If you would like to contribute, please let me know

Changelog

2010-06-21 – Initial publication, includes DVD Cover banners templates
2010-06-21 – Added Wide banner templates
2010-06-21 – Added link to get ClearART Logos

All Downloads

Series banners

To be completed

Season banners

DVD Cover style

Season Banners must 400 x 578 pixels, and in a jpg format.  To save the PSD as a jpg go to file/Save for Web.

Preview:

Download:

Wide style

Season banners must be 758 x 140 pixels.

Preview:

Download:

Image resources

Eventually ClearART Logos will be available from TheTVDB to use in the images, but until then, your best bet is here http://www.lockstockmods.net/clearart/

I recently took the plunge and built my first unRAID server, it’s been running for a month now and i’ve been really happy with it. This tutorial will attempt to help you set up SABnzbd+ and Sickbeard on your unRAID server and get you one step closer to using unRAID to consolidate the machines you need running.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the great guys on the unRAID community forum, particularly Romir who created the AIO and Dependencies package.

I have included for download the All In One package as well, but for the purpose of this guide i am using the dependencies package as it should allow you to upgrade your SABnzbd installation.

This guide assumes you have a cache drive, however, both AIO or dependencies setup should work without a cache drive, just change the paths.

Using a cache drive or manually mounted disk is a good idea because sickbeard does a lot of debugging at the moment and will hit the flash a lot if stored on there, also you don’t want downloads downloading onto the flash.

Alternatively instead of a cache drive or manually mounting another drive you could put everything onto the array, somthing like replacing /mnt/cache/.custom with /mnt/disk1/custom would probably work or you could create a user share.

If you can’t get the files from their official sources you can get them here:
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Change log

2010-06-03 – Published initial draft
2010-06-03 – Added loop in go script to allow /mnt/cache to mount
2010-06-03 – Added instructions for updating sickbeard
2010-06-03 – Added images/links to sickbeard, SABnzbd and unRAID
2010-06-03 – Added screenshots
2010-06-07 – Added automatic updater written by beckstown with modifications by mlrtime3 and me (Kode)
2010-06-07 – Changed paths to use wildcards for sickbeard
2010-06-07 – Added source for sickbeard-updater.sh for those who don’t want to download it just want to paste it into nano

Set up

Log into your unRAID server and type the following commands

cd /mnt/cache
mkdir .custom
cd .custom
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sabnzbdplus/files/sabnzbdplus/sabnzbd-0.5.2/SABnzbd-0.5.2-src.tar.gz/download
wget http://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/tarball/master
ls

Your filenames might be different, just replace the filenames below with the filesnames you have

tar zxf SABnzbd-0.5.2-src.tar.gz
tar zxf midgetspy-Sick-Beard*.tar.gz
rm SABnzbd-0.5.2-src.tar.gz
rm midgetspy-Sick-Beard*.tar.gz
mv midgetspy-Sick-Beard-* sickbeard
mv SABnzbd-0.5.2 sabnzbd
cd /boot/custom
wget http://www.bibliognome.com/unraid/SABnzbdDependencies-1.3-i486-unRAID.tgz

edit your go script and add the following, replacing 192.168.1.6 with whatever ip it runs on

# determine if cache drive online, retry upto 7 times
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
do
    if [ ! -d /mnt/cache ]
    then
      sleep 10
    fi
done

# If Cache drive is online, start SABNzbd
if [ -d /mnt/cache ]; then
  # Start SABnzbd and sickbeard
  installpkg /boot/custom/SABnzbdDependencies-1.3-i486-unRAID.tgz
  python /mnt/cache/.custom/sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py -d -s 192.168.1.6:88
  nohup python /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/SickBeard.py &
fi

The for loop will pause installing SABnzbd and sickbeard for up to 70 seconds if the cache drive isn’t mounted yet, then, as suggested by Joe L. there is an if statement so if it goes over 70 seconds it wont try to install SABnzbd and sickbeard if the cache drive still isn’t mounted.

SABnzbd+ 0.5.2

You should be able to hit SABnzbd on http://tower:88/wizard if that doesnt work try typing python /mnt/cache/.custom/sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py -d -s 192.168.1.6:88 at the commandline

Complete the SABnzbd setup wizard

Go to Config/Folders

Change Completed Download Folder: to /mnt/cache this will mean that when the mover script runs it will move the completed download off the cache drive and into the appropriate locaton. This wont affect TV downloads though because we will set up sickbeard to post process them.
change Post-Processing Scripts Folder: to /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/autoProcessTV then click save changes.

Go to config/categories

Select sabToSickBeard.py from the script dropdown in the TV row

Sickbeard

Sickbeard should be accessable from http://tower:8081
In the unRAID terminal type

mv /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg.sample /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg

If you don’t chang the port, username (blank) or password (blank) in config/General you don’t need to edit this file.
Go to Config/General

In the defaults section select your preffered quality and tick Use Season Folders, click save changes

Go to Config/Episode Downloads

In the NZB/Torrent section, select SABnzbd as the NZB Action
In the SABnzbd section enter your SABnzbd settings (the api key can be retrieved by going to SABnzbd and going to /config/general)
Save changes

Go to Config/Search Providers

Enter the details for your search provider

Updating sickbeard with a script

Install

cd /mnt/cache/.custom
wget http://www.lockstockmods.net/dloads/sickbeard-updater.sh
chmod +x sickbeard-updater.sh

Run

Any time you want to update sickbeard just run the following

sh /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard-updater.sh

your old sickbeard folder is backed up to sickbeard_backup. If the update fails, do NOT just rerun it as you may lose your settings.

Updating sickbeard Manually

As we are using a development snapshot version of sickbeard you are going to want to keep it up to date, this is easy to do, but its a manual process.

cd /mnt/cache/.custom
wget http://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/tarball/master
tar zxf midgetspy-Sick-Beard*.tar.gz
rm midgetspy-Sick-Beard*.tar.gz
mv sickbeard/sickbeard.db midgetspy-Sick-Beard-*/
mv sickbeard/config.ini midgetspy-Sick-Beard-*/
mv sickbeard/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg midgetspy-Sick-Beard-*/autoProcessTV/
rm -rf sickbeard
mv midgetspy-Sick-Beard-* sickbeard

Extras

sickbeard-updater.sh

Find below the source for the sickbeard-updater.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Required setting: Absolute path to parent directory of sickbeard folder.
path=/mnt/cache/.custom
sb="sickbeard"

# Optional setting to switch branch. DONT CHANGE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!
branch=master

# Get webgui access settings from autoProcessTV (needs to be set up) and shutdown sickbeard.
host=`echo | grep 'host=' $path/${sb}/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg | cut -d '=' -f2 | tr -d '\r'`
port=`echo | grep 'port=' $path/${sb}/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg | cut -d '=' -f2 | tr -d '\r'`
user=`echo | grep 'username=' $path/${sb}/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg | cut -d '=' -f2 | tr -d '\r'`
pass=`echo | grep 'password=' $path/${sb}/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg | cut -d '=' -f2 | tr -d '\r'`
wget --user=$user --password=$pass http://$host:$port/home/shutdown
sleep 5s

# Get source and untar it.
cd $path
wget http://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/tarball/$branch
tar zxf midgetspy-Sick-Beard*
rm midgetspy-Sick-Beard*.tar.gz

# Make backup copy of old ${sb} & setup new ${sb} version
cp -R ${sb} ${sb}_backup
mv ${sb}/sickbeard.db midgetspy-Sick-Beard-*/
mv ${sb}/config.ini midgetspy-Sick-Beard-*/
mv ${sb}/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.cfg midgetspy-Sick-Beard-*/autoProcessTV/
rm -rf ${sb}
mv midgetspy-Sick-Beard-* ${sb}

# Start SickBeard as daemon
cd ${sb}
nohup python SickBeard.py &

This howto would not be possible without the guys from the XBMC forums.

In particular thanks need to go to
CharlesNasi for the original guide
Bob for the fantastic Boblight utility
The creators of CombustD
jaaps for some modifications to Boblight specific to amBX

If you cant get the files from their official sources you can get boblight and ruby usb here:
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Changelog

2010-05-22 – Initial draft published
2010-06-07 – Updated step 4 and 10 to use combustd 0.2 rather than 0.1 and removed step 11 as depreciated.
2010-06-07 – Removed libc6-dev-i386 as it breaks installation but doesn’t seem to be needed.

Ok so lets start

Getting started

1. First open a terminal, either Ctrl + Alt + F1 in xbmc or ssh into the machine
2. Create a working directory and move into it

   mkdir ambx
   cd ambx

3. (If not installed) install Subversion

   sudo apt-get install subversion

4. get combustd from svn

   svn checkout http://combustd.googlecode.com/svn/branches/combustd-ruby-0.2

5. Download Boblight and extract it to something you want, there is an svn version on googlecode, but i couldnt get it to make

   wget http://www.xs4all.nl/~loosen/boblight/boblight-1.3.tar.gz
   tar zxvf boblight-1.3.tar.gz

6. Get dependencies to compile Boblight, if you have any issues try one package at a time to find the problem, also some of these packages were already installed, can’t remember which ones though.

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install gcc libusb-dev ruby ruby-dev libportaudio-dev libavdevice-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libxrender-dev libsdl1.2-dev libx11-dev

7. Build the package ‘Boblight’:

   cd boblight-1.3
   sudo ./configure
   sudo make
   sudo make install
   cd ..
   

8. Configure Boblight
   Open a text-editor, i use nano, but its up to you and edit the file ‘boblight.conf (It probably wont already exist, thats fine).

   sudo nano /etc/boblight.conf

   Add the following code into the file, this is courtesy of jaaps and allows use of all 5 lights, Z3rO also added some lines to allow adding things like proportional, satuation, black threshold in the config rather than on the commandline.

   [global]
   interface 127.0.0.1
   port 19333
   
   [device]
   name AmbX_Combust
   output "ruby /usr/local/combustd/applications/boblight/boblight.rb"
   channels 15
   type popen
   interval 20000
   
   [color]
   name red
   rgb FF0000
   
   [color]
   name green
   rgb 00FF00
   
   [color]
   name blue
   rgb 0000FF
   
   [light]
   name left
   color red AmbX_Combust 1
   color green AmbX_Combust 2
   color blue AmbX_Combust 3
   hscan 0 33.33
   vscan 0 66.66
   saturation 3.0
   proportional 20.0
   value 3
   threshold 20
   interpolation on
   
   [light]
   name right
   color red AmbX_Combust 4
   color green AmbX_Combust 5
   color blue AmbX_Combust 6
   hscan 66.66 100
   vscan 0 66.66
   saturation 3.0
   proportional 20.0
   value 3
   threshold 20
   interpolation on
   
   [light]
   name wwleft
   color red AmbX_Combust 7
   color green AmbX_Combust 8
   color blue AmbX_Combust 9
   hscan 0 40
   vscan 0 33.33
   saturation 3.0
   proportional 20.0
   value 3
   threshold 20
   interpolation on
   
   [light]
   name wwright
   color red AmbX_Combust 10
   color green AmbX_Combust 11
   color blue AmbX_Combust 12
   hscan 60 100
   vscan 0 33.33
   saturation 3.0
   proportional 20.0
   value 3
   threshold 20
   interpolation on
   
   [light]
   name wwcenter
   color red AmbX_Combust 13
   color green AmbX_Combust 14
   color blue AmbX_Combust 15
   hscan 33 66
   vscan 0 33.33
   saturation 3.0
   proportional 20.0
   value 3
   threshold 20
   interpolation on

   Save the file and exit. (Ctrl + O then Ctrl + X)

   If you are hiding the left and right lights behind the TV, use value 15 on the appropriate lines of the config as above, if you aren’t then use value 3, value sets how bright the lights are.

   Boblight is now configured.

9. Download, Install and compile Ruby-usb

   wget http://www.a-k-r.org/ruby-usb/ruby-usb-0.2.tar.gz
   tar -zxvf ruby-usb-0.2.tar.gz
   cd ruby-usb-0.2
   sudo ruby extconf.rb
   sudo make && sudo make install
   cd ..
   

10. CombustD

    sudo mv combustd-ruby-0.2 /usr/local/combustd

Running boblight

That should be everything configured, now start the daemon.

sudo boblightd

Test if its working

boblight-constant ff00ff; sleep 5; killall boblight-constant

All the lights should come on for 5 seconds (they will be a pinky color) then go off.

Time to start the magic

boblight-X11 -s 5 -t 0.1 -a 20 -v 3
boblight-X11 -t 0.1

This starts the binary, sets the saturation to 5, the interval between refreshes to 0.1 seconds, brightness to 3 and the speed to 20 and sets the interval between refreshes to 0.1 seconds (the other options aren’t needed as they are now set in the config). If you get an error about ERROR: Can’t open display (null) the DISPLAY environment variable isn’t set, just type:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

You will need to redo this when you reboot.

Boblight Configuration Options

You can change the way boblight works by supplying options, the list of options is:

boblight-X11 1.3

Usage: boblight-x11 [OPTION]
Start the X11 grabber for boblight

  -s	set the saturation
  -v	set the value
  -i	set the interpolation, use "-i on" or "-i off"
  -a	set the proportional
  -p	set the priority, default is 128
  -t	set the timer interval, default is 0.5 second,
  -u	set the lights to use, comma separated list
  -e	set the server address[:port]
  -g	grab n pixels on n lines
    	default is 100 for XShmGetImage and 16 for XGetImage
  -m	grab method, use "-m average" or "-m median"
  -x	use XGetImage instead of XShmGetImage (slow!)
  -b	set the black threshold

Todo.

Look into starting boblight on startup
Look into creating a boblight script for xbmc allowing users to change settings and start/stop through GUI
Add some pictures and a youtube video

Automatically starting amBX

By utilising udev we can set amBX to turn on when we press the power button on the amBX system, if you never turn the system off by the power button on the amBX unit, then the lights will automatically come on when xbmc boots.

Create a new udev rule:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-ambx.rules

Copy the code below into it and save:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0471", ATTRS{idProduct}=="083f", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/startambx"

Create the startambx script:

sudo nano /usr/bin/startambx

Copy the code below into it and save:

#!/bin/sh
boblightd
sudo su - xbmc -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 boblight-X11 -t 0.1"

If you are using a username other than xbmc replace the instance above with the appropriate username.

This is very rough at the moment, i have to go through it at some point and tidy it up, the reason its in this rough state was because i was writing it while setting it up on my virtual server, however, its not possible to set this up on it, totally unrelated to this guide though, its just the configuration of the virtual server doesnt allow it.

If you find anything wrong, or have any suggestions, please let me know.

apt-get install openvpn

Create configuration file for the server in /etc/openvpn/server.conf:
port 2746
proto udp
dev tap
;dev-node tap0
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key # This file should be kept secret
dh dh1024.pem
server 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 # vpn subnet
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
;push “route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0″ # home subnet
;duplicate-cn
keepalive 10 120
;cipher BF-CBC # Blowfish (default)
;cipher AES-128-CBC # AES
;cipher DES-EDE3-CBC # Triple-DES
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
;status openvpn-status.log
;log-append openvpn.log
verb 10
mute 20
;client-to-client
;client-config-dir ccd “route 134.33.0.0 255.255.0.0″

cd /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0
nano vars
change to your settings
source ./vars
./clean-all

build the certificate authority certificate and key by invoking the interactive openssl command.
./build-ca

Generate certificates & keys for server:
./build-key server
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
press enter on both

Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]y
type y for both

Generate certificates & keys for client

./build-key client1

A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
press enter on both

Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]y
type y for both

Generate Diffie Hellman parameters

./build-dh
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/ca.crt /etc/openvpn/ca.crt
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.crt /etc/openvpn/server.crt
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/dh1024.pem /etc/openvpn/dh1024.pem
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.key /etc/openvpn/server.key
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/ca.crt /home/lockstock/ca.crt
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/kode.crt /home/lockstock/client1.crt
cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/kode.key /home/lockstock/client1.key

download files to ur clients config folder
client.conf / client.opvm
remote your.ddns.host 2746
client
dev tap
proto udp
resolv-retry infinite # this is necessary for DynDNS
nobind
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client1.crt
key client1.key
comp-lzo
verb 4
mute 20

Step 1: Getting started

What you will need:

• Remote server running SSH (Debian server is used in this guide)
• Putty
• Squid

Install squid:

apt-get install squid

Step 2: Configure putty

• Start putty
• From left hand tree menu select Click SSH (under the Connection menu item) to expand the tree items, then click on Tunnels
• In Source port enter 3128 (default Squid port), select Dynamic and click on the Add button
  
  

  An entry should show up in the forwarded ports section

• In the left hand menu go to Session
• Put the hostname of your server, select SSH (if not already selected), then under Saved Sessions type tunnel (or any name you want to call the saved session) and click save.  This will enable you, in the future to click on “tunnel”, click Load, then Open.
  
• Click Open.  You cannot SSH tunnel without an open connection, it will ask you for your username and password.

Step 3: Configure Firefox

• Click Tools, then select Options…
• Select the Advanced option then then Network tab.
  
• Click on Settings
• Select Manual proxy configuration, then under SOCKS Host type localhost and in Port enter 3128 (In Vista SP1 you might have to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for the SOCKS Host)
  

Congratulations, you should now have a fully functioning SSH Tunnel, you can test this by going to Whats My IP

This guide provides an easy and relatively quick way to PXE boot windows which means you can install Windows over the network with PXE without the need for a CD drive. While the previous guide allows you to slip stream updates and add extra programs it took a LONG LONG time to do, especially with all the downloads it needed to do, this one just installs a vanilla XP, nice and simple, and a lot quicker

Changelog

2008-05-26 – Initial article published
2010-06-22 – Updated last stage with instructions for injecting NIC drivers courtesy of Maarten

Step 1: Getting started.

What you’ll need:

1. Windows 2000/XP CD (to get the i386 directory off it)
2. PC running 2000/XP (to act as a server)
3. Laptop capable of booting over PXE (such as the L400).
4. Tftpd32
   
5. Bart Network Boot Disk
6. SMARTDRV.EXE
7. A Share. The Server must be able to share files (any Microsoft Windows computer can).
8. Working router or plain crossover cable.

Once you’ve collected all of the above, lets begin;

1. Create a share, for the sake of argument create it at c:\WINSTALL
2. Copy your i386 folder and SMARTDRV.EXE into this folder
3. Make a note of your computer name/host name, you can find this out by right clicking on “My Computer”, going to properties, go to “Computer Name” tab, look under Full computer name, in my example, the computers name is STAR, i believe the name needs to be 12 chars or less for this to work in dos mode, so if its longer change it and reboot.



4. Create a folder to PXE boot from, c:\OUTPUT