Can't get Sickbeard or Couchpotato to work :(

R.O.S.S.I · 20 Aug 2015 at 15:25

Followed so many different guides on setting Sickbeard and Couchpotato up with a torrent client on my N54L (running UBUNTU) and I just can't get it to work.

Does anyone know of any idiot proof, step-by-step guides for getting everything working? From setting up a torrent client, to then setting up Sickbeard and CouchPotato.

Ive managed to install Sickbeard and Couchpotato and I've tried a couple of torrent clients but cant seem to get them to work with each other and its cabbaging my brain.

Any help greatly appreciated!

R.O.S.S.I · 20 Aug 2015 at 15:30

My hope is to use it with torrents for now which I know they all support, I don't have any newsgroup access unfortunately.

I'm using Sickbeard too. I installed it using the AtoMiC installer (http://www.htpcbeginner.com/atomic-toolkit/) along with couchpotato and qBittorrent first then when I couldnt get that to work I tried Transmission.

Think I might have to remove everything and start again before I give it another go. Its been doing my head in!

R.O.S.S.I · 20 Aug 2015 at 15:43

I think I followed that guide initially. I think ive become stuck in getting them to talk to my torrent software or that ive not got the torrent software set up correctly!

Whats the easiest way of removing applications on Linux so that I can get everything clean again before I mess things up by reinstalling stuff haha!

R.O.S.S.I · 20 Aug 2015 at 17:01

I can FTP into the server actually so is it a case of just removing directories or is there more to it? I'm ok with using putty if i know what command lines to run!

R.O.S.S.I · 20 Aug 2015 at 20:29

Haha yeh randal. Do i just delete the .sickbeard and .couchpotato folders and then start again?

R.O.S.S.I · 21 Aug 2015 at 11:14

No not using API keys to the best of my knowledge. There are specific sections to configure in each app to get them to talk to one another which i thought id done correctly but alas I haven't.

I tried using qBittorrent but was getting no joy so switched to Transmission but I can't access the GUI which I think you need to change some settings as I can only access Transmission via the WebUI via my PC.

I did find a guide which talked through how to configure everything to work with each other but when I got to the Transmission section the interface looked different and I think it was down to me only having the WebUI available.