Full disclosure.... Most of you know.... I've always been a geek at
heart. Sure during my day job I work as an engineer on capital
projects, but I like to hack and stuff. I recall around 2004 Aaron
asked me to help setup a website/blog for tvbarn.com -- I did this via
command line and dial-up modem from a gold mine site (google Red Lake,
Ontario) remotely on a server at pair.com (Boston, MA?). Anyway,
that's irrelevant to this post.
The subject line of this post is a progression of getting tv content in my life.
* Late 1970's we got cable. yes, this brought the Love Boat....
endlessley on CIII (aka Global TV).
* Splitters (RG-59 at Radio Shack) brought analog cable to elsewhere
in my house, including my black-and-white in my bedroom. Okay, Love
Boat in my bedroom.... yay?
* my first job brought me cash to buy my first betamax hifi (official
video equip of 1984 Olympics). Only $999. (40+ year old me says
WTF???).
* beta then died - because my wife/girlfriend over-watered the plant
she put on the Beta-HiFi (WTF???). A special shout-out to an
engineering friend who taught me how to wash circuit boards with 99%
alcohol, toothbrush and distilled water.. Anyway we migrated to
VHS.
* VHS went along for many years. ("did anyone else tape Friends last night?")
* TIVO arrived in my house -- which was WAAAY before anyone locally
had the cable-box PVR's. Special shout-out to the tivocanada geeks.
* Then, I learned, along with my kids, to download the shows we like
from torrents, if we couldn't use the cable PVR for it.
* Sometime in 2014 I read about SickBeard and SABnzbd, the "Internet
PVR". I *HAD* to investigate.
Ho...Leeeeee.....Fuuuuuck. This just CLICKED with me this week. The
concept of sickbeard is this.....
1) tell it the shows you want to get downloads of.
2) specify the quality you want. I'll take 720p for most, and SD for
John Oliver. Note, I don't get John Oliver on my cable subscription.
3) sickbeard watches indexes published for stuff on USENET groups
(yeah, remember those?)
4) sickbeard downloads a file called an NZB file ("news binary") that
says which USENET posts have the bits and pieces of the show you want.
5) another program called SABnzbd downloads the "usenet articles" that
comprise the show you want. Caveat - I had to buy a block of 200GB
data on a usenet server for $20. SABnzbd also reassembles the show
into a video file.
So, how timely is this?
* The Good Wife on sunday night was downloaded by 11:02 PM EDT Sunday night.
* Madam Secretary was downloaded by 22:22 PM EDT Sunday night.
This was freaking AUTOMATED.
no commercials. no football stuff.
Then I dragged the video files into a folder that my Plex server
monitors, and presto.... i can watch on my DLNA-tv, chromecast, or
tablet. The last piece of the puzzle for me is to config the proper
post-processing script to move video files into the proper place.
ho...leeee.....crap.
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