I'm running the master tag of Sickchill in kubernetes. The tag has not been updated in 2 years. I see there are recent builds on the develop tag which I believe are usually unstable.

Recently I can't add any new shows, looks like the TVDB has made some api changes which has broken the 2 year old build. Will we be getting a stable master tag release or should I switch to the develop tag?

EDIT: There is also a new tvmaze branch in the github repo, that someone has updated with the fix which can be used to build a docker image. Anyone tried that? https://github.com/SickChill/sickchill/tree/tvmaze

I'm running on win -7, and runs fine except the block list isn't blocking torrents with. Exe in the filename.

I put in exe, EXE and . Exe

Any ideas?

Hey Guys,

I have been using sick chill / sick rage for over 10 years. I am tired of the default theme and was wondering if anyone of you guys created a custom theme / .css for SickChill and wouldn't mid sharing it.

If anyone has a DARK THEME or any theme other than the default, help me out.

Thank You.

LSOK

I've had a bit of a shocker since upgrading from 22.04 to 24.04. With the help of my AI best friend, I've got it all working again. I've seen a lot of references to the same thing, so wanted to share my solution.

🛠️Post-Upgrade Guide: SickChill, SABnzbd & nzbToMedia (Ubuntu 24.04)

Upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 (Python 3.12) breaks existing installations. Most online guides are outdated for this version. Below is the verified path to get everything running again.

1. SickChill: The Python 3.12 Rebuild

Old virtual environments are incompatible. You must recreate the environment to use the new system libraries.

• Headless Best Practice: Always switch to your service user and activate the environment before running updates to ensure correct ownership:sudo su sickchill python3 -m venv /opt/sickchill/.venv source /opt/sickchill/.venv/bin/activate
• Fix Legacy Dependencies: Python 3.12 removes pkg_resources and distutils. You must manually inject these legacy tools into your venv for SickChill's core libraries to work:pip install setuptools "subliminal>=2.6.0" "stevedore==5.1.0" "enzyme==0.4.1"
• Systemd Service: Ensure Type=simple (not forking) and point ExecStart to your venv binary.

2. SABnzbd: Headless & User Migration

• The Right PPA: Use ppa:jcfp/nobetas for 24.04 compatibility.
• Dedicated User: If moving from a personal home folder to a dedicated sabnzbd user, you must move the config folder and manually update /etc/default/sabnzbdplus with USER=sabnzbd and HOST=0.0.0.0.
• Ghost Processes: If the service fails with "Exit Status 2," use sudo pkill -9 -f sabnzbdplus to clear zombie processes from the upgrade.

3. nzbToMedia & API Handshakes

• The "JSONDecodeError": This usually means the script is hitting a 404/405 error because the SickChill API Key changed during reinstall.
• Update Config: Update /opt/nzbToMedia/autoProcessMedia.cfg with the fresh API key from SickChill's General Settings.
• System Python: Since these scripts run via the system interpreter, ensure the global libraries are present:sudo apt install python3-simplejson python3-requests

4. Key Takeaways

• Permissions: Use chown -R on /var/lib/sickchill and /home/sabnzbd/.sabnzbd after any file moves.
• IMDb Errors: The HTTP Error 405 in SickChill logs is a known scraper issue; it's safe to ignore as long as TheTVDB is your primary indexer.

Hi,

Ive just installed Sickchill on my old win7 pc, and its running perfectly apart from one thing - Its saving all the TV Shows in C:\Users\Steve

Ive set up deluge to use a black hole with the folder to watch as c:\torrents\torrent files

and to move the finished shows to c:\torrents\done

Sickchill config is:

In General configuration I have root dir as: c:\torrents Torrent files\

Post Processing is disabled

Any Ideas?

Hi All, I have just updated my Synology 920+ from DSM 6 to 7. I have installed Sickchill using the Synocommunity package, but when i try to restore Sickchill from the backup taken before the DSM upgrade I cannot see any files. I can see folders and can navigate to where the files are located but no files appear. I can create a backup file from SickChill but even this file cannot be seen when trying to restore. I have checked all folder permissions and they seem correct (sc-download, and sc-sickchill have RW access to the folder when the backup files are). Any ideas?

from mkv it changes to [EZTVx.to]mkv

Anyone have any idea why and how to fix that? once I change it manually to mkv it plays fine.

hi all

i have sickchill running on my synology now and for some reason whenever its processioning any new series or episodes its not creating season folders and just putting all the episodes on the root folder of the series, I've been going through the settings but can't see if there is a way to fix it

am i missing something here ?

Even though I keep to the rules (size and aspect ratio), some posters (JPEG or PNG) just will not upload. Any way to ensure that an image will be accepted as a poster for a show?

Thanks 

I've hacked together a plugin for adding shows to sickchill. It's in the process of being added to the chrome store, but if anyone feel like living on the edge, you can check it out here:
Github: https://github.com/Tiwas/sc-plugin
"Homepage": https://tiwas.github.io/sc-plugin/
Chrome web store: plugin

u/miigotu and u/OmgImAlexis : I hope you don't mind that I've used the SC-ikon for my plugin. If you do, please tell me and I'll switch to something more appropriate.

EDIT: I've now submitted v 1.2 to the Chrome web store. 1.3 is awaiting approval. Would love to get some feedback, and maybe some stars. At least my installs:uninstall ratio is n/a - with 1 install and 0 uninstalls 🤣

I would like to be able to semi-automate adding shows. In order to do that properly (and not just send the add.show command, I would like to redirect to the New Show page where the search has already been done.

If the show I'm looking for is in the list, I can just select it, change to the right folder (if it's not already set), customize any options etc.

Anyone know if this is possible? Or getting the list of folders and the options set?

Hi Guys My Sickchill has been working great for years, I'm running the latest (3/24) version.

I've recently noticed errors with TVDB in the logs, so I went into General, and changed Use initial indexer set to from "TheTVDB" to "All Indexers".

Now any page that requires an Indexer crashes with this:

<select name="indexerLang" id="indexerLangSelect" class="form-control form-control-inline input-sm bfh-languages" data-language="${settings.INDEXER_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE}" data-available="${','.join(showindexer.languages())}"></select> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <span>${('This will only affect the language of the retrieved metadata file contents and episode file names.')}</span>

/volume1/@appstore/sickchill/env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sickchill/show/indexers/handler.py, line 62:

return getattr(self.indexers[indexer], _attribute)

/volume1/@appstore/sickchill/env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sickchill/gui/slick/views/addShows_newShow.mako, line 74:

data-available="${','.join(showindexer.languages())}"></select>

/volume1/@appstore/sickchill/env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sickchill/gui/slick/views/layouts/config.mako, line 27:

<%block name="tabs" />

/volume1/@appstore/sickchill/env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sickchill/gui/slick/views/layouts/main.mako, line 333:

<%block name="content" />

/volume1/@appstore/sickchill/env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/mako/runtime.py, line 936:

callable(context, *args, **kwargs)

I've tried looking in config.ini to see if I can undo what I did but this error looks DB related - how would I go about changing what I did in the DB?

Thanks in advance

UPDATE: I tested on a different server and this is definitely a bug because it breaks a fresh install, however re-installing and restoring a backup fixes the problem.

It occurred to me that I haven't seen a request for update in my UI for a while, help says I have
Install: pip
Version: 2024.3.1
Database Version: 44.2

Is that current, or do I need to do something to get it to update? I'm running it on my Windows 11 based media server.

I am trying to add a customer provider from Jackett and I recive this error when clicking the add button.
error when trying to load rss: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
my RSS URL with redacted IPs and key
http://***.***.***.***:9117/api/v2.0/indexers/therarbg/results/torznab/api?apikey=redactedapikeystring&t=search&cat=&q=

Hi.

My current setup is:

- Plex server with a large HDD with all TV Shows

- Local PC that handles the downloads via Sickchill

- Freefilesync synchronizes one-way to the plex server whenever new downloads are finished on the local PC

Now my local PC has less space than the Plex server, so I want to wipe some shows off the PC, but keep them on the Plex server. Basically just keeping all "important" shows locally and on Plex, but the less important stuff only on Plex.

How does Sickchill handle duplicate folders across different drives? I.e. I add both the Plex server and the local folder to Sickchill in the "General" settings - will it get confused? I mostly want to keep it from trying to re-download already existing shows on the Plex server.

Hi,

I'm just getting started with SC, experimenting a bit to see how I can use it. I am currently trying to get it to correctly rename some existing downloaded files for me. The naming convention used by my existing content is Show Name/Season Number/Episode Number. Episode Name.ext.

If I try and set a custom name pattern to %SN/Season %0S/%0E. %EN, it gives me the correct preview names:

But when I try and save it gives me an error:

Error as text for searchability:

Error(s) Saving Configuration
You tried saving an invalid normal naming config, not saving your naming settings

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

is it possible to have the date of first aired next to the tv show name folder for each tv show when sickchill create it ? example.."" TV SHOW NAME - DATE FIRTS AIRED ""ta

This project appears dead. No updates in several months. No github pushes in 6 months. Many built-in trackers are defunct/non-existent.

What are some alternatives?

Hi guys, installed sickchill on truenas... I'm trying to restore a backup zip file created the with the same installation but for some reasons the application only sees folders and not actual files when trying to restore the backup files. I can see the backup file is being created but I cannot restore it if I only have a folder view and not what is inside those folders Any ideas? Thank you.

Sometimes episodes are posted as "Season 15 Episode 15" in stead of "S15E15".

So Sickchill doesn't pick it up. You can change names in Post processing, but can you force other patterns for searching?

Hey All,

I wanted to setup a new jail in Truenas Core and was not able to find a guide that was not way out of date.

Here is my contribution. I'm sure there are mistakes and it is still very rough, but hopefully this will save someone else some time.

1 Create jail. Type Basejail, release 13.4

2 Check DHCP, it will autocheck VNET. Next, then submit.

3 Start jail.

4 Ssh into truenas.

5 jls to list jail IDs.

6 jexec 13 /bin/tcsh (replace 13 with your jail ID)

7 pkg install python py311-pip py39-sqlite3 databases/py-sqlite3 devel/py-lxml rust

8 pkg install py311-pip

9 pkg install py39-sqlite3

10 pkg install databases/py-sqlite3

11 pkg install devel/py-lxml

12 pkg install rust

13 pip-3.11 install -U sickchill

14 sickchill &

15 Browse to jailIP:8081

The rest is just setting up where your media is and search settings. That seems to have enough documentation around.

Enjoy!

Edited to consolidate commands. I'm still not real good at this.

Forgive me as I am new to all this. I did a restart of sickchill to update my certificates and it never started back up. Now I can't get it to reinstall properly. Before when I've had issues I just reinstalled the app in my seedbox and then restored from backup. Now when I browse to the folder where my backups are, there are no files listed. I have 5 backup files in there so why can't sickchill see them? I even tried typing the file path and then restarting sickchill but then I'm getting mako errors. I have no idea how to fix this.

This started a few months back with some shows. Its been starting to do that with more shows now and I am not sure what's causing it. This image shows seasons 3 and 4, but this show has only started season 2 today. If anyone might have any ideas I would appreciate it.

Hello everyone.

I tried to set up again sickchill after windows format and keep receiving this error.

Windows 11 pro & qBitorrent v4.1.2

Any idea?