PSA: Sickbeard is out, Sonarr is in.

Let's do some quick math here, to illustrate what I mean.

Option 1:
Astraweb 10mbit account for 1 year = $80 (R970)
Total = R970 per year (R80 per month)

Option 2:
UsenetBucket 10mbit account for 1 year = €31,85 (R435)
Astraweb 25GB block account (no expiry) = $10 (R121)
Total = R556 per year (R46 per month)

Not only is it almost half the price, you now have redundancy. 2 servers.
Also, UsenetBucket is dutch based. In holland there is no such thing as DMCA - they have something called NTD, but isn't as effective.

Great advice here. Another nice server also in Holland is Sunnyset, even cheaper than Usenetbucket if I recall correctly.
 
Woke up and everything that should have downloaded did so it's all good. Had to do some minor cleanup - a few new folders were created by Sonarr where the series name differed from the existing folder name and some season folders were created - but I'll fix those as they pop up.
 
@ Keeper - It is better then AstraWeb ?

xsusenet.com have a free 1meg account
only around 10 days retention but that is plenty for basic series.
Only issue with it is they need to be renewed monthly (you get an email).
I have 2 of those set up (you can set one account up per email address) as well as usenetbucket.
Also, xsusenet says you don't get ssl on the free account but you can use the ssl settings and they work.
 
Oh another thing, if you are moving from sickbeard move your scripts out of your scripts folder.

SAB was still trying to run them even when I changed from sabtosickbeard to default.
 
Playing with Sonarr and tbh besides the ui, there's nothing that really stands out. Is there something I'm missing?
 
xsusenet.com have a free 1meg account
only around 10 days retention but that is plenty for basic series.
Only issue with it is they need to be renewed monthly (you get an email).
I have 2 of those set up (you can set one account up per email address) as well as usenetbucket.
Also, xsusenet says you don't get ssl on the free account but you can use the ssl settings and they work.

gmail dot trick..
 
Just installed - seemed pretty straight forward. Whats with the import though - do I have to manually add each series? :(

There's an option to add series from disk at the top of the page.. then you just specifiy the folder where all of your series sits. It will then give you the list of all your series, and you just have to confirm if the automated system got it right.
 
I'm having a problem trying to add SABnzb as my download provider.. it gives me an error about the path being incompatible or something like that.. which is strange, coz i don't specify a path at any point in the sonarr setup.
 
Sonarr looks decent, will really know how it is when the series start coming out. Have to admit though, it's method of adding series in terrible. It breaks the directory's and adds in it's own stuff. SB is much better at doing this from what I can see. Overall though,it is much better.
 
I'm having a problem trying to add SABnzb as my download provider.. it gives me an error about the path being incompatible or something like that.. which is strange, coz i don't specify a path at any point in the sonarr setup.

Host is localhost and you have the right port in there?
 
Thought so - half an hour of clicking and its now importing everything. Will have to see if it auto downloads any series over night.

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Guess what I was dreaming about last night...
 
I'm having a problem trying to add SABnzb as my download provider.. it gives me an error about the path being incompatible or something like that.. which is strange, coz i don't specify a path at any point in the sonarr setup.




Had the same problem. Had to go into the config file to change the folder from using "/" as a opposed to using "\".



Edit: This is the SABnzb config file.
 
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