How to use Sick Beard

Install

1) Get the source

Since there is no installer simply extract the files to the folder where you want Sick Beard to be or if you're using svn just check out the trunk.

2) Run Sick Beard

Run sickbeard-console.exe to help with debugging. You can just double-click on it or run it from a command prompt: Start -> Run, cmd, cd c:\sickbeard\folder\, sickbeard-console.exe. Note that sickbeard.exe is the same thing with no console but I don't recommend that for debugging reasons.

For users running from source simply run "python Sickbeard.py"

3) Bookmark Sick Beard

The first time you start Sick Beard it will open its home page in your browser. Bookmark this page so you can return to it later. Note: closing your browser window does not close Sick Beard!! Just because you're not looking at it doesn't mean it's not running.

Setup

1) Configure Sick Beard

Enter your settings in the configuration page. Once you have filled out your settings, restart your Sick Beard.

2) Add your shows

To add a show start by specifying the show's directory. If you have XBMC-compatible tvshow.nfo files in your show folders the program will automatically load the info - if not, you'll need to specify the show name and choose it from a list. When you add the show it will download all the info from theTVDB.com and scan the folder for existing episodes - this make take several minutes.

You can also mass-add shows by specifying a root folder and having Sick Beard add every show within that folder using the "Add Shows From Root Dir".

3) Set up your SABnzbd post processing

If an episode doesn't get processed for whatever reason you can manually start the post processing by going to the "Process Episode" page and entering the folder containing the episode (it must contain ONLY ONE episode).