Is there any way to have Sonarr NOT import but still be able to track when an episode is completed?
The way I have my system set up is:
I use qBittorrent both manually and using Sonarr with categories set to put TV Shows and Movies in separate folders in my “Library” on a shared hard drive. I use Plex to stream media across my home network from that library. I’ve set up Sonarr to use the right label in qBittorrent so my shows are going to the right place when Plex looks for updates.
My issue is that this setup works fine until you throw Sonarr’s importing into the mix, which creates another copy of the video files (Granted, in prettier folder structures). Now, I use private trackers so I want to keep seeding continually and I do not want Sonarr to remove my downloaded torrents because of this.
Is there any way to have Sonarr NOT do a file copy import and instead look at my Plex library to parse whether or not an episode exists? That would save me a ton of drive space and still make Sonarr able to know what I have in my library. Or is there a way to instead set it up to move the downloaded files to Sonarr friendly library folders and then have it change the “destination” folder in qBittorrent so it will seed the finished download from sonarr’s folders and have it remove the original folder the torrent downloaded to?
As it stands now, the only way I can think of doing it is to turn off Completed Download Handling, but then Sonarr will just show all files as missing even though it still downloads the files fine when I automatically or manually hit download from a Sonarr series’s page (and Plex updates and shows the episode because it’s already looking in the directory the files downloaded to).
Does it sound like I’m just not set up in a way that Sonarr really benefits from being used? Is there any other software for tracking and downloading series that would work better in my use case and is as easy to track with as Sonarr?