Sick Beard on IX4-300d

Sick Beard is a personal video recorder (PVR) designed primarily for newsgroup users, with some limited support for torrents. Its main function is to monitor your favorite TV shows and automatically download new episodes as soon as they become available. Once downloaded, Sick Beard takes care of organizing, sorting, and renaming the files, making it easier to maintain a clean and accessible media library without manual effort.

The application supports a wide range of NZB indexers such as NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs’R’Us, Newzbin, Womble’s Index, and NZB.su, as well as torrent sites like TVTorrents and EZRSS. To enhance the user experience, Sick Beard pulls show metadata and episode information from trusted sources like theTVDB.com and TVRage.com, ensuring your media collection is accurately labeled and up to date.

Requirements

Before you begin, make sure you have:

• SSH Access to your NAS
  If SSH isn’t enabled yet, follow this comprehensive SSH Access Guide to set it up properly.

• Custom Startup Script
  To ensure Sick Beard launches automatically when your NAS boots, you need a custom startup script. Follow this detailed Startup Script Modification Guide if you haven’t created or modified one yet.

 

Installation

1. Connect to your NAS via SSH
   Open your SSH client (like PuTTY or Terminal), and log in to your NAS using its IP address and your credentials.

2. Navigate to the Apps Folder
   Change directory to the location where you will install Sick Beard. By default, this guide uses the “Downloads” share, but you can replace it with any other share name you prefer:

   cd /mnt/pools/A/A0/Downloads/.Apps


   If the .Apps folder does not exist yet, create it by running:

   cd /mnt/pools/A/A0/Downloads/
mkdir .Apps
cd .Apps


3. Download Sick Beard from GitHub
   Clone the Sick Beard repository directly into the .Apps folder with:

   /opt/bin/git clone https://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git


   This will download all necessary files to your NAS. The process may take a few moments depending on your internet connection speed.

1. Start the Sick Beard Server
   Once the download is complete, launch the Sick Beard server as a background process (daemon) by executing:

   /opt/bin/python2.6 /mnt/pools/A/A0/Downloads/.Apps/Sick-Beard/SickBeard.py --daemon


   This starts the service and detaches it from the terminal so it runs continuously in the background.

2. Access the Sick Beard Web Interface
   Open your preferred web browser on any device connected to your network and navigate to:

   http://[NAS_IP]:8081


   Replace [NAS_IP] with the actual IP address of your NAS. You should now see the Sick Beard web interface ready for configuration.