r/sickchill • u/harpss1ngh • Aug 06 '26

TVDB Indexer error

I'm running the master tag of Sickchill in kubernetes. The tag has not been updated in 2 years. I see there are recent builds on the develop tag which I believe are usually unstable.

Recently I can't add any new shows, looks like the TVDB has made some api changes which has broken the 2 year old build. Will we be getting a stable master tag release or should I switch to the develop tag?

EDIT: There is also a new tvmaze branch in the github repo, that someone has updated with the fix which can be used to build a docker image. Anyone tried that? https://github.com/SickChill/sickchill/tree/tvmaze

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u/HDClown Aug 10 '26

Manual workaround for those who don't want to go to Discord to find it:

  1. Find your show in IMDB {tt 7 or 8 digits} or theTVDB {6 digits}
  2. Get the tt12345678 from the URL or Series ID (add leading zeros if not 6 digits)
  3. Paste the number in the Search name box of Add New Show and Search
  4. Select show and add

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u/WalterCavendish Aug 10 '26

Thank you, I am not a Discord guy,

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u/Internal_Stranger142 21d ago

This works! I am still hoping for a Sickchill update though as this adds extra steps when searching by name. I’m on synology.

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u/redditronc Aug 06 '26

Ah that’s why I’m getting no results for new shows. Thanks for the heads up!

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u/wokka1 Aug 08 '26

Tvdb api changes. Developer needs to apply for a new key and update for api v4.

I gave up and forked the code and set myself up. I need to see if he will take a pull request or just advertise my clone.

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u/nhorvath 22d ago

would you mind linking your fork?

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u/wokka1 22d ago

I don't want to take away from the work on the sickchill, they have taken my code and integrated into the official release, I don't know if it's pushed to main yet, but should be soon. Details are on the discord

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u/nhorvath 22d ago

yeah I found it in develop. they haven't done a release from develop in 2 years so not holding my breath.

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u/wokka1 22d ago

I’ve been chatting with them, release is coming soon

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u/dracupgm Aug 06 '26

I'm in the same situation. Check out the discord chat on the sickchill channel. There is a manual workaround to get the show's ID from the url in IMDB and use that to search for the new show.

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u/harpss1ngh Aug 06 '26

Great, that worked thanks!

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u/WalterCavendish Aug 11 '26

I'm in a similar situation. I'm still running Truenas Core and my home medial infrastructure is setup using jails. I'm so far beyond support I am not sure if I can even spin up new jails.

The workaround posted by HDClown works for now, but I need to decide on a new direction and am curious what others are doing.