saajan4u 79 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 hey lovely people ! any of you have a step by step user guide. i mean baby step by step guide i had a look and it all went over ! cheers Black Peter Griffin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 http://www.totalhtpc.com/ultimate-usenet-guide.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jluce50 118 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Assuming you're on Windows, here's a pretty simple guide: http://www.htpcbeginner.com/easier-way-to-install-sick-beard-on-windows/ They have other guides if you're on a different OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) @@saajan4u - use Sonarr (NzbDrone) instead if you're just starting out. http://www.htpcguides.com/configure-nzbdrone-for-usenet-tv/ There's also this thread: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/8249-sonarr-nzbdrone/ . Edited March 11, 2015 by CBers 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerothen 89 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 @@saajan4u - use Sonarr (NzbDrone) instead if you're just starting out. http://www.htpcguides.com/configure-nzbdrone-for-usenet-tv/ There's also this thread: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/8249-sonarr-nzbdrone/ . CBers is right, it works quite a bit better than sickbeard. I switched after a few years of sickbeard and havent even thought about looking back. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14918 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Another vote for Sonarr. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I personally switched to sickrage the other day and like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Save yourself a lot of headache and avoid Sickbeard and the junk that is current state of NZBs Use Sickrage and uTorrent instead. Here is a great guide http://assassinhtpcblog.com/downloading/ The guide says sickbeard, but if you follow the steps it's actually for sickrage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerothen 89 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Save yourself a lot of headache and avoid Sickbeard and the junk that is current state of NZBs Use Sickrage and uTorrent instead. Here is a great guide http://assassinhtpcblog.com/downloading/ The guide says sickbeard, but if you follow the steps it's actually for sickrage. Did you know that Sonarr actually has Torrent support now also? I have muddled with it and it seems to work pretty well, haven't started using it full time since I don't have a good proxy for torrenting and copying from the seedbox is reasonably slow compared to usenet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swhitmore 781 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Save yourself a lot of headache and avoid Sickbeard and the junk that is current state of NZBs Use Sickrage and uTorrent instead. Here is a great guide http://assassinhtpcblog.com/downloading/ The guide says sickbeard, but if you follow the steps it's actually for sickrage. Please don't use uTorrent. uTorrent's latest update installs a cryptocurrency miner. I use Deluge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techywarrior 688 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I don't use it but uTorrent only installs that crypto currency miner if you don't notice the check boxes and/or prompt about accepting the ToS of the miner. Not that I approve of software installing third party applications but it's not doing it silently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Right. Heck java installs the dumb ask.com toolbar if you don't tell it not to Also once you follow the guide linked above you rarely ever have to touch utorrent. Sickrage searches, adds the best marched release to utorrent, checks the competed folder, moves and renames it, then deletes the leftover trash. Utorrent is lower on resources then transmission in my experience, plus it has a webui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 FWIW, all ISPs in the UK are to ban access to all Pirate Bay proxy sites. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31832137 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overseer 66 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 @@saajan4u - use Sonarr (NzbDrone) instead if you're just starting out. http://www.htpcguides.com/configure-nzbdrone-for-usenet-tv/ There's also this thread: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/8249-sonarr-nzbdrone/ . After reading that thread several weeks ago I set-up Sonarr/SabNZB on my mediaserver and I haven't touched my Usenet newsgoups downloader since then. Sonarr/Sab/MBS for a great handsfree setup and I don't miss a show. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 After reading that thread several weeks ago I set-up Sonarr/SabNZB on my mediaserver and I haven't touched my Usenet newsgoups downloader since then. Sonarr/Sab/MBS for a great handsfree setup and I don't miss a show. If you continue using Usenet you will miss shows. I used it for years, and there was a time when it was great. Now it fails on all kinds of shows with or without the "verified only" check box on in Sab. Too many unpackable archives that have had one or two r files squashed. Even on popular ota HD releases. Switched to sickrage and utorrent and no problem since. Assassins guide is very helpful if you've never set anything like this up before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jluce50 118 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 If you continue using Usenet you will miss shows. I used it for years, and there was a time when it was great. Now it fails on all kinds of shows with or without the "verified only" check box on in Sab. Too many unpackable archives that have had one or two r files squashed. Even on popular ota HD releases. Switched to sickrage and utorrent and no problem since. Assassins guide is very helpful if you've never set anything like this up before In my experience, it really depends on which indexer(s) you use. Some of them (e.g. usernet-crawler.com) don't do any filtering. The better ones (e.g. pfmonkey.com, nzb.su) do a pretty good job at removing links to bad uploads. Good indexers combined with a good primary and good fill accounts make for a pretty good experience. I get all my shows/movies and VERY rarely have any issues with bad/unavailable files. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 If you continue using Usenet you will miss shows. I used it for years, and there was a time when it was great. Now it fails on all kinds of shows with or without the "verified only" check box on in Sab. Too many unpackable archives that have had one or two r files squashed. Even on popular ota HD releases. Switched to sickrage and utorrent and no problem since. Assassins guide is very helpful if you've never set anything like this up before Currently tracking 87 active series and have missed 4 episodes through automation. Some series take a day or two to appear but they do show up. Sonarr does help with this because if one NZB fails, it will use the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelmino 17 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Sonarr over Sickbeard/Sickrage any day of the week. Not only does it look nicer (Not the biggest deal I guess), but it's so much easier to install, configure, and use in general. I've also noticed it used less resources on my computer then sickrage or sickbeard did. I started out with Sickbeard about two years ago, I moved over to Sickrage because of the torrent support, but neither one of them were super stable for me (I did use the dev branches though) and ended up switching to Sonarr last year, and OMG what a difference. The install was simple, the UI is very nice and easy to use, and it never crashes unlike Sickrage/SickBeard. If a file fails to download it tries to grab the next file. If it can't find it on Usenet it moves over to torrents. What more could you ask for? I don't need to manage it, it just goes. I have 155 series currently that I'm tracking and downloading through Sonarr throughout the year, Most nights I'm downloading 6+ shows Last month I downloaded 194 TV Shows, out of those shows 11 downloaded through Torrent sites, the rest through usenets. 3 also never downloaded at all (Crappy wife show). Sonarr is picking up the shows, downloading them (At full ISP Speed) renaming them, moving them to the right folder, and Media Browser shows them within an hour of them airing (90% of the time) if not though, they're always there the next day. The only ones I have to wait are shows for the wife, they almost never go up that night and it's about a 50/50 shot to download through torrents and not usenets. But there's nothing wrong with Usenets. If you don't mind spending the 10 bucks a month plus the 20 bucks or so a year, then it's definitely the way to go. You can't beat downloading a TV show within 3-4 minutes and not needing to upload it back for X amount of days. Torrents still have their place though, older content on torrents is usually best, but for those daily/new TV shows Usenet for sure. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Lol, I guess it's not already clear enough that I've been there done that. Adding little blocks here and there from places that "delay" processing of takedowns like tweaknews and lots of different indexers. It may end up grabbing something eventually, but like I said if you just *try* switching to sickrage and utorrent you will see. Everything always works, the end I avoided it for a long time because midetspy was so adamantly against supporting it with anything other than "black hole" support in sickbeard. Then there was mr-orange's fork which was okay for a while, but when something like that stops seeing updates all the search providers need manual modifications to work again. Along came echel0n, who not only picked up mr-orange's fork but added support for tvrage as well as the existing tvdb support. Slicked up the interface and added a crap-ton more search providers, then started calling it sickrage instead of sickbeard-tvrage. It's updated a lot, and honestly the best thing out there for this currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 To each their own @@Kelmino I posted this before seeing your post. Not really directed at you suggesting you *try* sickrage, but that being said I've never ever had sickrage crash. It did have some growing pains early on, updates not working, etc. That's not an issue for many months now though, but I can't understand it crashing. Did Python crash or was it stuck in an update? I'm grasping at guesses just because it's always been so stable for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saajan4u 79 Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Dark_slayer do I have to run the application or can just run a service for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Dark_slayer do I have to run the application or can just run a service for it? Run the application, but you can make a shortcut to sickrage.py on your desktop then cut/paste that into your startup folder. In W8 you can still get to the startup folder easily by opening windows explorer and typing shell:startup into the address bar and press enter. Right click the SickRage.py file and select "Open With" and choose pythonw.exe (not python.exe). I also change the config (within sickrage) to prevent it from opening the browser every time The assassinhtpc link I posted is pretty step by step. That's how I have it setup as well -Install Python 2.7.x (64 bit is fine) -Make python a system environment variable (Python asks if you want to do this in the install ~ add python to path) -Download cheetah and unpack it to an "install" directory (I keep everything in it's own folder under C:\Apps like the assassin guide, so I have C:\Apps\Python C:\Apps\Cheetah C:\Apps\Sickrage etc) -Open a CMD window and cd to the Cheetah directory. Run "python setup.py install" without quotes. It should say pure python install completed and you can close the window -Use the "download zip" button from the sickrage github, and unpack the zip to the "Install" directory (again, I use C:\Apps\Sickrage but you can run it from wherever you want just make sure you don't delete it) -Right click the Sickrage.py and choose open with pythonw.exe Early on there were issues updating sickrage from the zip download, and a lot of guides will say you need to install github and sync to update and other garbage. It's not the case anymore (fortunately), so you don't need git installed whatsoever for sickrage to run (master branch) and update currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futrader8 3 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This is all very interesting. I have been using regular Sickbeard with NewsDemon as my provider for several years and have rarely had a bad download for tv shows. It just works for me. Oh well, to each his own I guess. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This is all very interesting. I have been using regular Sickbeard with NewsDemon as my provider for several years and have rarely had a bad download for tv shows. It just works for me. Oh well, to each his own I guess. I am with you. My setup works automatically and behind the scenes. Don't really have to do anything but tell it what shows to monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This is all very interesting. I have been using regular Sickbeard with NewsDemon as my provider for several years and have rarely had a bad download for tv shows. It just works for me. Oh well, to each his own I guess. I am with you. My setup works automatically and behind the scenes. Don't really have to do anything but tell it what shows to monitor. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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