Sick Beard is a (terribly, terribly named) application that downloads TV episodes from newsgroups—as opposed to BitTorrent—moves and renames them, and even fetches artwork and episode information (.NFO files) for use with XBMC. If, for any reason, you want to avoid BitTorrent and go with newsgroups instead, go aheard and install SABnzb+ for downloading purposes, [...]
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Even though my Ubuntu Lucid Lynx media server runs pretty solidly, I like to monitor it periodically using SSH and command line tools. Some of my favorites are w, htop, ps, bwm-ng, and nmap. After rebuilding my server, I decided to install some lightweight system monitoring tools that exposed themselves via a web interface, so [...]
Note: These instructions are an update of a previous post. I updated my instructions to include the download of the transmissionrpc plugin, and to include the cron job definition I use. These instructions apply to FlexGet 1.0r1377.
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading [...]
Using the configuration file shown in my Transmission-Daemon setup post, Transmission will download files into the “downloading” folder until the download hits 100%. At that point, the downloaded files will be moved to the “seeding” folder. The torrent will remain active, seeding to other users, until it hits the seeding ratio, or until you pause [...]
Note: This article is an update to the Transmission daemon install instructions which reflects what I did when I rebuilt my media server. I now show the location of the configuration file in the “normal” place, /etc/transmission-daemon/, which did not work for me originally, but worked for me after a fresh install. I also improved [...]
I use the WD TV LIVE as a HTPC front-end. Because of latency problems with my wireless network, I attached a USB stick to the WD TV LIVE to use for video storage. The player allows me to expose that USB stick to the network via “Windows” (Samba) file sharing. I would push video to [...]
I want my Ubuntu media server to be able to push content to my WD TV Live, which I use to view content on my TV. My WD TV Live is on my wireless network, but I found that the network is not fast or reliable enough to stream 1080p content, or even 720p content [...]
For simplicity, I tend to stream from my media server to my TVs and computers using Samba shares. Samba shares implement the standard CIFS file-sharing protocol, are accessible from every major operating system, and work just fine with most media front-ends (for example: XBMC, Boxee, Windows Media Center, and my WD TV LIVE set-top box).
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My media server runs headless, so I need a way to log into it from other machines for remote administration. Telnet is installed by default on Ubuntu Server, but it does not offer a secure, encrypted channel to the server, even when transferring the password. SSH, on the other hand, offers all the features of [...]
