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Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.
Installation
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Connect to your slot through SSH
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Create a Python 3 virtualenv with the instructions found here or use an existing one.
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Download the latest version of Bazarr
wget https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/releases/latest/download/bazarr.zip
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Extract the latest version of Bazarr
unzip -d ~/bazarr bazarr.zip
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Activate your Python 3 virtualenv if it is not already active. If you are using a different directory for your virtualenv, use that directory instead.
source ~/virtualenv/bin/activate
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Change your directory
cd ~/bazarr
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Install bazarr's Python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
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Launch Bazarr. Port 18358 has been automatically generated for you, but you may use another 5 digit port between 10000 and 65535.
screen -dmS bazarr ~/virtualenv/bin/python3 ~/bazarr/bazarr.py -p 18358
Access Bazarr at http://server.whatbox.ca:18358
and follow the configuration wizard. Once Bazarr is configured, click on the link near the top of the page to restart Bazarr.
IMPORTANT: Click on Settings
and change Authentication
to Forms (Login Page)
. Add a username and password you wish to use to access Bazarr. Click the Save
button at the top of the page and then click the link to restart Bazarr again. You will be redirected to the login page where you can login with the username and password you provided.
To update Bazarr, shut down Bazarr with pkill -f bazarr
then follow the installation instructions again.
Automatically restart
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Make a file to be used for the script.
touch ~/bazarr_restart.cron
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Edit the file and enter the text below.
nano -w ~/bazarr_restart.cron
#!/bin/bash if pgrep -fx "/home/user/virtualenv/bin/python3 /home/user/bazarr/bazarr.py -p 18358" > /dev/null then echo "bazarr is running." else echo "bazarr is not running, starting bazarr" screen -dmS bazarr /home/user/virtualenv/bin/python3 /home/user/bazarr/bazarr.py -p 18358 fi exit
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Save the file with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.
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Make the script executable.
chmod +x ~/bazarr_restart.cron
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Open your crontab.
EDITOR=nano crontab -e
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Enter the following text
@reboot /home/user/bazarr_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * /home/user/bazarr_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
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Save the crontab with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.