SickRage / SickChill

⚠️ SickRage is deprecated on Bytesized. It has been superseded by Sonarr, which offers better integration with modern indexers, download clients and Plex. New installations should use Sonarr.

SickRage (later renamed SickChill) is a PVR for TV shows. It monitors release lists and automatically downloads new episodes using your configured torrent or Usenet client.

How it works on Bytesized

SickRage is configured to work with both rTorrent and Deluge out of the box by downloading .torrent files to ~/torrents/watch/, where they are automatically picked up by your client and then processed by Filebot.

There is no post-processing done by SickRage by default, as this would interfere with Filebot's post-processing. You can enable it, but note that connecting SickRage directly to your torrent client will likely cause Filebot to stop working.

Connecting directly to rTorrent

If you want to skip Filebot and use SickRage directly with rTorrent, use these settings — note that you need to submit the details twice due to a known bug:

Setting	Value
rTorrent host:port	`username.servername.bysh.me/rutorrent`
HTTP Authentication	basic
rTorrent username	Your username
rTorrent password	Your rTorrent password

Press Save and Test connection — you will get an error. Then change the host to username.servername.bysh.me/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php and it should work on the second attempt.

Manually updating / SickRage not starting

Open a terminal via SSH or VNC and run:

cd ~/apps/sickrage && git checkout master && git pull

Then restart the app from your dashboard. If it still fails, raise a support ticket.

SickChill won't start after update (April 2020)

Run the following fix script via SSH or VNC:

/opt/scripts/fix_sickchill.sh

If the script is not available, run these commands manually:

cd ~/apps/sickrage/
find . -name "*.pyc" -delete
find lib -empty -type d -delete
git pull
git clean -dfq lib
~/.startup/sickrage

SickChill won't start after update (September 2020)

Run via SSH or VNC:

sed -ibak s/SickBeard/SickChill/ ~/.startup/sickrage

Then start SickChill from your dashboard or run ~/.startup/sickrage directly.