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**SickGear**, a usenet and bittorrent PVR

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*Please note you should know how to use git and setup basic requirements in order to run this software.*

SickGear provides management of TV shows and/or Anime, it can detect new episodes, link to downloader apps, and more. SickGear is a proud descendant of Sick Beard and is humbled to have been endorsed by one of its former lead developers.

Why SickGear?

• SickGear maintains perfect uptime with the longest track record of being stable, reliable and trusted to work
• SickGear delivers quality from active development with a wealth of options on a dark or light themed interface
• Migrating to a hassle free and feature rich set up is super simple

Features include

• Stable, quality assured testing and development cycle
• Innovations that inspire imitators
• Compatible with any platform via a familiar web interface
• Most comprehensive selection of usenet and torrent sources
• Episode management
  • View missed and upcoming shows at a glance with "day by day" and other layouts
  • Group shows into personalised sections in a full show list view
  • Automatic and manual search for availability of wanted episodes
  • Set what episodes you want and how to receive them
  • Uses well known established index sites to gather show information
  • Searches for known alternatively named shows with a fallback to user edited names
  • Searches for known alternatively numbered episodes with a fallback to user edited numbers
  • Searches for known alternatively numbered seasons with a fallback to user edited numbers
  • Forward search results to a downloader (e.g. NZBGet, SABNZBd, uTorrent, and others)
  • Save search results to a "blackhole" folder that can be periodically scanned for taking action
  • Post-process downloaded episodes into customisable layouts, with or without extra metadata
  • Advanced Failed Download Handling (FDH)
  • Overview of seasons, episodes, rating, version, airdate, episode status (their meaning)
• Processing nzb/torrents with your downloader application at your chosen qualities
• Subtitle management
• Notification
  • System notifiers (i.e. Kodi, Emby, Plex, XBMC)
  • Device notifiers (i.e. Growl, Prowl, Notify My Android)
  • Social (i.e. Twitter, E-mail)
• Server friendly with minimal number of calls (e.g. one request per chosen snatch, not per result)
• Can recommend trendy and/or personally tailored shows from Trakt, IMDb, AniDB
• Automated alternative show names and episode numbering from XEM

Some of our innovative features;

• Automated search after adding a show
• Desktop notifications
• Enhanced Anime features when adding shows
• Visual percentage progress of managed episodes
• Separate Plex server and Plex client settings
• Intelligent library updates that target Plex servers that list the show of an episode
• Configurable episode status for removed media files
• Configurable default home page
• Source providers
• User Interface

Screenies

Show List: Simple Theme: Dark, Light	Show List: Banner Theme: Dark, Light	Show List: Poster Theme: Dark, Dark 2	Episode View: Day by Day Theme: Dark, Light	Episode View: List Theme: Dark, Dark 2, Light	Display Show Theme: Dark, Light	Add from Trakt Theme: Dark	Edit Show Theme: Dark

Available versions

Master (changes)	(most stable)
Development (changes)	(mostly stable)
[ ++ Install Guides ++ ][ Frequently Answered ][ Discover Wiki ]

Howto

Report issues

The following guidelines prevent reported issues getting messy and help us quickly get to the nub of an issue. Please be aware that we require all requested information and that missing details will likely result in the reported issue being closed.

Contribute code

Please read this guide. Directions include coding with git and submitting pull requests. If your pull request is a new feature, please try explaining its function to a limit of 200 characters. Better, talk to our devs in IRC (details below).

Contributors

To core

MidgetSpy, zoggy, 1337, Tolstyak, Mr_Orange, Bricky, JackDandy, Prinz23, Supremicus, adam111316, and zanaga

In other areas, testers and QA

Warm thanks to tehspede, CtrlAltDefeat, Mike, vergessen (betrayed), and Rawh for their keen eye, all around help, and making sure all manner of things work as expected

Provider code

Thanks also, to unsung heroes that added source providers; Idan Gutman, Daniel Heimans, jkaberg, and Seedboy

Finally, a massive thanks to all those that remain in the shadows, the quiet ones who welcome folk to special places, we salute you for your hospitality and for tirelessly keeping up operations.

Community

• IRC: irc.freenode.net channel #SickGear
  Support is available, but you should understand the basics of your Linux or Windows OS. If you don't understand basics like locating a db file, not running as root, or things like setting file permissions, then SickGear might not be for you.

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Enjoy SickGear - stability, reliability, assured.