You can also install Sick Beard on Linux, but we won't be covering that here although the Linux installation process is not much different from the one for Mac OS X.
Sick Beard isn't as simple to set up as the software in the BitTorrent section of this tutorial, but it's still pretty easy and it provides much more advanced functionality. It can also facilitate BitTorrent downloads as well as Usenet. First we'll take a look at installing Sick Beard on Windows which is very easy , then Mac OS X which is a little more work , and then take a look at how to use Sick Beard's web interface on any platform.
Note: Before we get started, you should know that Sick Beard requires that you have Usenet access and you use SABnzbd as your Usenet binary downloader.
It can work with BitTorrent as well, but we're only covering Usenet here. If you haven't taken care of this already, read our guide on setting up Usenet , which will walk you through the entire process in three easy steps with video. Unzip Sick Beard to whatever folder you'd like it to live in it's really up to you , then launch the installed executable. There's really nothing to installing Sick Beard on Windows, so if you're a Windows user, you can jump down to the Using Sick Beard section below.
Sick Beard isn't available as an executable for Mac, but installing the necessary software to run it and update it is very easy. While the following instructions may seem a little daunting, especially if you're not comfortable with the command line, it's actually very easy. In most cases you should be able to complete the installation in just a few minutes.
Here's how to do it. First, if you're not running Mac OS X You can try it, but we can't promise Sick Beard will run. If you are running Mac OS X Downloading and installing Git is very easy because it's packaged up for you.
You just double-click on the installer once you've downloaded it, run through the usual installer screens, let the installer do its thing, and then you're done. Cheetah requires a tiny bit more effort to install. Once terminal is open, type cd , a space, and then drag the folder containing Cheetah onto the terminal window. This should add the path to the Cheetah folder to command you've started typing.
For most of you, it should look like this:. Press enter, then type this command or just copy and paste it into your Terminal window :. Press enter and you'll be asked for your password. Type it in, press enter again, and then Cheetah will install. This should only take about a minute. Once Cheetah has been installed, we can start installing Sick Beard.
If any of the following does not work, try quitting and reopening Terminal and trying again. Before we start the installation, we have to decide where to install Sick Beard.
I like it in my Applications folder, but you can put it anywhere you want. To put it in your applications folder, enter the following into Terminal and press enter:. Now that you're in the folder where you want to install Sick Beard, we need to download all the files from Git. To do that, enter the following command:. Once Git has finished downloading all the Sick Beard files to your Applications folder or wherever you chose to put them , you'll have a folder called Sick-Beard.
To start Sick-Beard, just enter the following in Terminal and press enter:. The first time Sick Beard starts up it should take a little longer than usual, so don't worry if nothing happens for 30 seconds or so. When Sick Beard is ready to go, it will open in a new window or tab in your default web browser.
That's it, you're done! When you want to update Sickbeard, you can do so easily with the following Terminal commands note that the first line contains the path to Sick Beard, so if you installed it somewhere other than applications you'll need to change the path :. Just make sure you shut down Sick Beard before you update. That's it! Special thanks to jetshred for the great instructions! Sick Beard is very easy to use, as its function is to make downloading shows a simple and automated process.
If you want to access Sick Beard from another computer, just replace localhost with the local IP address of the machine that's running Sick Beard. Once you get to the main screen pictured to the right , you can add shows to Sick Beard by clicking the "Add Show" button in the episode list.
This might be confusing at first because if you have no shows added to Sick Beard, how could you possible add an existing show? An "Existing Show" is defined by Sick Beard as a show that already has a folder on your hard drive.
This means that if you've used SABnzbd or something else to download a show and it's already in your SABnzbd downloads folder, it counts as an existing show. If you have no previously-created folder for a show, however, it is considered a "New Show" and you'll want to choose that option.
Adding a new show is very simple. First, search for the show you want. After a few seconds, Sick Beard will return a list of shows it recognizes. It will, most likely, automatically choose the show you want. If not, just select that show from the list. Click next to move to step two, which will let you select a download location. Do this, then move on to step three and select download options for the show. When you're done, click "Add Show. If you chose existing shows, you'll be first asked to manage the directories that Sick Beard works with.
Click the "New" button in the Manage Directories panel pictured to the right and browse to the directory that holds your TV show downloads. Once you select it, Sick Beard will read the downloads folder and give you a list of all the shows it finds.
Uncheck any of the shows you don't want to add and then click the Submit button. You can schedule music, comic books, video games, and practically anything else as a download with minimal effort. In this post, we'll look at how to set up existing scripts to acquire all kinds of media and use a tool called FlexGet to handle the rest.
Show the supply chain who's boss Get a head start on your holiday shopping at Amazon, Target, Best Buy, and more. All the tools in this guide work with BitTorrent, which you should set up securely before you do anything else. Your computer can act like an internet personal video recorder, downloading TV episodes as soon as they air, thanks to the assistance of an app called Sick Beard.
You simply install it, tell it the shows you want to track, how you want to download those shows via either BitTorrent or Usenet , and let it do the rest. Follow these steps to install it:. Download the latest versions of Git and Cheetah. Don't worry that Cheetah's old. I've been using the same version since Snow Leopard. It works great on Lion and Mountain Lion. Install Git via the included installer. Your final chommand should look something like. Cheetah will install in about a minute's time.
When Sick Beard completes the installation, run it by entering this command in your terminal window:. Once Sick Beard is up and running, point your web browser of choice to localhost to get started. Sick Beard is a powerful tool and it requires some configuration. Before you start adding your favorite shows, hop into the config section and set up the following:. After completing the initial setup, add the TV shows you want to track from Sick Beard's interface.
If you need help adding shows, as the process is a little confusing the first time around, consult our complete Sick Beard guide. Couch Potato keeps track of all the films you want to watch, and downloads them, too. Installation is easy on both Windows and OS X:. With Couch Potato open in your web browser, click the Cog icon up top to get it set up. Here's an overview of each tab and what you can set up:. The other sections are not required, but feel free to explore to discover more of Couch Potato's features.
Once you're done with the configuration, use the toolbar up top to search for a movie, select the desired quality e. Repeat this process for any movie you want to track and download. Couch Potato will take care of the rest. Tracking new releases of your favorite music, automatically downloading songs, and converting those songs into your format of preference is really easy with a tool called Headphones.
It can even pull lyrics and album art for the songs it downloads. Download the Headphones source files from GitHub. Unzip the source and place it wherever you want. OS X users should keep it in thier Applications folder. Launch Headphones. Windows users can launch it by right clicking on the Headphones. If you're setting up other services mentioned in this post, Headphones will likely have a conflicting port of Upon running the Headphones.
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