-how, it can be scratched!

If you’re just antsy, and looking for a new area to explore, I can suggest taking a look at Linux Mint Debian Edition, aptosid, or Arch Linux. The last two are quite a lot more “complex” than Ubuntu, and can definitely help to spread your wings in the Linux realm.

Whatever your choice, enjoy, have fun, and thanks again for commenting!

It’s beginning to look like something may have changed in Couch Potato to cause issues with the startup script. I’m about to start updating the guide so you can try your hand at the startup script Couch Potato includes by default, or if you’d like, wait until I get my guide updated and I’ll take a look at what’s going on.

In the meantime, you can try the -d instead of the -q flag, or once you have Couch Potato up try restarting it via the web interface, that should release the terminal window without killing Couch Potato.

Shoot me an email if you’d like and I’ll let you know when my guide gets updated.

Cheers!

Unfortunately, I’ve not ran into something like that and since there’s so little detail there it’s hard for me to speculate as to what might be going on behind the scenes. If you can check your logs, and then you may just want to take them straight to Couch Potato’s forums in this case as it may end up being a bug in the software which would be outside my ability to help.

https://couchpotato.tenderapp.com/

Either way, feel free to keep in touch or ask me more questions!

You may need to email me on this if you’re still having the issue. Have you ran Couch Potato or the script with sudo? Have you added your username to the script?

If you’re still stuck shoot me some more details via email and we’ll see what we can figure out.

Best of luck!

Thanks for stopping by and for the quick CLI commands!

Cheers!

I can’t figure out where I went wrong, but I’m sure I did.  Is this just a stupid mistake or should I scratch the whole thing and start from the beginning?

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll keep that in mind when I next update my guides.

Cheers!

The easiest fix is to simply delete your .sickbeard folder and reinstall. If you want a more complex wait to fix it you can look into chmod and chown.

Best of luck!

Thanks for the feedback! I’m glad my guides helped ya out!

Cheers!

Yeah that will work, but the keys should be trusted properly as outlined in my guide as well (and were in subsequent testing, I just ran into the bug once and wanted to note it, and an easy fix, in case others ran into the same hiccup ;) ).

The first two commands provided by JCFP can also be simplified greatly by using “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcfp/ppa”. Also, if you’re looking for a streamlined terminal option, I’d recommend checking out Mar2zz’s installation scripts (https://github.com/Mar2zz/LaSi).

He does a great job in this area, and it’s just not one I plan to focus on (as there are already tons of terminal based instructions out there).

Cheers!

Yeah that will work, but the keys should be trusted properly as outlined in my guide as well (and were in subsequent testing, I just ran into the bug once and wanted to note it, and an easy fix, in case others ran into the same hiccup ;) ).

The first two commands provided by JCFP can also be simplified greatly by using “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcfp/ppa”. Also, if you’re looking for a streamlined terminal option, I’d recommend checking out Mar2zz’s installation scripts (https://github.com/Mar2zz/LaSi).

He does a great job in this area, and it’s just not one I plan to focus on (as there are already tons of terminal based instructions out there).

Cheers!

This will also trust the keys properly..

I was waiting to see if anyone else would chime in first, but since no one has here’s my take.

With the beta channel for Firefox, I haven’t had any issues that needed a second version of Firefox installed, however if I wanted to start bench marking the different versions against each other that would definitely be a necessity.

I just consider myself a computer hobbiest though, so if you’re more serious about testing software (or working professionally in this realm) then I could definitely see having multiple copies installed as being a boon.

In regards to the frequency that Firefox is updated, we should be seeing final releases every 6 weeks (like clockwork) from here on out. I hadn’t taken this into account above, but version 7 should actually be released prior to Ubuntu’s 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) release!

Anyway, I hope that gets to about the jist of what you were asking as I wasn’t a hundred-percent clear. Cheers and thanks for the question!

You’re very welcome, thanks for the comments!

Cheers!

Yep, you are exactly right, these are the same folder! We have to configure SABnzbd+ to deal with the downloads exactly how we want (category, and Folder/Path) and then we have to tell Couch Potato where SABnzbd+ will be saving the downloads it has been sent (Download folder). Once they are downloaded, Couch Potato will use “Download folder” to find them again, rename them, and then move them to the “Movie destination” folder.

Hope this answers your question, let me know if not!

In CP, under the “Download folder”, it says “Your SABnzbd movie download folder”.
In your example, you input “/home/daemox/Downloads/cinematic”. However, on page 10 of your guide for SABnzbd (http://www.ainer.org/sabnzbd-install-setup-configuration-guide-for-ubuntu-linux-mint/10), you have “cinematic” input as the Folder/Path for the cinematic category. Are these the same folders?

Thanks for your time.

Sorry I didn’t get back to you yesterday, but glad to hear you got it working! Regarding Firefox issues, you may just want to give Ubuntu a go instead of replacing your computer. ;)

With that said, and all seriousness, unless you have system-wide stability issues, it’s unlikely to be an issue with your hardware. It’s much more probable that your OS or even just the application in question needs some maintenance or wiping and re-installation.

On a related note, and just for future reference, I don’t provide support for Windows or Macintosh installations at all. I’ll wish you well if that remains your chosen OS, but I have limited time and resources and I have chosen to invest them into helping others on my chosen platform (personal computer), operating system (Ubuntu), and applications (Ainer.org’s Featured Projects).

With that said, if you choose to give Ubuntu a try I’d be glad to help ya in anyway I can, so feel free to keep in touch or to shoot me an email if you feel like doing so in the future. I’m also hoping to do a full Install, Setup, & Configuration guide for Ubuntu for either this upcoming release (11.10, Oneiric Ocelot) or for the next Long Term Support release (12.04) so stay tuned for that if at all interested.

Again, glad everything’s working for you and take care!

Last night I finally got SABnzbd+ & SickBeard configured & working properly.  I had to uninstall and re-install both programs and follow your guide to a T but as of last night it was working.

I think I need to get a new computer though as firefox would sometimes crash, but aside form that it is a really “SICK” program!  I can’t believe I wasted my time with torrents all these years.

I’m going to have to give music box and couch potato a try as well.

Thanks again.

For some reason it will send the file to SNBnzb to Dl, but it doesn’t catagorze it as TV, and even if I manually change it to TV which is set up to use SAB to SICKbeard.ext it still won’t rename any files or put them in the proper place.

I get an error saying

title>Access denied Error 401 Unauthorized: You need to provide a valid username and password.

Thanks for the kind words, and you certainly can filter quality settings. Mouse-over the “Home” button then click on “Add Shows” and then the “Add New Show” buttons. On “Step 3″, “Customize options” you can select the “Preferred quality of episodes to be download.” Set this to “Custom” if you want to precisely pick and choose exactly what “Initial” and what “Archive” quality you want.

For your above example you could select everything up to (but NOT including) “1080p BluRay” and be all set.

Best of luck!

I do have one question though.  Is it possible to filter quality settings, eg Only DL SD, HDTV, 720 etc?

Thanks

Thank you kindly for the compliments!

The two different drives shouldn’t be an issue unless there’s a permission issue going on (such as if you ever ran Sick Beard as root or with sudo, or don’t presently have ownership of the archival disk). Other than that, if Sick Beard is otherwise communicating with SABnzbd+ just fine, I wouldn’t think it’d be a API Key or user/password issue between Sick Beard and SABnzbd+ so hard to guess at other possibilities currently.

You may want to just hop on the Sick Beard IRC channel, or hit up their forum and post your log as they see more problems than I do on a regular basis. Also if you want to send me the full log I can take a look (dae...@gmail.com). Both Sick Beard’s and SABnzbd+’s log may be helpful in this case and you may also want to take a look at the permissions and ownership of the script itself as well as any files it tried to post-process recently but failed.

Best of luck, and when you get this figured let me know how it goes!

With that said, I have a rather annoying bug with SickBeard..
Whenever a download has finished, it isn’t post-processed..
The script log from Sab gives the error: 401 Unauthorized
I don’t know if it’s significant, that download and “TV Archive” are on separate HDD’s..

I hope you can help :)