So I am a newbie at this. Already created a thread in the general forum but not sure if that was the right place and no one seemed to be helping out except influencer himself. I have spent the entire day now trying to get this to work and nothing is working.

 

I installed sickbeard and sabznbd to my cache drive using the influencer plugins.

 

However, I can't find any instructions or guides on how to actually configure them!

 

Main issue: When I go to config categories in sabznbd, and type say "TV", When i click the drop down box to select a script that is in the wiki guide (sabtosickbeard or something), no scripts are displayed there!

 

It is either "Default or none"

 

I am really stuck here because I don't know what to do and how to configure these two programs!

 

I installed the pluging correctly, and it is supposed to work. But how come I am not seeing the script from the dropdown?

Ok, no panic first things first. I've read from your other post(s) that you have installed both sickbeard and sabnzb to your cache drive, but by the looks of it, you are only using the cache drive as data directory, and you have not actually installed the 'programs' there. I would suggest you make sure the programs are installed on the cache drive as well, this will make it easier navigating and explaining.

 

Go to the settings in simplefeatures, for both sab & sick, and make sure the install and data folder are on the cache drive and press apply. This will (re)copy/install everything to the cache drive.

 

Now you can at least navigate and browse from your explorer. If you have done this, and you can actually find the sickbeard and sabnzbd folders using your windows explorer, let me know and i'll walk you through the rest.

Most importantly, you need to go in to the sab options, under folders, and set the Post-Processing scripts folder.  Mine is /mnt/disk1/apps/sickbeard/autoProcessTV

 

obviously change the directory to what is appropriate for your environment.  You also need to go in to that folder and rename the autoProcessTV.sample to autoProcessTV.  After that you should see that script when you configure your categories in sab.

 

 

That's the problem. I can create that folder but nothing is there. It is empty.

what do you have for "data directory" in the settings?  refer the the sreenshots posted by jowi

Here are the settings that I have

Ok, change Install directory from /usr/local/sabnzbd to /mnt/cache/apps/sabnzbd

 

Do the same with sickbeard's settings, so BOTH are installed on the CACHE disk.

 

Press apply on both.

Okay guys I will follow your instructions, but influencer (who's plugin I used) gave me some different instructions to move some files.

 

Would it be too much troulb eif you guys replied in that thred?

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=22828.0

 

Just so I don't have to keep looking in two different places. I'm sorry and didnt mean to create two threads but I was really panicking after working on this all day yesterday and couldn't really get anyone to help me.

Oh by the way guys, I just realized. After setting up these configurations, I never did a reboot of my entire server. I only brought the array on/off line because I am preclearing some disks at this time. Could that be the issue???

 

*EDIT* Okay I have changed the install directory to what you said so it is now the same as the DATA directory. However, when I do that, the data directory for some reason gets unchecked.

*** Yes, it seems like the DATA folder gets unchecked right away, so I can't have them pointing to the same folder?

 

Okay so I added another /data, to the data folder so that the install and data folder aren't the same, and it stayed this time.

 

So the plugins are now installed to the cache drive.

 

I logged into SABNZBD, went through the wizard again, but when I went to config, folder, and try to add the TV category

 

The only scripts I get from the dropdown are : repair, unpack, delete.

 

I don't know how to set up any other settings in sab either.

 

Now what do I do?

Oh wow! I just went back and pointed the scripts again to the autoprocess.tv folder and I Can see the scripts from the drop down menu now! Thank you guys!!!

 

But I still don't know what I need to do and/or what script to select. What should I do guys?

You should take things slow, you're moving too fast...

 

First, go to sabznbd settings, 'general', SABnzbd Web Server, and generate an API key (press generate key), and copy that key to the clipboard.

 

Then, goto SICKBEARDSearch Options, fill the copied key in the SABnzbd API Key field and set http://localhost:8081/  for SABnzbd URL.

 

Fill in the SABnzbd Category name with e.g. 'tvseries'. We need that later on.

 

Press save changes, and see if sickbeard can 'find' sabnzbd by pressing the 'TEST SABNZBD' button.

Jowi, you are amazing, thank you so much for helping me out and with the screen shots! Are you doing this in real time? We should save this thread, because all the guides are so onfusing and skip a lot of these steps!

 

I did everything you stated.

 

Sickbeard says: "Success. Connected and authenticated" when I click to test sabnzbd

Yep realtime

 

Now go to sabnzbd, and add a categorie for 'tvseries' with the SAME name you've used in sickbeard. This will make sure that when sickbeard sends it's nzb to sab, sab will 'treat' it as a tv serie, and call the appropriate post processing script.

 

Choose 'sabtosickbeard.py' as script, and enter your UNRAID TV SERIES USER SHARE path in the folder/path.

The script will basically give the control back to sickbeard, once it is downloaded.

 

After that, we go back to sickbeard once again, but first we need to edit a file.

Use windows explorer, and navigate to your unraid cache disk/ app folder. In the folder where the sab2sickbeard.py and other scripts are, there is a file called autoProcessTV.cfg.sample. RENAME that file to

autoProcessTV.cfg 

 

edit the contents (using notepad e.g.) so the PORT number is the port number where sickbeard can be found.

(I assume you don't use usernames and passwords for the apps)

 

[sickBeard]
host=localhost
port=8082
username=
password=
web_root=
ssl=0

 

and save the file.

Yep realtime

 

Now go to sabnzbd, and add a categorie for 'tvseries' with the SAME name you've used in sickbeard. This will make sure that when sickbeard sends it's nzb to sab, sab will 'treat' it as a tv serie, and call the appropriate post processing script.

 

Choose 'sabtosickbeard.py' as script, and enter your UNRAID TV SERIES USER SHARE path in the folder/path.

The script will basically give the control back to sickbeard, once it is downloaded.

 

After that, we go back to sickbeard once again, but first we need to edit a file.

 

Quick question, if I enter the unraid user share in the path... Wouldn't that keep writing all the .rar files to share before it is checked, extracted and renamed?

 

I was hoping to do all of that on the cache drive and only move and rename the file when the actual avi or mkv is extracted?

 

Just to avoid constantly spinning up the drives throughout the download.

Now go to sickbeard's settings again, and go to the post processing part.

Enter the location of your unraid tv series shared folder, .e.g. "/mnt/user/TV Series" in the TV download dir.

 

(mine is empty because i wrote my own post processing )

 

Tick the 'rename episodes' and scan and process checkboxes. This will rename your episodes and fill in the episode title (which usually is missing).

 

That's about it... maybe you have to change the permissions on the folder where your scripts are so it has executable rights, keep that in mind if you see strange things or if it does not work.

 

So, now you can go to sickbeard, add your favorite tv shows, and sickbeard and sab will do the rest...

Quick question, if I enter the unraid user share in the path... Wouldn't that keep writing all the .rar files to share before it is checked, extracted and renamed?

You should set the sabnzbd temporary download folder to e.g. "/mnt/cache/Apps/sabnzbd/Downloads/incomplete".

So it will place temporary parts on the cache, repairs on cache, and only the result will be unpacked directly to the correct /tvseries/seriesname/season nr/episode folder and picked up by sickbeard again and renamed

Use windows explorer, and navigate to your unraid cache disk/ app folder. In the folder where the sab2sickbeard.py and other scripts are, there is a file called autoProcessTV.cfg.sample. RENAME that file to

autoProcessTV.cfg 

 

edit the contents (using notepad e.g.) so the PORT number is the port number where sickbeard can be found.

(I assume you don't use usernames and passwords for the apps)

 

[sickBeard]
host=localhost
port=8082
username=
password=
web_root=
ssl=0

 

and save the file.

 

I can't find the folder with the scripts

When I navigate with windows explorer to the autoProcessTV folder in apps/sickbeard directory I get a message that says "permission denied" and I can't open it.

Im still stuck at this step

Guys, how do I enable permissions to this folder so that I could do this step?

Now you have to telnet into your unraid server...  do you have putty installed?

If not, get it here : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

 

and create a session with the ip adress of your unraid machine, and open the connection, use 'root' as password when you log in...

 

*edit*  or maybe if you go into the plugin settings and make sickbeard run as 'nobody' in stead of 'root', the folder is accessable?

thanks bud.

 

Yep, putty is installed. I used it to install screen for preclearing...

 

I typed in root and ready for your instructions

 

ok, navigate to the sickbeard folder, if i'm correct:

cd /mnt/cache/apps/sickbeard

 

and enter the command:

chmod 777 autoProcessTV

 

go into the folder:

cd autoProcessTV

 

and enter the command:

chmod 777 *.*

 

(now i will get comments of angry linux purist fans but hey... who cares )

 

If all is well you should now be able to open the folder and edit the .cfg file.

Okay got it, was able to do the things you said and add the correct port number.

 

So when I go to sickbeard and click on add show, what should I select as the "Parent Folder" rod I just leave that blank?

 

Or should I select the name of the show folder on the share?

How would it know to create a subfolder for each seperate season?

 

Also, where do I set the setting for sabnzbd to repair, and unrar the files? Or is that already automatically done?

 

Lastly, how would I know if there is an incomplete archive and there is not enough .par files for a repair?

You should point to your tvseries share in sickbeard, e.g. /mnt/user/TVseries. Each added show will be a subfolder there.

 

In sabnzbd set your temporary download folder to e.g. /mnt/cache/apps/sabnzbd/download/incomplete

 

sabnzbd will try to repair, if it failes, it wil let you know. I even looks for extra pars by itself.