

Once everything is imported, go ahead and configure SickRage as you would configure SickBeard.
#SICKBEARD VS SONARR TV#
Give SickRage few minutes (or hours) to scan your TV Show library and import them. In my case some shows were ("The Office" in US vs UK) wrongly identified. SickRage should then ask you to review each show before adding. Then click "Submit" at the bottom of the page. If you want to customize each show before adding, check that option. SickRage should automatically detect and list all individual Shows folders. In the example below, all Shows in separate folders within the "Shows" folder. Then browse and select all the folders in which your existing root Shows are stored. Once in SickRage webui, click on "Add Show" and then "Add Existing Shows". Then visit SickRage web interface by going to (or whichever IP, Domain, or port you use in your case). If not use the following command to start SickRage: Move Shows from SickBeard to SickRageĪfter SickRage installation it should already be running.
#SICKBEARD VS SONARR INSTALL#
But by following our method to install SickRage, you can switch between SickBeard and SickRage any time. There are ways to run both SickBeard and SickRage simultaneously but that is out of the scope for this post. Providerįor more plans that may fit your needs please read our Usenet plan selection guide. With our method, SickRage is installed in a folder different than SickBeard and its init scripts are also stored with unique filename. SickRage by default uses the same installation parameters (folders, filenames, etc.) as SickBeard. Then stop existing SickBeard from autostarting using the following command:įollow our SickRage installation guide for Ubuntu to setup from SickRage Git. First stop SickBeard:Įnsure that SickBeard is stopped by visiting the web interface (it should not open). Otherwise, you might have to make some minor changes to correct paths where ever needed. sickbeard then this method should work flawlessly. If your installed SickBeard using our guide and it is installed in your home folder under. This ensures that all metadata are present for SickRage to recognize and import shows.
#SICKBEARD VS SONARR UPDATE#
Then run a full update on all shows using the mass update function of Sickbeard. īefore proceeding, one recommendation to avoid compatibility issues and smooth transfer/importing of shows is to enable "Show Info" under XBMC 12+ in the Meta data section. If you encounter any issues you can always fall back to your working SickBeard installation. The method I am describing will allow you to ensure that SickRage is working as it should before removing SickBeard. While scanning can take some time depending on the size of your library it is not a tedious job in any way. After installation just allow SickRage to rescan your library and you should be good. That said, replacing SickBeard with SickBeard TVRage is quite simple. So you can just move everything from SickBeard to SickRage with a click. SickBeard's database and settings (config.ini) are NOT compatible with SickRage. Let me break your excitement here for a minute.
