Ultimate RaspBMC Home Server Setup

Ok, so I recently discovered the overall capabilities of the RPi and I can say I absolutely love it. I already had a home server but I completely took it out of use with the Pi. RaspBMC is really great, but not if you just want to use one TV on XBMC/Kodi. I'd go for OpenELEC if you don't need a home server.

Here's what I have running:

I installed RaspBMC on the v1 of the Raspberry Pi B model. I don't have the + model yet, but it doesn't seem to make a big difference from what I read anyways. I have it set up with the original settings, I plugged it in and let it run. That's it for the Pi. It was simple to do, get a Pi, get RaspBMC, image write it to the SD, boot it. Done.

Next

Now for the server part, I use FTP, mainly because I have had issues with Samba/SMB in the past. I have Wiis, I have like 4. I threw Priiloader 0.8 Beta 3 on them, and had them boot straight to WiiMC with their FTP settings set to the RPi's FTP server settings.

And that's pretty much it. I just have to make sure the things I download aren't over 480p. I basically only grab files that are either XViD or x264-SD. It plays pretty much any audio if you like to do your own encodes as well.

Idea for simple automated rtorrent server + XBMC home media center

First you must have a home seedbox already set up for this, you can Google the phrase 'seedbox from scratch script notos' and its an easy install script for debian squeeze (6.0.X). I have installed it on roughly 7 different computer setups including a Raspberry Pi (which will be mentioned further soon). Once you have a home running seedbox you can begin.

Go get a Raspverry Pi if you dont have any computers with an HDMI output and a decent graphics card. If you don't have a computer to use for a server at all, buy two RPi's, they're like $40, just fucking get one already, fuck. Install a minimal install of a RPi OS that is based on Debian Squeeze, and install the seedbox from scratch script, you dont need FAIL2BAN and all the other bullshit if you are just having a rtorrent server at your home, just say no to all of it besides rtorrent, unless you know what you're doing.

Once done, add your RSS feeds from your favorite private trackers and add some regex mumbo jumbo in the RSS feed manager utility, make them look like this crap as seen below:

Lets say you wanted Adventure Time, now if you are new to torrents, torrents are labeled as to what they are like a 720p HDTV, is a rip from directly from the magical movie box in your house made in HD quality, this is probably what you want unless you're on a modded Nintendo Wii with WiiMC (no offence WiiMC devs, the Wii's hardware just isn't good enough for you guys). Well anyways, you press that ol' add button on the Rss manager GUI and you put in shit that would look like this for Adventure Time

/Adventure.Time.*720p.*HDTV.*/i

note the periods, some sites you need them in the regex, some you do not.

the *, is known as a wildcard, that tells regex that there can be anything after it at all and it will still be allowed to download it, like Adventure.Time.S01E01.720p.HDTV-SCENEGROUPA.

but since we never get to know when one group will just stop ripping something, we keep it a wild card (*) just incase another one takes over.

Now set up curlftpfs, and sym link your hard drive from your other networked RPi, the one we installed RASPBMC on, oh we didn't install that yet? well go do that on another SD card while you're still waiting for that fucking script to fucking finish already. 

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then go ahead and activate autounpack on all TV torrents, you need to label them btw, you should already have done this anyways you unorganized fuck. put the regex filter in the auto unpack field "/TV/" and have them unpack to "unrard' or some other name for your unrard shit, also make sure your torrents are set on a time lease on the RSS manager too so you dont ever have to clean out the hard drive on the pi.

yeah well i forgot the rest now im too fucked up youll figure it out from here

also make a cronjob to move all the files from the unrard folder to the ftp address, because autounpack bitches about curlftp locations.

go have fun watching tv you fuck

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Seedbox at home! DIY home made seedbox!

I run my own seedbox in house. I don't feel like overpaying for a server is necessary when I have (maybe low speed) internet at home already.

I pay out of the ass for really slow internet, so why should I pay for someone's internet too?

This is what I run:

• 256MB DDR RAM
• 2.60GHz Single Core Processor
• Random Old Motherbard w/ Sata
• 160GB Main Sata Disk
• 80GB Extra IDE Disk
• 2TB External USB Storage
• DVD Drive (random)

Now that isn't shit if you plan on running Windows. But we arent :). So now that you went around your house and found some old stuff to throw together, well throw it together now...

I run these services all on the specification you read above

How to use RSS in ruTorrent without irssi!

I don't like autodl-irssi. A lot of people do, I don't. So I needed a way to make my ruTorrent automatically start my shows and movies.

See, ruTorrent already HAD a RSS plugin BEFORE autodl-irssi, but a lot of people just like the new one. Again. I don't, quite frankly I hate it, it's just too complicated.

But the old plugin uses RegEx filters in order to grab your shows, when I first saw them I found it really really annoying and complicated, but once you understand it, it's not.

First things first you need an RSS feed, you can get these from your private trackers servers, usually there's a huge button that says RSS.

Here is how to use it

Filedrop for ruTorrent + install

Ever hate having to go to the top bar in rutorrent to find your files and then upload them?

There's a plugin for you then!

Filedrop, this is a plugin that supports Chrome and Firefox, it allows you to "drag and drop" a .torrent file from anywhere on your computer. Even from the bottom bar in chrome and download manager in Firefox. Which makes is very convenient to just hit the download button on your favorite trackers!

To install this make sure you have rtorrent and rutorrent fully installed!

Here we go!

Awesome automatic DIY Seedbox Script from base install!

Recently I installed my own rtorrent build on my home server, I run Debain 6.0.7 (aka squeeze). I do this a lot, I like to play with Debian a lot.

I found a cool script called Seedbox From Scratch, it installs basically everything that someone who is an avid... file downloader would need.

Basically here is a break down of what this does and how to use it.