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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Installing Sickbeard on Synology NAS - Newbie Guide

** Please Note , SickBeard is now available through the SynoCommunity under the other sources tab**

Sickbeard has become very a popular PVR application to help you organize and mange your TV show.  It has the ability to grab your favorite shows as soon as they are available. For more info on sickbeard visit http://sickbeard.com/index.html

This is a step by step guide on how to install Sickbeard for your Synology NAS ( this example was performed on a Synology DS211J 2-Bay NAS)

* Important to note that Sickbeard won't work on its own its more like an addon for Sabnzbd and helps to organize your TV shows and makes it hassle free. In this guide I am assuming that you have installed Sabnzbd successfully. If not I will hopefully get around to writing a walkthrough later on but if you do a bit of googling you will see that it can be done quite easily through package management.

Installing Sickbeard

the very first step is to login to your synology NAS, via the IP address example (my ip is 192.168.1.2) visit http://192.168.1.2 in your browser where you will be asked to login to the Synology web interface

Login with the account you created when you setup the NAS, Goto Control panel and under Terminal Make sure that SSH is enabled.

Now you can login to your server using a SSH client such as (Putty) connect to the ip address of your server. When prompted for username/password , enter the username as root and password as the password you used when first setting up your synology. **Important -- if you don't login as root user you will have permission errors when trying to compile packages later on.

Step 1. Install IPKG Bootstrap

the first step is to install the boostrap on your system,  you will need to get the correct boostrap that corresponds to the kind of CPU your NAS has.

you can find out which CPU your nas has at

Find out which Bootstrap my NAS uses

Once you've found the one you need , download the boostrap file in .xsh format from

Download your Bootstrap

Once you've identified which bootstrap you need , copy the link to the boostrap download jump onto putty and login to the server. Navigate to a temporary folder so that you can unpack and install the boostrap. (remember these instructions are specific to the ds211j so remember to double check the boostrap you are installing)

mkdir -p /volume1/@tmp
cd /volume1/@tmp/

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable/syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh 

sh http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable/syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh

rm http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable/syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh

ipkg update
ipkg upgrade

You will need the git package to install updates for Sickbeard as they are released.

ipkg install git

Now navigate to the directory you wish to install SickBeard in 

mkdir /volume1/@tmp/Sickbeard
cd /volume1/@tmp/Sickbeard

Download and install the latest version of Sickbeard

git clone git://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git sickbeard

Now you need to edit the start up script to set SickBeard to start automatically 

vi /var/packages/sab2/target/scripts/sabstart.sh

This is where a lot of people get stuck using the linux vi editor , the above line will get you into the sabstart.sh config file.  If you use the down arrow to get to the very bottom and start typing you can hit enter to reach the next line.

  Add the following line to the sabstart.sh file 

$DIR/utils/bin/python /volume1/@tmp/Sickbeard/SickBeard.py --quiet & 

Once you have typed the above line into the file press the ESCAPE key, Hold Shift and Press :

to save and exit type wq and hit ENTER
to exit without saving type q! and hit Enter 

To Allow Sabnzbd to process your request from SB , type the following


ln -s /var/packages/sab2/target/utils/bin/python /usr/bin/python

Thats it for now, log back into the web interface and restart your device, Once your device restarts you should be able to access through http://devicenameorip:8081

Updating SickBeard 

To update SickBeard either manually or through the web interface you will need the following packages. The following packages will also correct the issue where SB can't find the GIT executable or get the error  Unable to find your git executable - either delete your .git folder and run from source OR set git_path in your config.ini to enable updates. also double check your config.ini file for the correct GIT path.

ipkg install coreutils
ipkg install git-manpages 
  
Then navigate to your SB installation directory and get the update

cd /volume1/@tmp/sickbeard/
git pull  

Thats pretty much it for the SickBeard installation , the only thing left to do is to copy the contents of the folder autoprocessTV which is located in the sickbeard directory. goto the autoprocessTV direcotry and copy the contents into a the sabnzbd script folder

cp * destination_path  

remember to fill in the username/password if you have set one up for SB , inside the autoprocessTV.cfg file otherwise it will fail. To specify the script in sabnzbd 

goto Config -> Switches and select your desired script 
 there you have it , all done... any questions let me know

** Update **

New version of Sabnzbd 0.6.9

slight confusion, set your pre-queue user script to NONE

and under switches set the script for TV shows to SabtoSickbeard.py , remembering to your sickbeard settings to make sure the tv category is set to use the script.
Posted by beanie27 at 12:51 AM
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15 comments:

  1. beanie27March 27, 2012 at 3:23 PM

    thanks anon, will check it out the original worked for me at the time of this post , but i shall double check

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  2. Sten AndreApril 12, 2012 at 1:43 AM

    nice guide! The new ds1812+ is on its way.. gonna try this!

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  3. AnonymousApril 15, 2012 at 7:35 PM

    Nice guide. Iam going nuts trying to figure out how to do this with my ds212+. Can you give me the steps or post what my changes would be? Thx

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  4. beanie27April 15, 2012 at 9:06 PM

    your steps should be pretty much identical to the ones on this page, what part are you getting stuck at?

    have you enabled ssh? on the box

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  5. RonSeptember 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM

    I tried to follow your instructions, but SickBeard won't run. Or at least I cannot access it via port 8081.

    If I try to start it manually by logging into Diskstation using putty (as root), navigating to the directory where SickBeard.py is installed; modifying the PATH to include (at the beginning) /opt/bin:/opt/sbin:

    then executing ./SickBeard.py

    I get this on the screen:

    DiskStation> ./SickBeard.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./SickBeard.py", line 44, in
    from sickbeard.webserveInit import initWebServer
    File "/volume1/Sickbeard/sickbeard/sickbeard/webserveInit.py", line 26, in
    from sickbeard.webserve import WebInterface
    File "/volume1/Sickbeard/sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 30, in
    from Cheetah.Template import Template
    ImportError: No module named Cheetah.Template

    I have Python 2.7.2 installed. I had originally installed SABnzbd using the mertymade package; that installed a version of Python which I had upgraded subsequently.



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  6. beanie27September 9, 2012 at 5:39 PM

    found a similar issue before apparently cheetah and python are installed but not linked

    Cheetah is installed in the python version you install it with.
    Open terminal and type cd and drag your Cheetah-2.4.4 (or whatever version you are on )into it:
    You get something like:

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    cd /Users/User/Downloads/Cheetah-2.4.4


    After you are in the Cheetah-2.4.4 folder

    Then you need to install it, but instead of using: sudo python setup.py install
    You use:

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    sudo /usr/bin/python setup.py install


    Type your (administrator) password and if all goes well, try starting SickBeard again.

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    1. RonSeptember 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM

      Thanks for your response. I tried adapting these instructions as I don't have (that I know of) "terminal". Rather I log into the Synology shell as root using putty and SSH. I found a single directory containing Cheetah:
      /volume1/@appstore/baseutils/utils/lib/python2.6/site-packages

      It contains two directories with Cheetah in the name:
      Cheetah
      Cheetah-2.4.2.1-py2.6.egg-info

      Changing to the Cheetah directory and executing the command above -->
      DiskStation> cd Cheetah
      DiskStation> sudo /usr/bin/python setup.py install
      -ash: sudo: not found

      Any other suggestions?

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  7. beanie27September 10, 2012 at 3:38 PM

    hmm its hard to tell whats happening , can you post the contents of your File "./SickBeard.py" , just so we can see what it thinks is its cheetah directory

    also line 26 and 30 , where you had the errors above

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    1. RonSeptember 10, 2012 at 6:36 PM

      The files seem long to post here. There were three different files mentioned in the error messages. I have Zipped them and put them on MS SkydriveLive. You should be able to access them at http://sdrv.ms/OC9n1Z If that doesn't work, I can post the contents here but that is long.

      By the way, so far as the "sudo" command is concerned, since I am logged in as root, I executed without that. Turns out there is no setup.py file on my system.

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  8. RonSeptember 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM

    Are you away? Or having problems with the Zip'd files?

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  9. RonSeptember 14, 2012 at 6:41 PM

    OK, I have made some progress. Based on those error messages, and some other stuff, I decided that python didn't know about Cheetah, and the version of Cheetah I had was old, anyway. So, by following the instructions at http://sickbeard.com/install.html with regard to installing Cheetah under Linux, I have managed to get Sickbeard running! Now comes the tweaking, and ensuring that it will start with SABnzbd, but at least I'm over this hurdle. Thanks for being available.

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  10. beanie27September 16, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    Hey Ron , yep I was away for a bit

    i'm glad you had some luck getting sickbeard to start , good job. sounds like your all set

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  11. AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 at 9:34 AM

    My experience was the same as AnonymousMarch 24, 2012 7:54 PM post with regard to changing the 2nd and 3rd lines in the script.

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  12. RonOctober 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    I've had to re-install the packages after putting larger HDD in my NAS, and discovered that the problem was different than above (and the fix simpler).
    First of all, I had to use the information from the post of March 24 with regard to the sh command (and rm) else I received an error message.

    Also, Another note: The links to python and the editing of sabstart.sh have a dependency on the SABnzbd package that was installed. With the "mertymade" package, both of those need to be changed, since "mertymade" installs python in a different spot.

    In sabstart.sh: (note use of $UTILD vs $DIR)

    $UTILD/utils/bin/python /volume2/Sickbeard/sickbeard/SickBeard.py --quiet &

    and obviously the path to SickBeard.py may be different in different installs also.

    and the symbolic link "path to original file" is also different with the mertymade package.

    /var/packages/baseutils/target/utils/bin/python

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  13. neekMay 14, 2013 at 11:01 PM

    Is this guide obsolete given that a Sickbeard package is available via the SynoCommunity and installable from the "Other Sources" tab in the package manager? I feel this guide ought to be updated with a warning right at the top to this effect. The version that's there is dated 3rd Jan 2013, I don't know when it was first made available via SynoCommunity.

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