What can CouchPotato do for your XBMC library?

If selected CouchPotato can automatically download Metadata (such as movie information, posters, fanarts, etc.) for your XBMC library. This completely automates you your media center. If you enable this in CouchPotato, then I suggest that you disable the rename/move option in SABnzbd as there may be a conflict.

How to configure CouchPotato to automatically download.nzb files?

Just configure CouchPotato (choose “Black Hole” as the downloading method) to save the .torrent to their respective watched folders. If you have created accounts with any of NZB or Torrent indexes, you may enter the details below. You can configure CouchPotato to automatically search and download .nzb and .torrent files from these services.

How to configure CouchPotato to automatically download movies?

You can also configure CouchPotato to automatically add movies that meet your criteria. Be careful though, as CouchPotato may start downloading tons of movies if your criteria is too loose. Under Renamer, you have the option to download subtitles automatically if you choose too. For English, enter en. You can also configure Trailer downloads.

How to configure CouchPotato with Usenet and torrents?

Open up the Sabnzbd configuration at http://ip.address:8080/sabzbd/config Click Categories and then modify your movies category to have the Folder/path point to a temporary location which CouchPotato will monitor for new movie downloads.

What do I need to set up CouchPotato?

Setting up couchpotato is very straightforward. You need to have a usenet provider account like usenetserver or newsdemon. You also need a usenet binary downloader like sabnzbd or nzbget. Make sure you have your API key from sabnzbd or login details for nzbget.

How to configure CouchPotato for downloading NZBS?

If you have SABnzbd newgrabber installed and would like to use it for downloading NZBs, then enter the Host, API Key, and the Category. If SABnzbd is running on the same system CouchPotato then the host is localhost.

How to set up CouchPotato as a PVR?

Configure CouchPotato as a pvr for automatically downloading your movies. This guide assumes you have already installed CouchPotato on your platform of choice like Windows, Debian, Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi. Setting up couchpotato is very straightforward. You need to have a usenet provider account like usenetserver or newsdemon.