Setup of a media center with automated episode downloads in the background.
These are the applications this setup configures and automates for you:
- OSMC the operating system for the mediacenter, interacting with your own TV remote.
- Transmission to download torrents
- Flex to automate jobs and such as the episode search, download, add subtitles or keep the house clean
- Subliminal to integrate subtitles in your language
- Cronjobs, several of them to keep everything working in background
Watch TV as soon shows are released without doing anything.
- A running OSMC (Download and install here, easy as hell to install).
- Hardware: A Raspberry Pi (1 or 2), Vero or Apple TV
- An account in ShowRSS or similar feed service that configures your own feed.
This setup has been tested in the latest OSMC at the moment of writing: release 2015.08-1 (there is a new version now, should work)
After the installation you get a mediacenter operated from your TV remote. All your selected TV Shows are puctually downloaded in their correct folder with its subtitles, and the filesystem is kept clean and organized, no maintenance to do. Some of the features are:
- Operation from the remote, no mouse nor keyboard needed.
- The setup of your preferred TV Shows taken from ShowRSS or any other feed of your interest.
- All downloads automated, moved to the right folder structure when completed. Using real episode names and season information (taken from TheTVDB) is optional by uncommenting lines in the config.
- Automatic download of subtitles and retry of failed ones every hour.
- Downloads folder and transmission tasks always clean.
- Updated Kodi library with TV Shows covers and art cover.
- [optional] Delete shows that have been already seen to save storage
The following services can be used remotely:
| Service | Access | User / Password |
|---|---|---|
| Transmission web client | http://$OSMC_HOST:9091 | transmission / transmission |
| Kodi Web (Remote) | http://$OSMC_HOST/ | None |
| Open SSH | ssh osmc@$OSMC_HOST | osmc/osmc (sudo is available) |
Samba is not installed, all my downloads go to an external storage (USB) that I can carry everywhere. Think that the Raspberry is not a regular PC and you can hit memory limits easily, the less services you put the better. Occasional transfers can be easily done using scp myfile osmc@$OSMC_HOST.
In order to start the installation just SSH to your fresh OSMC installation in the raspeberry:
ssh osmc@YOUR_OSMC_IP
Then the installation starts by copy-pasting this line:
bash <(curl -H 'Pragma: no-cache' -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alombarte/raspberry-osmc-automated/master/install.sh') /home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated 2>&1 | tee /home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated/logs/installation.log
The installation script will download all necessary files and will configure the raspberry for you. During the installation process you will be asked for your RSS feed URL, your IP and the mountpoint of your external storage (if any).
Your mediacenter is ready!
If you don't have a RSS you can sign up in a free service like ShowRSS. Once you have done it add some TV Shows to your feed and then get the link by clicking "Generate" in the feeds section
If you want to tweak on the existing installation, this might help you a little bit. To begin with, all the configuration variables you chose during installation are saved in /home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated/bash/settings.cfg. Don't change them because it doesn't have any effect, they are used only during the installation and are there for informative purposes afterwards.
The following paths assume you installed the application under /home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated
The Real magic happens by configuring this task. The default task downloads all episodes to /home/osmc/TV Shows, it uses a structure like TV Shows/Show name/Season 1/Episode Name
For any changes edit the file:
/home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated/flexget/config.yml
Then execute flexget to see if it's working (the flexget daemon might need to be restarted):
/usr/local/bin/flexget exec
All jobs executed by flexget related with TV Shows try to download the subtitle in the language you chose during installation. There are 2 different attempts 2 download subtitles:
- Just after an episode is downloaded: Flexget will use the
subliminaltool to get the associate subtitle. This operation might fail if you are downloading a just aired episode and the subtitles have not been written yet. - In order to complete any missing subtitles, every hour a cron job tries to download missing ones.
If post-install you ever need to change the subtitle language you need to edit 2 files:
/home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated/flexget/config.ymland change the 2 letter code (e.ges) in the following line:exec: subliminal download -l es ....- In the crontab with the command
crontab -eand look for the line invokingsubliminal
If you have an account in addic7ed you can pass your credentials in the aforementioned places adding the flag --addic7ed YOURUSER YOURPASSWORD. E.g:
/usr/local/bin/subliminal --addic7ed YOURUSER YOURPASSWORD download -l es -s "/home/osmc/TV Shows/"
If you want to change the frequency of the feed checking, add, or remove jobs just execute:
crontab -e
In the crontab there is a commented job that deletes TV shows that are marked as seen by Kodi after 1 month. If you want to enable this feature just uncomment the line in the crontab and save.
If you want to stop typing the password every time you SSH to the Raspberry Pi do the following in your Mac/Linux:
# Put here your raspberry IP, e.g:
OSMC_HOST=192.168.1.10
# Copy SSH key to OSMC server
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh osmc@$OSMC_HOST 'mkdir -p ~/.ssh; umask 077; cat >>~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
If you see this message on every login:
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)`
This is a possible fix:
sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
# Choose en_US.UTF-8
The system keeps track of your series feed and downloads periodically all files found but you might need from time to time to parse and extract from another one (e.g: first day you download a new serie). There is a bash script that adds in your transmission all magnets found:
bash /home/osmc/.raspberry-osmc-automated/bash/download_magnets_in_rss.sh http://showrss.info/show/117.rss
The previous call would add to Transmission all magnets available for the serie.
The spotify plugin doesn't come preinstalled. If you have a Premium account you will be able to install it using bash/spotify.sh.
The Youtube plugin can be installed manually from the Add-on repository browser.