Install SABnzbd, Sickbeard, Couchpotato on Your Synology DSM 3 NAS

Great setup you have there :)

Thanks for sharing, i am also using SABnzbd on my linux machine, works great!

worked great! thank you very much for the clear instructions^^ hoping to discovering more useful programs that would run on these incredible pieces of hardware...

@ Ovidio & ege: Yeah SABnzb is really neat. However I found that my NAS wasn't really powerful enough for it. May wanna checkout this new article on higher Synology download speeds: http://kevin.vanzonneveld.n...

Hi,

The auto start script does not seem to execute here.

When i run [CODE="text"] /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh start[/CODE] i get [CODE="text"]Start, stop or restart service? Use a parameter...[/CODE]

running it with [CODE="text"]/opt/bin/python2.5 /opt/share/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -f /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -s 0.0.0.0:9200 -d[/CODE] to start the script manually works OK.

I'm a linux noob, so perhaps you guys have some ideas.

I have the same problem as Holly. Exactly the same. Are we doing something wrong? I already searched on several websites for this, but didn't find anything that I can use.

Jacob & Holly...

Double check the script to make sure it has the $1 or $0 in the parameter placeholders.

You might need to vi the script to add these if you just copied and pasted the lines in from the web page.

Hi there.

NOOB alert
I get a "-ash: usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh: not found" error when running the last command... something went wrong, but have no clue where. My guess is that the startup script wasn't created...

Please help.

*EDIT

Was able to run it with Holly's line "opt/bin/python2.5 /opt/share/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -f /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -s 0.0.0.0:9200 -d" and get SABnzbd running. Had to run the start command again after completing setup...

@ Holly & Jacob Korf: I agree with simpic, please make sure you pasted the file 100% correctly

You were right! I just changed the parameters using NANO (same as VI), because the $1 wasn't filled yet. But now i get the following error (but it does execute):
/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh: line 12: /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini: not found

Thanks a lot! but still i can't start the SABnzbd server

@ Jacob Korf: May try creating the parent directory of that ini configuration file first:

mkdir -p /root/.sabnzbd

Not sure why it says line 12. My example has the reference on line 3 so it might still be you have an error in your file.

Als not sure why you're using either Vim or nano, when you can just copy-paste the heredoc.

For some reason the parameter placeholders get stripped when the script is saved. I used the vi editor to add them again as simpic stated.

open the file using

[CODE="text"]
vi /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh
[/CODE]

press 'a' to go into edit mode and add the $1 on the correct places in the script. Exit the edit mode by pressing esc and type 'ZZ' to safe and close.

Now it should work just fine.

Now my problem: I installed under root, so sabnzbd states that the disk space is "1.85 GB Free Space" which is obviously wrong since I have 175 GB of free space on my NAS. Is there I way to fix this? Otherwise the diskspace email is not send when needed.

Thanks Senne & Kevin!

I created the /root/.sabnzbd directory, and was able to create the .ini by executing the "/opt/bin/python2.5 /opt/share/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -f /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -s 0.0.0.0:9200 -d" script manually.
But... now when i execute the S99SABnzbd.sh start, i get the following message:
/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh: line 12: /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini: Permission denied

Seems that I don't have the proper permission?

Alvast bedankt, (thanks in advance)

Jacob Korf

The wrong free space was caused by a typo in my settings :) '/Volume1/Usenet/' but it should be '/volume1/Usenet/'

@Jacob Geen idee waar het aan kan liggen, ben zelf ook een ramp met linux :) Staan je (lees/schrijf) chmod rechten goed?

@Senne: I had this incident before too:), my problem was that my shared folder was called /korf/ on the synology, and the shared folder in Putty (SSH client) was /usbshare1/

@Senne & Kevin:
How is it possible to see the CHMOD rights?

when I execute as following the rights should be allright?:
chmod +x /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh

Or is it better to use chmod 700 /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99SABnzbd.sh

Thanks in advance

@ Jacob Korf: ls -al will do the trick (to view them) checkout the chmod manpage for differences between 700 and e.g. a+x. But I still think you haven't copied your startup script correctly cause it clearly says it tries to execute something on line 12 that it has no rights to. Like it would try to execute the ini file or something.

It worked!! I found out that I forgot to add the $1 to the elif [ "" = "$1".
Now it's working properly!
Thanks a lot!

Thanks Kevin and Simpic. Edited the script with VI and works now.

Loopt als een tiet

Hi. Cool guide, but I'm stuck. Am trying to install on a DS1511+ but I cannot locate a py26-yenc package anywhere... seems py25-yenc is the latest. Does anyone know where I can get the py26-yenc? Or should I just go with python25 for everything (removing python26) ?
Thanks

I decided to use a more friendly way to shutdown each program and prevent accidental killing other python scripts that are running

With login/pw:
[code="bash"]
#!/bin/sh
if [ "start" = "\$1" ]; then
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/share/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -f /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -s 0.0.0.0:9200 -d
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py --config=/opt/local/couchpotato/config.ini --datadir=/volume1 -d
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/sickbeard/SickBeard.py --quiet --port 9400 --config /opt/local/sickbeard/config.ini --datadir=/volume1 --daemon
elif [ "stop" = "\$1" ]; then
#shutdown sab
/opt/bin/wget -q --delete-after "http://localhost:9200/sabnzbd/api?mode=shutdown&ma_username=SABUSER&ma_password=SABPASSW&apikey=YOURAPIKEY"
sleep 6s

#shutdown sick beard
/opt/bin/wget -q --http-user=YOURSBLOGIN --http-password=YOURSBPASSW "http://localhost:9400/home/shutdown/"
sleep 6s

#shutdown coachpotato
/opt/bin/wget -q --http-user=YOURCPLOGIN --http-password=YOURCPPASSW "http://localhost:9300/config/exit/"
sleep 6s

elif [ "restart" = "\$1" ]; then
\$0 stop
\$0 start
elif [ "" = "\$1" ]; then
echo "Start, stop or restart service? Use a parameter..."
fi
[/code]

without login/pw:
[code="bash"]
#!/bin/sh
if [ "start" = "\$1" ]; then
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/share/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -f /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -s 0.0.0.0:9200 -d
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py --config=/opt/local/couchpotato/config.ini --datadir=/volume1 -d
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/sickbeard/SickBeard.py --quiet --port 9400 --config /opt/local/sickbeard/config.ini --datadir=/volume1 --daemon
elif [ "stop" = "\$1" ]; then
#shutdown sab
/opt/bin/wget -q --delete-after "http://localhost:9200/sabnzbd/api?mode=shutdown&apikey=YOURAPIKEY"
sleep 6s

#shutdown sick beard
/opt/bin/wget -q "http://localhost:9400/home/shutdown/"
sleep 6s

#shutdown coachpotato
/opt/bin/wget -q "http://localhost:9300/config/exit/"
sleep 6s

elif [ "restart" = "\$1" ]; then
\$0 stop
\$0 start
elif [ "" = "\$1" ]; then
echo "Start, stop or restart service? Use a parameter..."
fi
[/code]

Well shit, I wished I had known that these boxes weren't powerful enough to download at my full speed. Oh well, at least everything is automated now and I don't have to worry about setting a bandwidth cap. No way I'm giving up using Sabnzbd+.

Oh man, i would like to have this Linux skills like you :)

The sab package in ipkg looks pretty old. Can we easily upgrade to 0.6.2?

@Ryan
You can always choose to install sab manually, using the src.tar.gz from sourceforge. Something like this:

> shut down sab
> make a dir (I put it in /opt/share/sab/)
> wget http://sourceforge.net/proj...
> tar -xvzf SABnzbd-0.6.2-src.tar.gz

I had the 0.5.6 ipkg installed first, so I dunno if there are more things that need to be done to get it working without it. You need to change the path in the start up file, obviously.

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Why not just use Merty sabnzbd package that contains some nice tools, and upgrade build in.
Available for all synology models.
works great, and unpacking works (might have to install extra deccompressing apps), but unrar and zip works in the box (as far i remember)
Speed have never been a concent for me, used this since my first synology nas (a 407e)

http://www.mertymade.com/syno/

Hi i got these problem when i try the command git pull ?

KeNMaSTeR> cd couchpotato/
KeNMaSTeR> git pull
/opt/libexec/git-core/git-pull: line 235: tr: not found
Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref 'master'
from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.

Any solution, i'm very newby in linux :_/
And because of this error i cant see the config.ini in both sickbeard and CP.

Thx for the help ;)

How to i link both sab and sick to do the post processing? i have read i need to connect yo the synology.. please help!!! everything else works a treat.. just want it to move the files one downloaded..

@KeNMaSTeR

You are missing the tr binary from coreutils.

ipkg install coreutils

Will fix it! Also i have noted that to get the config.ini files you will need to run sickbeard and couch potato at least once. they will generate a whole bunch of files.

so just type:

/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py

&

/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/sickbeard/SickBeard.py

now i can't get par2 to work hah! any tips?

"No PAR2 program found, repairs not possible"

par2cmdline is installed and in the path.

had to add /opt/bin to the PATH in /etc/rc

not the best solution but it's working now.

for the tr errors, just update busybox. ipkg install busybox

To fix the error
/opt/libexec/git-core/git-pull: line 236: tr: not found

install textutils

ipkg install textutils

Great article. A note that one can add Zebulon's repository and install these applications through the package manager interface on the Synology as well.

Hi,

Thanks for the article its a great source of information but I wonder will this allow the synology to run sabnzbd automatically even though the computer is powered off.

Im searching for some information which allows the synology to do this.

Thanks again great article.

This was very helpful to me.

Thank you!!

Does the startup file work with the latest DSM release? I have it set as executable but nothing happens?