SickBeard

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Reason: Packages have been dropped from AUR, looking at https://github.com/coach0742/Sick-Beard the development has been abandoned since 2014. Is there an active fork ? (Discuss in Talk:SickBeard)

Sick Beard^{[dead link 2021-11-19 ⓘ]} is a Personal Video Recorder for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs'R'Us, Newzbin, Womble's Index, NZB.su, TVTorrents and EZRSS and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com.

Installation

Install the sickbeard^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]} package.

Start/enable sickbeard.service.

Troubleshooting

Daemon will not start

Sickbeard's systemd script attaches the app to /run/sickbeard.pid. If starting sickbeard fails and journalctl states:

Unable to write PID file: No such file or directory [2]

you can:

reboot
run: systemd-tmpfiles --create

This will create the directory, based on /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sickbeard.conf which the sickbeard package installs.

You can read more about this problem in this forum thread.