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Im currently using Sab on my laptop as and when needed but I'm hoping to get a home network sorted and to automate my Sab downloads to a networked hard drive whilst I'm away from the house.

Can this be done?

How do you set up at home?

SABnzbd needs to run on a device. So that device must be in your house. PC/Macs can do that, the Raspberry PI, and certain NAS-devices (Synology?) can do that too. Setting up SABnzbd on a NAS can be harder than setting it up on a PC/Mac.

Does this help?

It kind of narrows things down for me I suppose.

Perhaps Something like an Acer REVO (mini pc) as the media streamer would be the best bet then?

In terms of the Pi, would the low spec have an impact on a home entertainment system at all?

The REVO is about £150 and the Pi is about £40

"media streamer"? "home entertainment system"? Do you need that too? In your first post you were only talking about a *download* system...

A media streamer / home entertainment system has more elaborate specs: better CPU, good GPU, remote control, ready-to-play-with.
If the REVO can do that, you can also run SABnzbd on that.

The Raspi is only suitable if you're able to hack computers.

Sander

Sorry you are right, I didn't elaborate too much.

Essentially I want to do away with having to constantly transfer files from my laptop to my iPad and connecting that to the tv just to watch my files. In addition it would be great if I didn't need to boot upmy laptop just to download a film or two.

I recognize that completely: that's the reason I bought a HDX-100 years ago: a media player that can download NZBs

However, I can't advice you on current media players. Oh, wait, a few advices: buy a media player that's
- ready-to-run, so: plug it in, and use the remote control to control it
- open, so that you can install SABnzbd

HTH

Is it true that you can buy NAS storage devices that can run SAB, thus reducing the need for a media streamer/player altogether?

Or does the NAS simply provide the storage of the files and therefore a media player is needed regardless?

Thanks again for your help here.

There are NAS-devices that can run SABnzbd, and there are (modern) TV's than can play content over a network from a NAS, fileserver or DLNA-server.

So, yes it is possible.

EDIT: so the easy answer is: some (modern) TVs have a media-player built in.
EDTI 2: and there are (do it yourself?) media players that can also act as a NAS and SABnzbd ...

You could set up a low power PC to handle everything. I set up a 199.00 Zotac Nano for a friend. It has a 1.8 ghz core and hdmi out. This is whats running on it.
OS: Win7 Pro
Xbmc
Sabznbd
Sickbeard
Couchpotato
Headphones (launched when needed not always running)

When watching a movie when SAB is unpacking a download, there can be a slight video stutter. But if you want a all in one box downloader/streamer it work pretty well. However I prefer the NAS solution.

sander wrote:There are NAS-devices that can run SABnzbd, and there are (modern) TV's than can play content over a network from a NAS, fileserver or DLNA-server.

So, yes it is possible.

EDIT: so the easy answer is: some (modern) TVs have a media-player built in.
EDTI 2: and there are (do it yourself?) media players that can also act as a NAS and SABnzbd ...

Follow up to my own post: I bought a Sony TV (Sony KDL-32EX650 LED tv) which does exactly the above: it can play stuff from DLNA and other shares, all via wifi. Very great TV.

My set up is a home built pc running Ubuntu 12.04.1 headless. It runs sab/sickbeard/couchpotato/LazyLibrian/calibre/PlexMediaServer and also serves as my router/gateway/firewall and a web server for my photo sharing.

Plex will serve out via DLNA, so your tv could use that. I have a Logitech Revue w/ the Plex client installed and it's attached to my tv.

I've been unable to play subtitles with my xvid movies using DLNA so I wind up just connecting my laptop to the TV just to get the subtitles. They are srt or idx. Any workaround?

Bily wrote:I've been unable to play subtitles with my xvid movies using DLNA so I wind up just connecting my laptop to the TV just to get the subtitles. They are srt or idx. Any workaround?

Your question is not very SAB related. Short answer: burn the subtitles into the xvid, using - for example - Handbrake / HandbrakeCLI