CouchPotato Autostart

[Balth89]

Hi all,
I´ve managed to install both couchpotato and sonanr to automate my downloads on my RP2 using the latest version of OSMC. Sonarr is working great but i´m having a problem with couchpotato. I´ve followed this guide to perform the installation since my linux knowledge is null.

Install CouchPotato Raspberry Pi with Raspbian •

I´ve come to the part where i can launch successfully the CP daemon with:

python /opt/CouchPotato/CouchPotato.py

Everything works fine until i close the SSH program and the daemon is closed. First of all i would like to ask why doesn’t the daemon keeps running when i close the program?

My problem comes up with the creation of the init.d Script as referred on the guide. i´ve changed the user and location to osmc on the scipt but for some reason CP still doesnt autostart. Can anyone shed some light on what might be wrong?

Thanks a lot for the help.

[Toast]

Here is a more tested version then that one redo and use this instead

How to install CouchPotato and SickChill on Raspberry Pi

Instructions for installation of CouchPotato and SickChill for Raspberry Pi ** UPDATE - November 2019 - fixed unrar error, unrar replaced with p7zip and p7zip-full. Three different installation scripts for SickRage, SickChill or Medusa. Changed SickRage git repo to: GitHub - SiCKRAGE/SiCKRAGE: Mirror of OFFICIAL SiCKRAGE ** UPDATE - December 2018 - edit and uploaded new scripts to install SickChill. They are at the bottom of this post. ** UPDATE - at the end of instructions are the script…

[Balth89]

Cool thanks .

But now how do I unistall my current version of CP.?

[Toast]

sudo rm -r /opt/CouchPotato/

[Balth89]

Hi thanks for all the help. I´ve been able to strat the daemon and it´s working good. Unfortunately if i restart my RP the CP service doesn’t auto start. I suspet that i did something wrong following the guide that you gave me. On the fourth step when is says:

sudo nano ./init/couchpotato.service
To change line, use “ExecStart=/var/lib/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py --daemon”
To new line, use "ExecStart=/opt/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py --daemon

What am i suppose to do?

What i did was copy exacly what is refered:

[Unit]
Description=CouchPotato application instance
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py --daemon
GuessMainPID=no
Type=forking
User=couchpotato
Group=couchpotato
KillMode=process

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And then Ctrl+C, Y Enter to save. Was this the correct way of doing it?

Thanks for the assistance.

[Toast]

Ask the guy that wrote the howto im not touching couchpotato or sickrage since it is a greyarea

Tnx for your understanding regarding this // Toast

[nenad]

I think that your script is installed correctly, but your startup script didn’t correctly. Can you please try command (you can look at guide, I fixed my mistake):
sudo systemctl enable couchpotato.service