Flexget vs Couch Potato and Sick Beard

[zilexa]

Flexget is fantastic. Once setup, you do not need to configure it, EVER. The only UI you see is Trakt.tv and transmission webUI, possibly showrss.info.
I have it working for 5 very different people (60+ people, gf etc), some have been using it in combination with XBIan for over 6 months already, no support needed from me.

if you Google "automated tv shows", the first hit is a guide I wrote, how to set up a "Netflix" experience using XBian and Flexget. The guide is a bit outdated since RC1 requires more steps to install and also Flexget made big changes since 1.2. But a working config.yml is already posted by me.

If you would follow that guide, I think it is even easier to set up compared to couchpotato and sickbeard, but to be honest I never used those two.
I started with newsgroups and NZBs years ago, when ISPs in NL still had very good retention (Casema). Switched to torrents later. used SabNZB early versions for a while. Then uTorrent in combination with their RSS support and fantastic episode filter. Flexget is just as great but even more automated and better!