The Complete Guide for Setting Up SABnzbd, Sick Beard, CouchPotato, and Headphones

It seems that a good amount of people struggle with setting up SABnzbd, Sick Beard, CouchPotato, and Headphones app. To make things easier, we went ahead and compiled our guides into a 23 page step by step instructional PDF that will walk you through the entire setup. Keep in mind the document is a work in progress. Let us know if you have any suggestions.

This 23 page document gives you a one stop reference point on the following topics:

• How the Automated System Works
• A overview of Usenet
• Explaination of NZB Search Engines
• Overview of SABnzbd
• Installing SABnzbd
• Overview of Sick Beard
• Installing Sick Beard
• Overview of CouchPotato
• Installing CouchPotato
• Overview of Headphones
• Installing Headphones

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Originally Posted by Cabalo

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Sure it's probably safe, but 23 pages? That's a lot of work when the end goal is to just be lazy. Not knocking it, just baffled by the amount of effort put into automation.

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Originally Posted by Cabalo

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Sure it's probably safe, but 23 pages? That's a lot of work when the end goal is to just be lazy. Not knocking it, just baffled by the amount of effort put into automation.

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The guide contains a ton of large screenshots which takes up some space.

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Originally Posted by totalhtpc

It seems that a good amount of people struggle with setting up SABnzbd, Sick Beard, CouchPotato, and Headphones app. To make things easier, we went ahead and compiled our guides into a 23 page step by step instructional PDF that will walk you through the entire setup. Keep in mind the document is a work in progress. Let us know if you have any suggestions.

This 23 page document gives you a one stop reference point on the following topics:

• How the Automated System Works
• A overview of Usenet
• Explaination of NZB Search Engines
• Overview of SABnzbd
• Installing SABnzbd
• Overview of Sick Beard
• Installing Sick Beard
• Overview of CouchPotato
• Installing CouchPotato
• Overview of Headphones
• Installing Headphones

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I followed this one which covers the same apps (I didn't end up installing serviio which it also recommends).

Maybe some less-lazy person can have a quick look and see if there are any interesting differences.

Wow ! Thanks a lot for this tutorial !Its well done

I'm glad I looked at this post, I had never heard of Headphones.

Thanks

Interesting stuff. Will definitely browse this tonight. I've never gotten couch potato to work properly (at least I can't tell if I have) so I hope this guide gives me some pointers.

Guide updated on March 2014.

Nice - thanks for the update!

It might help to let everyone know that nzbmatrix is no longer available in the guide...

Just busy getting all of this, thanks alot. Very usefull!

we definitely need a guide for nzbget as well. happened to try it over the weekend and it was great on my resource constrained plug server.

Thanks a lot for this tutorial :D

Anyone know how to adjust Sickbeard for Scene mess ups ?

For example a show called Tanked is being released as Season 5, when TVDB and all the others are saying it is Season 4 ?

Cheers

Great guide and even though I use NZBGet, then this was helpful, since there are very similar settings.

Been using this for about 2 years now. Awesome. Completely awesome. There's another app Mylar which handles Comics. It's newer and I had to fool around with it for awhile in order to get it to work but I got it. I'm not a big Comic guy but I do read Walking Dead.

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Anyone know how to adjust Sickbeard for Scene mess ups ?
For example a show called Tanked is being released as Season 5, when TVDB and all the others are saying it is Season 4 ?
Cheers

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When you say "It's being released as Season 5", do you mean that's how you received it via SAB?
You should be able to manually edit the file & foldername, then run post processing, and Sickbeard will know where to put it and rename it correctly.

I'm not sure how you have yours setup but for instance, mine would be
Tanked--> Tanked Season 05 -- Tanked S05E01, Tanked S05E02, Tanked S05E03, etc etc etc..

If you change it to S04 it will know what to do with the files.

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Originally Posted by exectech24

Been using this for about 2 years now. Awesome. Completely awesome. There's another app Mylar which handles Comics. It's newer and I had to fool around with it for awhile in order to get it to work but I got it. I'm not a big Comic guy but I do read Walking Dead.

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Originally Posted by madjock

Anyone know how to adjust Sickbeard for Scene mess ups ?
For example a show called Tanked is being released as Season 5, when TVDB and all the others are saying it is Season 4 ?
Cheers

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When you say "It's being released as Season 5", do you mean that's how you received it via SAB?
You should be able to manually edit the file & foldername, then run post processing, and Sickbeard will know where to put it and rename it correctly.

I'm not sure how you have yours setup but for instance, mine would be
Tanked--> Tanked Season 05 -- Tanked S05E01, Tanked S05E02, Tanked S05E03, etc etc etc..

If you change it to S04 it will know what to do with the files.

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No, they are being released as Season 05, when in fact the Season is listed as 04 on Tvdb, So Sickbeard cant call them or download them.

Interesting

Thanks for the guide.

I must be the only person who doesn't automate anything, not even unpacking or starting NZBs after they're added...