Now that lots of shows are published in streaming (Netflix, PrimeVideo, Disney…), we could “adapt” Sonarr to understand that we DO NOT always have the need to download files.
Today monitoring status are:
→ Unmonitored: Just grab Metadata, Don’t Download, Do not Show on Calendar
→ Monitored: Shows on Wanted, Shows on Calendar, Scan Files, and Try to Download
But what If, for some shows, I don’t have any intention of downloading? There are lots of shows that I need Sonarr exclusively to follow new episodes, airing dates, fetch/read metadata…
Would it be possible to make Monitoring be:
→ Unmonitored: Just grab Metadata, Don’t Download, Do not Show on Calendar
→ Monitored: Grab Metadata, Shows on Wanted, Shows on Calendar, Scan Files, and Try to Download
→ Follow only: Grab Metadata, Shows on Calendar, Never scans files or tries to download
What the issue today is:
The shows I follow on my streamings appear as “Wanted” and are scanned and expected to be download (from Sonarr point-of-view).
PLUS: maybe some kind of “watched” flag (like Plex or Emby has) would also help, because sometimes I only want to see which episodes of which shows I still have to watch on my backlog, be it in my MediaServer or my Streamings.