Installing Couch Potato

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Installing Couch Potao This guide will assume the following:

  • You have installed a package manager (IPKG)
  • You have your PATH variable set correctly
  • You do not yet have Python installed
  • Your want to install Couch Potato in /opt/bin/couchpotato
  • You are logged in as root, use sudo where necessary if this is not the case or sudo -E -s to become root


  • Firstly, install Python2.6: 
ipkg install python26

(note. this may take a while be patient ie. 10-20 minutes)

  • Next, download and install Cherrypy: 
wget http://download.cherrypy.org/cherrypy/3.2.0/CherryPy-3.2.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf CherryPy-3.2.0.tar.gz
cd CherryPy-3.2.0
python setup.py install
cd ..
  • Installing Cheetah: 
ipkg install py25-cheetah

Installing unZip (should be installed per default, you may skip): 

ipkg install unzip
  • Download Couch Potato: 
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotato/zipball/master
  • Install couch potato (your filename might differ, so replace the df88048 with your according RuudBurger-CouchPotato-XXXXXXX.zip): 
unzip RuudBurger-CouchPotato-df88048.zip
mv RuudBurger-CouchPotato-df88048 /opt/bin/couchpotato
cd /opt/bin/couchpotato
/opt/bin/python2.6 CouchPotato.py

You should now be able to connect to couch potato through your browser of choice: http://stora:5000 (replace stora with IP address if DNS doesn't resolve) Now would be a good time to update your Couch Potato, do that by clicking the bottom link reading: Version: UNKNOWN Build. , Check for new version

  • Optional: Run Couch Potato on boot:

Install nano (if you don't already have it, or use vi): 

ipkg install nano

Add Couch Potato to start on boot: 

nano /etc/rc.local

You should edit a file looking similar to 

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/telnetenabled
/usr/bin/ubifs_repair.sh
/opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/bin/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d

Add the following line: 

nice -n 15 ionice -c2 -n6 /opt/bin/python2.6 /opt/bin/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d

(note. that i have added nice and ionice levels to my CP to prevent it eating up too many resources, you don't need that)

Reboot your Stora and you are done. 

reboot

--Deandre 01:57, 4 December 2011 (UTC) This was first posted here: 

http://www.openstora.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1009&p=6579&hilit=Couchpotato#p6579
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