Notifications
This whole tab is optional, if you’re using XBMC you can Enable Sick Beard to send a message to let you know when a show has been downloaded. You can also have Sick Beard update the XBMC Library so that the new content is immediately available in your XBMC Library.
I recommend enabling all the check box options (the first four). If there’s something you don’t care about here skip it. In XBMC, go to System and then Network. If not already set, enable Allow Control of XBMC via HTTP. Set the port to 8082 and leave the password blank (username doesn’t matter).
In Sick Beard set XBMC host to:
127.0.0.1:8082
Leave both the XBMC Username and Password fields blank. To test simply hit the Test XBMC button and XBMC should pop up with a visual and auditory test alert.
If so, you’re golden. If not, verify the above steps and try again.
The rest of the notification options will not be covered in this guide. If you’re interested in them Enable them and fill in the require settings.
Once you’re satisfied, hit the last Save Changes button and move on to the closing! You’re done!
Closing
Well, there you have it, you should now have a fully installed, setup, and configured copy of Sick Beard to call your very own!
I hope you found this guide helpful and easy to read. Please feel free to leave me questions, comments, or feedback. I respond to every comment or question and generally am able to respond fairly quickly (often within minutes or hours). I wont be able to provide support for all issues, but will try to at least offer some helpful advice or ideas you might not have considered and refer you on to the proper support channels.
If you enjoyed this guide be sure to check out my other guides as well!
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Further, if you are able and willing, a donation of any size (no matter how small) will help me get to the point of hopefully one day doing this on a more full-time basis.
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On the following page you can find the Addedum with supplemental software and trouble shooting sections. I have removed my User Guide as Sick Beard simply changes too fast for me to keep up with it. If a 1.0 release is ever reached I will revisit creating a stand-alone guide for the program.
Cheers!
i get /etc/init.d/sickbeard: permission denied
Her Erik,
I need some more details there. You just trying to start Sick Beard or adding the startup entries? What command (exactly) did you run? Are you running Ubuntu or Linux Mint or Other and what version?
Best of luck!
will you please create a PPA for SB?
Howdy Sick Beard enthusiast,
That’s definitely something I may do in the future. Currently however I don’t have the time to commit to something like that and I don’t want to do it unless I can maintain it well enough to keep it regularly updated.
Downloading Sick Beard is pretty straight forward and it includes its own updater so there’s not a big pull to setup a Private Package Archive (PPA) currently.
Cheers and thanks for the request!
Hi,
I am having difficulty with the script. It executes without problems from the terminal but does not start when I reboot.
I am on Ubuntu 11.04.
Hi DubDubZA,
Have you ever ran Sick Beard or the script using sudo? Without additional information I’m guessing that might be the cause of the problem. If you have you’ll need to delete the .sickbeard folder and re-install as the permissions will be messed up for Sick Beard and anything it touches from here on out.
It is possible to reset the permissions if you feel like doing some Google’ing and don’t mind a bit more of a learning curve.
Feel free to let me know how it goes, or if you have any other questions or details.
Best of luck!
I’m having the same problem. I did what you recommended and deleted my ~/.sickbeard directory and started over (hey, it’s quick to do anyway). The service starts and stops just great with a manual invoke of the “/etc/init.d/sickbeard start”, however it does not start on system start. Any ideas?
Hi, I have the same problem. I’ve definitely not run the script using sudo. It works manually, but not on startup.
Ubuntu 11.10
Hi,
This is a very nice guide. I am a noob to Ubuntu and all the good stuff shown here so I don’t know if what I am about to say is really relative or not.
I followed your guide to the letter and did exactly as instructed. Everything worked as described until I got to the point just above where I had to put the autoProcesTV directory in the PostProcessing field in Sab. I put this in and kept on getting an error about not been able to create a script. Adding to that I also could not select the script in Sab-> Categories.
I even made a seperate directory and copied the py scripts into that and tried again. At the end of the day I ran the following command to get it to work:
sudo chmod 777 /home/dracosveen/.sickbeard/autoProcessTV
which then gave the permissions needed and then everything started working as described in your guide.
Been new I have no idea why I had to set the permissions.
Hey Dracoseven,
You may have ran sickbeard with sudo at some point. I’d recommend checking the permissions and ownership of the entire .sickbeard folder and everything in it. It’s likely going to cause you additional problems down the line.
Best of luck!
Hey, thanks for posting this guide. It has been very helpful in setting up this environment.
I’m looking forward to your guide to install Couch Potato. Hopefully it will be posted soon since I need some guidelines to get it installed.
Thanks again!
Hey Linux n00b,
Just for you, I’ll get the Couch Potato guide out by Monday or Tuesday evening. I’ll shoot you an email when it’s done.
Cheers, and thanks for the kind words!
Thanks, looking forward to it!
Still hoping this will be posted soon.
Hey Linux n00b & Powderking!
Apologies for the delay and confusion. I’m currently working on the Couch Potato guide. My guides take about 16 hours from start to finish once I finally get sat down and start writing (not counting the initial research or learning the program or anything of the like) and I needed to get my SABnzbd+ guide updated prior to releasing Couch Potato. Thanks for your patience and interest, it should be out VERY shortly.
In the meantime if you guys are stuck in a certain spot feel free to shoot me an email via my contact page and I’ll see if I have an answer for you.
Cheers!
Hi
Is your guide to Couch Potato already available?
I couldn’t find it. But maybe I’m just a little blind ;-)
I do have some problems too and your SABnzbd+ and Sick Beard were great help! So I hope I can solve my problems with Couch Potato too :-)
Cheers
Hey daemox
First off, your site is pure gold – Not just the guides you write, but also that you find just the software (HeadPhones & Couchpotato) which I need :)
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 :)
Hey The_Eggert,
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!
I tried removing all passwords and user names, which fixed it, so I must have just written the wrong thing somewhere – Thanks for your help :)