Sickbeard & SABnzbd

Sickbeard

All the information about Sickbeard can be found on the official site – http://sickbeard.com/

This guide was created using Virtual Box, Version 3 of Open Media Vault and recent Sickbeard code from Git Hub. As I running the server from a compact flash card I have created a new share and mapped it to /opt and this will be the location for all applications. The compact flash card is only 4 gig and it not as fast as I like it to be and that’s why I have taken this approach.

NOTE: Just realised that this will keep the data drive constantly active and it’ll never have a chance for it to spin down 😦 . So changed tack and will buy a new larger OS drive and use it to handle all temporary files, database etc.

I’ve ssh’d into the server and will be using an account that is a member of SUDO.

As Open Media Vault doesn’t have Python, Python-Cheetah, Git installed as default we have to sort that out.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install python python-cheetah git

It will take about 30 meg once installed

Use the following to commands to check version

python -V returns 2.6.6
git version returns 1.7.2.5

That’s the ground work done and now for the installation

cd /opt
git clone git://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git /opt/sickbeard

at this point I received and error – permission denied, so went back to Open Media Vault gui, Access Rights Management / Shared Folders  and checked that my user had Read / Write access to /opt in Privileges and Read / Write in ACL – it didn’t. I also made sure that no other users could access this folder. This didn’t work either so I can ownership to xbmc with

sudo chown {your user name}:nogroup /opt

and that did the trick, tried installing again(up arrow several times will save you typing it again – but I SURE  that you knew that)

git clone git://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git /opt/sickbeard

Cloning into etc …… then all done.

Check that it’s working by

cd /op/sickbeard
python Sickbeard.py

You should see something like this

Starting up Sick Beard master from /opt/sickbeard/config.ini
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Checking database structure...
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Initial Schema
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Tvr Id
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Tvr Name
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Airdate Index
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Numeric Providers
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: New Quality Settings
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Attempting to back up your sickbeard.db file before migration...
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Done backup, proceeding with migration.
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Drop Old History Table
16:48:42 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Upgrade History For Generic Providers
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Air By Date Option
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Change Sab Config From Ip To Host
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Fix Sab Host
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Lang
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Populate Root Dirs
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Set Nzb Torrent Settings
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Provider Womble's Index is enabled, enabling NZBs in the upgrade
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Fix Air By Date Setting
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Checking database structure...
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Initial Schema
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Scene Exceptions
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Database upgrade required: Add Scene Name Cache
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: No duplicate episode, check passed
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Starting Sick Beard on http://0.0.0.0:8081/
16:48:43 INFO::MAIN :: Loading initial show list
16:48:43 INFO::CHECKVERSION :: Checking if git needs an update
16:48:43 INFO::SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: Changing all old missing episodes to status WANTED
16:48:43 INFO::SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: Beginning search for new episodes on RSS
16:48:43 INFO::SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: Searching all providers for any needed episodes
16:48:44 INFO::SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: Clearing Womble's Index cache and updating with new information
16:48:44 INFO::CHECKVERSION :: No update needed
16:48:48 INFO::SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: No needed episodes found on the RSS feeds

Notice the location of the config file and the http address, in my case
config file /opt/sickbeard.
address: http://0.0.0.0:8181

Obviously we need to change this so stop Sickbeard with a control+c and make a back up befoe firing up nano

cp /opt/sickbeard/config.ini /opt/sickbeard/config.ini.bak
nano /opt/sickbeard/config.ini

Default is quite long but we are only going to edit the first section…

Original
[General]
log_dir = Logs
web_port = 8081
web_host = 0.0.0.0
web_ipv6 = 0

New
[General]
log_dir = Logs
web_port = 8081
web_host = {ip address of your server}
web_ipv6 = 0

Control + o to save and Control + x to exit.

Check that it runs again

python Sickbeard.py

and in a browser http://{your ip address}:8081

I have break for a bit now but will add the autostart feature

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SABnzbd

Before we install SabNZBd there are some dependancies that need to be resolved. Some of these can be download from http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/install-off-modules or install via apt-get.

sudo apt-get install python-openssl python-yenc par2 unzip

Download UNRAR x64 and put into /usr/sbin

wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x64-4.1.1.tar.gz
tar zxcf rarlinux-x64-4.1.1.tar.gz
cd unrar
sudo mv ./rar/unrar /usr/sbin

Now lets the source from Sourceforge.

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sabnzbdplus/files/sabnzbdplus/sabnzbd-0.6.15/SABnzbd-0.6.15-src.tar.gz/download
tar zxf  SABnzbd-0.6.15-src.tar.gz

when first run SABnzbd will create some files in the users home directory as I want everything contained so i’ve moved everything from ~/.sabnzbd to /opt/sabnzbd. I like using midnight commander – if you don’t have it then sudo apt-get install mc

nano sabnzbd.ini

find the host entry and change to your ip, once you done this run it by

python SABnzbd.py -c sabnzbd.ini

SABnzb can now be access via http://{your ip}:8080 and your can complete the online wizard.