Instead it remote controls third party download apps. After downloading and installing CouchPotato , run the application. It will fire up your browser the program is managed and controlled from entirely within a browser interface and start you off on the Welcome page for the initial setup. Scroll down to general. If you like you can give the app a Username and Password and set a port number for it.
It's entirely optional, used if you want to be able to access your CouchPotato installation from outside your home network. If you want to do that, you'll have to set up port forwarding for it.
If you don't care about that, you can just leave that section as is and continue scrolling down. One has the exact movie title and the other has the quality. Make sure the title is the right one and, optionally, click Best to pick a different quality. There are several levels of quality you can specify from HD to cam. Finally, click on Add. The movie will be added to your Wanted list.
If the movie is available right now, it will appear in your library. Click on Movies on the left pane and on Manage at the top of the window to see what movies are in your library.
If the movie is not available for download, it will appear in your wanted list. You can see the content of your wanted list by clicking Movies on the left pane then Wanted at the top. Couchpotato will periodically search the torrent sites and Usenet NZB indexes for your file.
It will continue working in the background even after you close your browser. Another cool option is the renamer, which will take the downloaded files and rename them.
You configure it via the Couchpotato settings by clicking the gear icon near the bottom left of the screen and choosing Settings. You then specify the renaming parameters by clicking Renamer at the left, switching it on at the far right and filling the appropriate information.
For instance, you could fine-tune the searcher, specifying what quality levels the app will search for and if it should wait for higher-quality files to become available. Overall, there are many options you can configure to enhance your Couchpotato experience. In fact, there are far too many to talk about them all here! Try playing around with them and experiment to get the app working the way you want it.
Remember how we suggested you install the Couchpotato browser extension? If available, it will send it using your favorite download software. Just add it and it will be downloaded once it is available. You don't have to keep track yourself, it's all fully automated!
I would like to pull the highest quality of a movie available. Any ideas on how to eliminate the duplication I am getting? This is a known issue and is not a SABnzbd issue. Reasons for multiple downloads are: 1: on snatching the release and sending to SABnzbd, cps does not receive confirmation from SABnzbd in time a timeout error occurs so it assumes no download happened and moves on to the next best release.
First of all, CouchPotato asks you to choose a username and password. However, this is not mandatory. And finally, select that you give CouchPotato permission to launch the browser when you start. If you scroll down CouchPotato will ask you what download app newsreader you are using.
In this example we will select SABnzbd , but it could be any other newsreader. Follow these steps:. The next step is indicating which torrent sites and NZB sites CouchPotato should use to search your desired movie. There are usually several paid and free NZB sites, but generally not all sites are working as intended.
Binsearch is a decent free NZB search engine, but it is recommend to activate as many NZB sites as possible here to increase your chances of finding a suitable NZB file. Files on Usenet often have the weirdest, meaningless names. Often they are comprised of random strings of numbers and letters. It is recommended to use this feature.
Subsequently there are several options you can tweak:. It is also possible to download a browser extension for CouchPotato, although this is optional. CouchPotato will automatically initiate the download process for these movies when possible. If the movie is not available at that time, CouchPotato will keep trying at later moments. The initial installation has now been finalized.
Even though you have come a long way with configuring CouchPotato already, there are still some minor steps to be taken. Here you can modify a couple of filters, which will help CouchPotato with finding the right movies.
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