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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

If you have not installed pip and virtualenv, you can read more about it here. In short, you can try:

curl -s https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3 - --user
echo "PATH=\$HOME/.local/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
pip install --user virtualenv
virtualenv virtualenv3

1. Connect to your slot through SSH

2. Create a Python 3 virtualenv with the instructions found here or use an existing one.

3. Download the latest version of Bazarr

    wget https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/releases/latest/download/bazarr.zip
   

4. Extract the latest version of Bazarr

    unzip -d ~/bazarr bazarr.zip
   

5. 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 ~/virtualenv3/bin/activate
   

6. Change your directory

    cd ~/bazarr
   

7. Install bazarr's Python dependencies

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

8. Launch Bazarr. Port 16347 has been automatically generated for you, but you may use another 5 digit port between 10000 and 65535.

    screen -dmS bazarr ~/virtualenv3/bin/python3 ~/bazarr/bazarr.py -p 16347
   

Access Bazarr at http://server.whatbox.ca:16347 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

1. Make a file to be used for the script. touch ~/bazarr_restart.cron

2. Edit the file and enter the text below. nano -w ~/bazarr_restart.cron

    #!/bin/bash
    if pgrep -fx "/home/user/virtualenv3/bin/python /home/user/bazarr/bazarr.py -p 16347" > /dev/null
    then
        echo "bazarr is running."
    else 
        echo "bazarr is not running, starting bazarr"
        /home/user/virtualenv3/bin/python /home/user/bazarr/bazarr.py -p 16347
    fi
    exit
   

3. Save the file with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.

4. Make the script executable. chmod +x ~/bazarr_restart.cron

5. Open your crontab. EDITOR=nano crontab -e

6. Enter the following text

    @reboot /home/user/bazarr_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
    */5 * * * * /home/user/bazarr_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
   

7. Save the crontab with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.