Sick Beard is currently an alpha release. There may be severe bugs in it and at any given time it may not work at all.
Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, Bin-Req, NZBs'R'Us, EZTV.it, and any Newznab installation and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com.
Features include:
- automatically retrieves new episode torrent or nzb files
- can scan your existing library and then download any old seasons or episodes you're missing
- can watch for better versions and upgrade your existing episodes (to from TV DVD/BluRay for example)
- XBMC library updates, poster/fanart downloads, and NFO/TBN generation
- configurable episode renaming
- sends NZBs directly to SABnzbd, prioritizes and categorizes them properly
- available for any platform, uses simple HTTP interface
- can notify XBMC, Growl, or Twitter when new episodes are downloaded
- specials and double episode support
XEM EDITION FEATURES ADDED:
- Automatic XEM Scene Numbering/Naming for seasons/episodes (ported from Bricky's fork).
- Failed handling now attempts to snatch a different release and excludes failed releases from future snatch attempts.
- Episode Status Manager now allows for mass failing seasons/episodes to force retrying to download new releases.
- DVD Order numbering for returning the results in DVD order instead of Air-By-Date order.
- Improved Failed handling code for both NZB and Torrent downloads.
- DupeKey/DupeScore for NZBGet 12+
Sick Beard makes use of the following projects:
- cherrypy
- Cheetah
- simplejson
- tvdb_api
- ConfigObj
- SABnzbd+
- jQuery
- Python GNTP
- SocksiPy
- python-dateutil
- jsonrpclib
- Subliminal
To run Sick Beard from source you will need Python 2.6+ and Cheetah 2.1.0+. The binary releases are standalone.
If you find a bug please report it or it'll never get fixed. Verify that it hasn't already been submitted and then log a new bug. Be sure to provide as much information as possible.