I posted this yesterday in the Docker forum, but have not had any input. I am re-posting here in General Support in the hope that someone will have some suggestions for me:

 

I am looking for some assistance from someone more knowledgeable on this topic than me. I have been using SAB/SickBeard/CouchPotato for NZB/Usenet grabbing for a couple of years, and am happy with it. However, I do occasionally need to look to torrents to get missing files, and I have friends who don't want to invest in Usenet and rely solely on torrents for their tv/movies.

 

I am looking for some recommendations for applications (ideally that already have a docker container) as well as instructions on setting them up.

 

I tried running Deluge from Needo, but am at a loss on even how I need to configure it (what the hell are eggs?), let alone integrate it with something like Sickbeard that monitors TV shows.

 

I don't know if I should be trying to stick with Deluge, or try transmission, utorrent, rutorrent or who knows what. I also don't see any of these apps offered in containers other than deluge.

 

I am assuming deluge (or whatever app) is basically taking the place of SAB, and I still need a Sickbeard equivalent and CouchPotato equivalent to search for content to get passed to deluge, but maybe I am overcomplicating things.

 

Any suggestions on apps, and detailed installation guides would be really appreciated.

I use Transmission.  The docker works fine.  Whats missing is flexget.  I currently use Phaze's plugin which works.  Im trying to find a decent docker container for flexget so i can mocw verything across from plugins.

 

If i had time i might try and incorporate flexget and transmission in the same container seeing they go hand in hand.

 

Anyway, how it works, flexget monitors the torrent sites and when it sees something you want, it copies the torrent down into a directory where transmission picks it up and downloads.

 

Some other torrent sw have builtin rss readers somthey dont need a 3rd party like flexget.

Thanks Dalben

 

With your flexget/transmission solution is there any process like Sickbeard that keeps track of your shows and knows when the next episode of a given show has been released and can monitor the torrents for it? Is that something flexget does? Or is there another app required for that?

Thanks Dalben

 

With your flexget/transmission solution is there any process like Sickbeard that keeps track of your shows and knows when the next episode of a given show has been released and can monitor the torrents for it? Is that something flexget does? Or is there another app required for that?

 

Flexget can detect a series and download when the next series hits an RSS feed. You can also tell it to download only xx days or hours after the last one.

 

There are examples in the transmission site that allows you to plug into all sorts of things for info.  I'm not that advanced.

 

To be honest I am a very basic user of flexget. It's way more powerful than I'm able to script.

 

Binhex just created a docker for flexget. I'll be giving that a shot shortly.

Thanks Dalben.

 

You mentioned there is a Transmission docker as well? Do you know who posted it? I did see some chatter on it in the Docker forum, but am not clear on who has a proper working container for it.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=34220.msg318339#new

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=34220.msg318339#new

 

Just to clarify, I thought that was just flexget, not transmission. Even when I look through his repository I don't see a transmission container (unless I am blind or missing something).

 

Looks like there's one in gfjardim's repository

Looks like there's one in gfjardim's repository

 

Thanks. I had thought I checked there, but guess I missed it.

 

 

For movies it's easy, CouchPotato works really nice with torrents and Deluge or Transmission. Tested with HDBits and KAT.

 

For Series, SickRage appears to do the trick too, but I'm not certain.

 

Deluge is by far more powerful than Transmission, the Labels plugin is very nice and let you choose different folders to each label. There are GUI's to every known platform too.

For movies it's easy, CouchPotato works really nice with torrents and Deluge or Transmission. Tested with HDBits and KAT.

 

For Series, SickRage appears to do the trick too, but I'm not certain.

 

Deluge is by far more powerful than Transmission, the Labels plugin is very nice and let you choose different folders to each label. There are GUI's to every known platform too.

 

I tried deluge, but it just confused me.

 

I'd be willing to stick with it if there was a good guide on configuring it properly.

 

I tried deluge, but it just confused me.

 

I'd be willing to stick with it if there was a good guide on configuring it properly.

 

I attempted Deluge also (using the container/setup with the docker plugin), and was as confused as you likely were.

 

I could access Deluge, however I could not (for the life of me!) figure out how to send it torrents through the daemon or what have you for the webUI in conjunction with CouchPotato.

It wanted a username and password, however there wasn't one.

If I created one it wouldn't connect to the daemon (or something like that!).

I attempted to modify the file with the username/password in it but that didn't work either.

 

I'd love to have some input on this also, again I could access deluge directly but could not get it to talk to other programs "passing" torrents to it.

Maybe there is a default user name/password or I needed to add a variable or something?