Organize Your Shows with Sickbeard

Sickbeard is a server-based application that runs on your file server, and it can manage and sort all of your television shows. If you have a collection of TV episodes you've recorded with MythTV, ripped from DVD, pulled from TiVo or however you might have procured them, organizing them in a way that programs like Boxee or XBMC understand can be daunting. Sickbeard is a program that can sort, organize and rename episodes automatically. It lets you know if you are missing episodes, and it can download metadata and cover art. It even can notify you with a pop-up on your XBMC home-theater device when a new episode is added to your library.

Again, Sickbeard was designed with nefarious intentions in mind, but even if you don't want to pirate television shows from Usenet, it's a great way to keep your XBMC database organized. Check it out at www.sickbeard.com.

Installation:- 

1. Install python (2.5, 2.6, or 2.7)

   To check if it is installed just type "python -V" in a terminal window
   In the unlikely event it's not already installed you can simply install it with your OSes package manager.
   

2. Install cheetah

   Use your package manager: sudo apt-get install python-cheetah
   Or install from source:
   
   • wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/C/Cheetah/Cheetah-2.4.4.tar.gz
   • tar -zxvf Cheetah-2.4.4.tar.gz
   • cd Cheetah-2.4.4
   • sudo python setup.py install

3. Retrieve the Sick Beard source

   
   If you have git installed (use "git --version" to check):
   • git clone git://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git my-sickbeard-install
   If not:
   • wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/tarball/master
   • tar -xzvf midgetspy-Sick-Beard-xxxxxx.tar.gz (the xxxxxx part will be different for every download)
   • mv midgetspy-Sick-Beard-xxxxxx my-sickbeard-install

4. Start Sick Beard

   • cd my-sickbeard-install
   • python SickBeard.py

 Thanks,
Vishal Vyas