I understand that the activity items can populate from SAB. Maybe I have this view because I treat my TV Show acquisition setup as a TiVo - get, watch, delete.
And as such, I would love it there was a way to click a suppress icon so that an item in the activity could be supressed from showing.
If Sonarr isn’t importing files at all its going to keep things in activity, you can either remove it from SAB or wait for support for this media management style, but its not a priority for us: https://trello.com/c/PRYBRH2h/498-fire-and-forget-downloading
On a related topic, I have items in my Activites which show to have errors or uncompleted downloads, but when I find them in my SAB history they are completed and if I hover over the activity icon it says Quick Check OK. Can’t figure out why these completed items are listed in Sonarr with issues.
Hover over the icon in Activity to show what the error is, since the icon is a Disk (not a cloud) it is likely an import related issue.
Markus,
I’m not clear on what the Import Failure notification means. For example tonight, two different series in Sonarr had shows that aired, and Sonarr beautifully grabbed the associated NZB’s and passed them onto SABnzbd which then downloaded them successfully. However, both shows show import errors on the activity page. I’m not sure I understand the reason for that message.
It means Sonarr was unable to import the files, either the path SAB is reporting them at is not accessible, or there is another reason for the failure (debug log files would show the reason why it failed).
Since you don’t really want the files sorted you should disable Completed Download Handling on download client settings (advanced setting), I’m not 100% if the queue won’t show these items still though, since they may still come in from SAB’s history.
Thanks Markus, I turned off the Completed Download Handling, then had to enter a dummy directory a ‘0’ in the Drone Factory settings, but now I’m not getting Activity errors for every show downloaded.
Do many people really archive all the TV they watch? Seems odd to me as a watch and delete person.
Yeah, most people watch and archive, instead of watch and delete. Whether or not they’re rewatched ever is another question altogether.
I realize it would be an ultra-low priority, but as a watch and delete user, it’s odd to see in my calendar, prior shows showing as ‘missing’. From how I operate, it was handed off from Sonarr to SAB from where I have other scripts to handle everything, I don’t need Sonarr trying to track something after it passes it off to SAB. For my use-case, the shows appear as Missing, but they’re really not.
Minor thing I realize, just voicing a non-archivers thoughts on it.
fwiw, my setup is: Sonarr on the front end, SAB for downloading, then Watch Folder Actions to put where iFlicks automatically tags and puts into iTunes, then available through the house on AppleTV’s. I delete watched shows every week or so.
Support for that is already on Trello, but its not a priority: https://trello.com/c/PRYBRH2h/498-fire-and-forget-downloading (Linked in my first reply as well).
May I suggest a different workflow:
This will allow Sonarr to do it’s job as intended.
The Ignore Deleted Episodes function will automatically unmonitor deleted files, so they won’t show up as missing.
Thanks for this suggestion. I set SABnzbd to put the TV shows into a ‘Sonarr’ holding folder.
However, I’m not seeing where I tell Sonarr to put into into a specific series folder.
Thats the folder that you selected when adding the series. You’ll also need Completed Download Handling enabled so Sonarr will pick them up from SAB.
So I set it up as recommended above for one show to test, and it worked fine. But when I went to setup all my Series in that way, I found out that each Series has to have a different folder, too complicated, I don’t want to have to tell iFlicks to have a watch folder setup for each Series… Back to the old setup.
Sonarr is simply aimed at users who use something like Plex, maybe I’m an outlier, but at least it’s ok setting up the Drone Factory but disabling it.
Thanks for the tips.
iFlicks doesn’t support scanning nested directories? That’s a bummer.