[Carey]

oh well that's embarrassing... I've actually only ever used SB to keep up with shows I already had started; I had never actually added a new show through the web interface from scratch before. I did it this time and added a parent folder, then tried through kodi again on a different show and was able to get through the steps of selecting the parent folder and the quality/skipping preferences. I don't think there was anything else to select, but got an error after choosing my preferences: http://i.imgur.com/jv6AYgD.png

and debug log, this time I tried to go through it myself and trim down to just the time between sickrage being called and then failing:
http://pastebin.com/shADphQH

The log is showing a timeout waiting for the sickbeard server to reply with the add show request. The function that sends the add show request is the same for all server requests, including data to display shows. Did you try adding a show more than once, or just this one time?

Have you seen any errors when displaying the show list in the addon? Sometimes it displays show lists okay, sometimes errors. This would indicate a busy sickbeard server.

I have seen it where the sickbeard server can be so busy doing it's own Internet queries checking for new shows and downloading, that it times out queries from the it's Web API. Meaning it takes too long to respond when talking to add-ons.

So my question would be, have you tried to add a show more than once, now that you resolved the root directory path issue? Did any of the attempts have success? If they did, then I can look at changing the timeout delay and the number of attempts it tries when sickbeard is busy. If none have succeeded, then there is some other issue.

Please let me know.