Last week, Ruudburger announced that CouchPotato v1 is no longer supported by him. The reasoning for this is an all new CouchPotato V2! After updating to the new version of CouchPotato, I’m surprised at how many movies this version is finding that the old version didn’t find. I had a few movies in my “Wanted” list for ages that just sat and sat, I always left them to see if CP would ever pick up on them, but it never did. Now with the new version, it immediately snagged them.
Some of the new features of CouchPotato2 are the following:
- New GUI look.
- Improved handling of “Wanted” movies.
- More native quality options”
- Less customization required.
- New port that it operates on (5051)
The setup for CouchPotato V2 is very similar to CouchPotato V1, with a few minor changes, here are the details:
Mac
- If you’re on Leopard (10.5) install Python 2.6+: Python 2.6.5
- Install GIT
- Open up
Terminal - Go to your CouchPotato folder (
cd /Applications ) - Run
git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git - Then do
python CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py - It should automatically open a browser window with the new site available to you
Windows
- Install PyWin32 2.7 and GIT
- Open up
Git Bash(or CMD) and go to the folder you want to install CP. Something like Program Files. - Run
git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git. - You can now start CP via
CouchPotatoServer\CouchPotato.pyto start
Just installed and loving it. The ‘Automation’ option is great.
Very nice
BTW – Is anyone has problems with settings and it stops working:
http://couchpota.to/forum/showthread.php?tid=17
basically, the settings.config file is in your profile. On mine, x64:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\CouchPotato
Good luck!
I am having trouble setting this up to auto launch from my launch agents folder. I use a plist file to auto launch things like headphones, sick beard but for whatever reason I’m unable to launch headphones the same way. Any ideas?
OS X 10.6.8
can anyone help me? Every time i set everything up and hit “wow this button is big and green!” Safari ends up not connecting to the server. I cannot figure out what I’m doing wrong. I new to this and I’m sure its something so simple as to why its not working. Please help! I skipped V1 and went straight to V2. Hope that does not make a difference
figured it out. I had to use Chrome. OMG! WTF!
okay I just installed couchpotato server v2. do I have to go into terminal every single time I want to access couchpotato? is there some sort of script I can run so I don’t have to do that? I mean that seems like a lot
If you do a -d flag after the app name, it will launch it as a daemon, and wont require you to open terminal every time you access CP, only after a restart.
of trouble doing that everytime I have to restart my computer. thanks again for all the guides and help. glad I’m not the only one out there doing this kind of stuff.