Any way to seed torrent files using blackholes?

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Hello everybody,

I’ve just switched to Sonarr, and I have to say that it is incredible; I’ll never go back.
There’s a huge problem for me though, and is that since I’m downloading my TV shows via blackhole, there is no way to seed them back.

I feel very uncomfortable doing is, so that I re-download the episodes just to share them, but this is going to make the automation that Sonarr provides kind of useless.

Is there any way I can seeds my torrent files without the need to download them a second time?

Thank you in advance.

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Not in the current release, but it will be possible in the next release.

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I see.

Thank you very much for your answer, I think I’ll hold on with the re-download process until the next release.

I really appreciate your work guys, Sonarr is really fantastic.

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Is there no way you can set up completed download handling and use one of the proper torrent client connections rather than blackhole?
Then sonarr will just hardlink the file in your library, and you will continue to seed until the target is met in your torrent client. Once the target is met, sonarr will remove the torrent and clean up the hardlink stuff.

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I use Synology DS to manage all my downloads. Hardlinking was the way I did when I was using SickRage, prior switching to Sonarr.

Before posting, I saw that there’s already a request on trello and github about supporting this client, but since it’s flagged as low priority I thought there wouldn’t be support for it anytime soon, that’s why I asked if it was possible via blackhole.

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Is there a specific reason you prefer synology ds over transmission or deluge? They are both fully supported by sonarr and available as packages.

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I tried both and I always used transmission before get a NAS, but I ultimately chose DS for its all-around integration with the Synology system.

Things like mail notification, http download support, iOS application which automatically grabs magnet links, a neat Chrome extension, watch folder, integrated search, etc, made my choice.

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If you have enough ram you could always run both. Ds for your manual stuff and transmission for sonarr. As sonarr is fully integrated after setup you would never go to the transmission gui (except for to odd occassion).

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I thought about that but ultimately found it redundant. My NAS is not a monster - it’s a “Play” series - and Sonarr and DS aren’t the only services it runs.

Plus, and worse, in my country, connection speed is a joke, therefore two torrent clients seeding different files would ulteriorly congest my already poor internet connection. It takes weeks for an episod to reach 1:1 :frowning: .

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