What is Sick Beard?
Sick Beard is an open source application that functions as a personal video recorder (PVR) for media centers and newsgroup users. It is used specifically for automatically downloading TV shows through torrent trackers and usenet indexers. The main features of Sick Beard include:
- Monitoring torrent tracker sites and usenet indexers for new TV show releases and automatically downloading desired shows
- Renaming TV show episode files and organizing them into appropriate folders to simplify media center integration
- Managing when TV shows air and identifying when new episodes should be downloaded
- Integration with Sabnzbd and other download tools for automated episode retrieval
- KODI/XBMC metadata integration for providing information to media center software
- IP camera monitoring to detect failed downloads
- Notifications via email, IRC, Twitter and Growl when new episodes are available or downloads fail
Overall, Sick Beard aims to fully automate seeding, sorting, and managing of TV shows to function as an advanced personal video recorder application. It interfaces with major torrent trackers and usenet indexers to always find the optimal download for a given TV program.